Drds the correll Iduels . Identify the geographic characteristics that affected the ancient Greek civilizations of Minoa and Mycenae. Mountain ranges forced people to live along the coast. Rivers flowing down from the mountains often flooded cities. Surrounding seas allowed people to set up ports for trade. The location near the sea allowed people to interact with other civilizations. A lack of flat land made people dependent on trade to survive. Ancient Greek Civilizations

The Minoan civilization was located in Crete, an island. There they developed a large civilization that was based on navy and trade.

The Mycenae invaded Crete and adopted many habits from the Minoans. They developed trade throghout the Mediterranean, with this they built large ships and traveled to other places like Egypt.

The geographic characteristics influenced both civilizations heavily because they were located close to the sea and this pushed them to become good at trade by sea, which caused them to be sucessfull for a while and develop their own civilization.

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