Ancient Greek Environment - Ancient Greece for Kids! - 1 views
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The combination of good sailing and lousy farming tends to make Greeks try to get a living from the sea.
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Garth Holman on 14 Oct 14How did these people make a living from the sea?
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There are several active volcanoes, and earthquakes are also very common. There is a nervous feeling that there could be a natural disaster at any time. This got the Greeks interested in a particular kind of religion which we call oracles. Oracles are the gods speaking to people, often in the form of minor earthquakes, and the gods tell the people what is going to happen in the future.
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There used to be quite a lot of trees on the hillsides of Greece, but people cut most of them down, and now the hills of Greece are mostly bare, or have little bushes on them.
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