Unlike the native territory of Ancient Greece the ancient Roman homeland

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How might have Greece's geography contributed to its development of sea trade with Egypt and Phoenicia?

Greece is a peninsula connected to land in the North and open to Seas on all other sides. The hilly nature of the terrain made movement on land more difficult than by sea. The Aegean Sea and the Easter Mediterranean were dotted with small islands which soon became Greek colonies taking the Greek further to the South and the East. This naturally took them to Phoenicia and Egypt on the African coast. Any voyage in the Mediterranean took the traders and sailors either to West Asia or Africa. Geographical location and proximity helped the Greeks develop contact with these places.

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