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They farmed it, growing grain, fruit, olives, vegetables and livestock to feed themselves. They mined it, principally silver at Sunion, which gave them the initial capital to build the fleet of warships which helped defeat the Persian invasion, and then establish the naval superiority which formed the basis of their empire in the 5th Century BCE.
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Did ancient Greece use donkeys to get around?
They used them as beasts of burden.
What type of irrigation systems did Ancient Greece use?
Levees and they used a crop rotation!
What a ancient Greece coin is called?
They started to use coinage in the later 7th Century BCE.
How did ancient farmers use the water of the Indus river system to grow crops by?
4. How did ancient farmers use the water of the Indus river system to help grow crops?
What did temples in ancient Greece look like?
They usually had a room in which the statue of the god was maintained, and a portico with columns, frescos and a tiled roof. They walls and columns and god were gaudily painted with red and blue and other colours, unlike the austere copies of Greek buildings of today.
Is there gold in Greece?
Ancient Greece did use gold.
Did ancient Greece use cattle?
No they did not.
Did ancient Greece use calligraphy?
No
3 contributions from ancient Greece to the world?
*Ancient greece gave us a democracy * Ancient greece gave use the hippocratic vote *They gave us the Olympic games
What did Ancient Greece use marble for?
building.
What do they use as a discus in ancient Greece?
cats
How does the deep valley effect ancient Greece?
ancient greece was effected by deep valleys because it use to be under ground
What type of battle stratiegies did ancient Greece use?
the battle formation that ancient Greece used was called the phalanx formation.
Why is Ancient Greece not around anymore?
The ancient era of Greek history ended about 1500 years ago, so Ancient Greece became Dark Age Greece, then Mediaeval Greece and now modern Greece. The descriptive words we use have changed. The land remains, as do relics of the ancient period.
Why do they use olive oil in Greece?
because olive oil was made in the ancient Greece
What were things that ancient Greece trade?
ancient Greece use to trade is food, animals and mostly plants. THANK YOU for choosing answers.com.
How did the ancient Greece use there olives?
used it for food
