Question

Which impact did mountains have on the development of Greek city-states?

A. They isolated the city-states and made them independent.

B. They helped increase trade between the city-states.

C. They had fertile so people farmed in the mountains.

D. People in the mountains worked as sailors and merchants.

Answer 1

A. They isolated the city-states and made them independent.

Mountains broke the land into separate valleys and regions, limiting travel and communication and encouraging the development of independent, self-governing city-states (poleis).