Much of Greece is covered by mountains. This made it hard to travel around by land in ancient times. But Greece is also surrounded by sea on three sides, and has many islands around the mainland. So the sea was always important to the ancient Greeks. They travelled by sea as much as they could. This meant they needed harbours to land in. Some of these harbours grew into ports - places where ships came from all over ancient Greece. Ports were especially useful to traders, because they could meet there to trade.

 

This book is part of a book series called Picture the Past .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Capstone Global Library Ltd .

Jane Shuter was a primary school teacher for many years before becoming a full-time writer of children's non fiction. Her fascination with ancient Egypt began at the age of eight, when she saw her first mummy. She has written many books on the subject.