1) In what way have the landforms in the Balkan Peninsula shaped the cultures of the region?

Balkan peninsula is a crossroad of civilizations. No historical phenomenon shows as much adaptation to geographic congestion as the arrangement of ancient civilizations in the Balkan Peninsula. After the alternating advances and retreats, which came as a result of extraordinary historical events and were sometimes irrelevant to geographic congestion, the spread of a civilization has largely remained in natural disruption.

Explanation:

the economic difference between the three colonial regions. shipbuilding, whaling, fishing, and trapping where also main factors to the economy. the southern regional colonies economy was based on sugarcane, rice, cotton, tobacco, and indigo.