The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . THE GREEK PENINSULA SCALE OF MILES 0 10 20 40 50 60 70 22° LoDfe-ilude. §85] INFLUENCE OF GEOGRAPHY 99 d. These early seekers found valuable new things withineasy reach. Fortunately, this most European of all Europeanlands lay nearest of all Europe to the old civilizations of Asiaand Egypt. Moreover, it faced this civilized East rather thanthe barbarous West. On the other side, toward Italy, thecoast of Greece is cliff or marsh, with only three or four goodharbors. On the east, however, the whole line is broken by

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