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Peninsula

A piece of land almost surrounded by water

Mediterranean sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean

Loess

Deposit of wind sentiment

Taiga

Boreal forest (snow forest)

Minoans

Aegean civilization

Mycenaeans

Aegean civilization

City states

a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.

Cultural hearth

Center of the city
Aristarchus

Astronomer
Herodontus

Historian