Today is class in class I learned that "terra" means earth and "Mediterranean" means middle of the earth. Create is the largest island in Greece, but Greece did not have much open, flat land. In Greece they mainly grew grapes, grains, and olives but they had limited natural resources so they needed to trade a lot. The word "arable" means goof for farming. In Greece almost 75% of the land is mountain, they had many chilled sailors and ship builders. There is almost 1,400 islands in the Adriatic, Ionian, and Aegean seas. Fertile valleys cover one quarter of the peninsula, only about 20% is suitable for farming. Their influence began around 2000 BCE. Mycenae is located on a rocky ridge and protected by a 20 foot thick wall. Mycenaean kings dominated Greece from 1600-1200 BCE, controlled trade in the region. 1400 BCE, Mycenaean's culture and language. Around 1200 BCE the mysterious "sea people" began to invade Mycenae, and burnt the palace so the Dorian's moved into this war, torn region. Dorian's were far less advanced. The trade based country economy collapsed. Writing disappeared for 400 years.