HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Knossos, Peloponnese, Heracleion
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Topography helped to define the major territories which eventually divided greece into. The peloponnesus was to the south of the gulf of corinth, essentially a peninsula. The peloponnesus was the birthplace of sparta, as well as the site of olympia, where famous sporting games were played, consisting mostly of hills, mountains, and small valleys. The attic peninsula (or attica) was the northeast of the peloponnesus, the birthplace of. Athens, surrounded by mountains to the north and west and by the sea to the south and east. Northwest of attica was boeotia, with its main town of thebes, in central greece. To the north of boeotia was thessaly, which had the largest plains and had become a great grain and horses producer. To the north of thessaly lay macedonia, which was of little importance in greek history until 338 b. c. , when the greeks were defeated by a macedonian king philip ii.
