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Sur Face Of Greece: Agriculture. Only about 29% of the land sur face of Greece is arable. Yet almost one half thi population depends on farming for a livelihood As a result of government division of large estate before World War II, and of the practice o dividing the land among all the children of ; landowner, Greece is a land of small, individual!) owned farmsteads. These are almost all sub divided into a number of widely dispersed plots Though holdings are too small and fragmentei o be farmed efficiently, the government has bstained from forced collectivization, and there as been little response to its legislation for ohmtary land consolidation.
In the prehistoric era ideas came to Greece from the Near East, and people came from the north; the amalgam laid the foundation for historical Greek culture. Aegean progress was slower than that of the Near East, partly because Greece did not provide as rich crops as the Nile and the Tigris-Euphrates did, and also be-rause Greece was subjected to several invasions from the north.
Heolithie Period (6000-2800 B. C.). Man has Sved in Greece since Paleolithic times. Villages of the 7th millennium B. c. that did not make pottery have been found in Thessaly and Macedonia.
In the second place, Greece was more conservative in outlook than the new cities in the East. It had no vast metropolis like Alexandria or Antioch, and the political struggles of the period demonstrate the obstinate attachment of Greece to the city-state ideal. In literature Greece remained attached to the traditional forms and did not actively participate in the innovations of the Alexandrian school of poets (Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Aratus of Soli). |
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