Ancient Greece Objective 1 Vocabulary

Question	Answer
Aegean Sea	A small section of the Mediterranean Sea that surrounds the eastern part of Greece Image: Aegean Sea (binary/octet-stream)
Mediterranean Sea	A body of water that surrounds the southwestern part of Greece Image: Medsea (binary/octet-stream)
Chaparral	A biome/climate zone that experiences hot, dry summers followed by mild winters
Mainland	The main part of land in a country or continent, not including the islands that belong to it Image: Mainland Greece P1 Map (binary/octet-stream)
Peninsula	An area of land that is mostly surrounded by water, but is still connected to a larger piece of land Image: Peninsula Aerial By Jl Web 630x420 (binary/octet-stream)
Mount Olympus	The largest mountain in Greece, where many people in ancient Greece thought the gods lived Image: Mount Olympus E1500861345324 (binary/octet-stream)
Maritime	A word that refers to anything that occurs in the sea, including traveling by sea
City-State	An independent city with its own government, that is separate from the countries that surround it Image: Download (binary/octet-stream)
Coastline	A line that forms a boundary between where land ends and an ocean or other body of water starts Image: 220px Byron Bay Bay (binary/octet-stream)
Colony	A place where a group of people have moved and set up a permanent community in a new place
Colonization	The process of creating a colony

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