This is false!
An important part of the Greek civilization was the island of Crete, which is not contiguous with the rest of the Peloponnese. Additionally there were other important sites of the Greek culture on other Islands in the Aegean Sea and in Turkey - we still find their ruins and remains today.
1940s. In the United States, where Ten Thousand Villages (formerly Self Help Crafts) began buying needlework from Puerto Rico in 1946, and SERRV began to trade with poor communities in the South in the late 1940s. The first formal “Fair Trade” shop which sold these and other items opened in 1958 in the USA.
Samarkand is smaller in size than Tashkent.