Most land suited to agriculture is found along the coastal plains and in a few area of the Peloponnese.Within the sparsely populated mountainous interior, many communities were isolated from each other, and even more so from the more inhabited coastal regions.This isolation led to societies that developed in very different ways. Climate, too, played a role in increasing social isolation. Mountain passes, blocked by snow in the extremely harsh winters, cut off communication even between neighboring valleys for several months of the year.The spring melt made the few tracks impassable for a further period. With pastoral land rare, the great plain of Thessaly was the only place for raising horses, which made Thessalians the strongest in cavalry. For much of the rest, travel and battling on foot was the norm. [download]
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