Geography

geographic isolation vs. cultural diffusion
features and their effects

the features of land, water, ect... has to do with the earth and its suroundings
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Mountains in Greece made it hard to trade.(geographic isolation)
In greese the mountains made a lot seperate city-states.
city-states - a city and its surrounded lands functions as an independent political unit.
In Greese the out line of the coast made natural harbors made it easy to trade at. Also when the Spartans toke on the Persin they fought at the flood gate so they would not get attack at all angles in funneled the Persins in to the Spartans falinkes.
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The first civiliztions were next to rivers for easy access to water.(ex: NIle, Indus, Tigris-Euphrates, Huang-He)
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geograghy in war

In some battles the geography helped the countries that knew the territory and used it for there Advantage like the battle of stelengrad.
the geograghy gave cover to Armies the in alot of battles times.