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Today in Mr. Schick’s western civilization class, we looked at a power point on the ancient civilization ancient Greece. The timeline states that in 2000 BC, the Minoan civilization prospered on the island of Crete, in 1500 BC the Mycenaean culture thrived on Greek mainland, in 1200 BC the Trojan War took place, in 750 BC the Greek city-states flourished, in 479 BC Greece triumphed in the Persian Wars, in 334 BC Alexander the Great began to build his empire. In ancient times, Greece was a collection of lands in which Greek-speaking people lived. The terrain of the mainland consisted of mostly mountains and jutted out into the Mediterranean Sea as a peninsula. Three-fourths of the Greek mainland was covered in mountains, while one-fourth was tiny but fertile valleys. There are about 2000 islands in the Aegean and Ionian seas. Because of the lack of fertile farmland, ancient Greece could never support large population sizes and only ever had about 1 million people living there.