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The Ionian Sea is south of the Adriatic Sea. Greece is a mountainous peninsula, and mountains covered 3/4 of Greece. Greece also had many good many skilled sailors and shipbuilders. Greece also had many fertile valley's. Even though they covers one quarter of the peninsula only 20% is suitable for farming. The Greek diet consist of grains, grapes, and olives. if there was a lack of resources it let to Greek colonization. The weather there was also beautiful. During the winter it was mid 40s and in the summer it was in the low 80s. There was also this story teller who lived during the "Greek Dark ages" . He composed stories and he would memorize them , even though he was blind, and would tell them to people. Some think that homer was a mythical creature.