Ancient Greece

Today in Western Civ, we talked about Ancient Greece. It was pretty interesting with all the things Mr. Schick taught us. I learned that Mesopotamia's river's are the Tigris and Euphrates, Egypt's river is the Nile River, India's river is the Indus river, and China's river is the Huang He River. More facts that we learned is that 1400 islands off the coast of Greece. It is considered a peninsula because it has water on all three sides. This is important because then you can trade, build ships, fish, etc. The most important fact that we learned was that Mediterranean means middle of earth. A cool fact we learned was that it was faster to sail around Greece that it was to go right across it. The Adriatic sea is west of Greece, and the Aegean sea is east of Greece, but these two seas are part of the Mediterranean, but just separated into two sections. The Island of Crete is south of Greece, and the capital of Greece is Athens.