Both geography and climate greatly shaped Greek life and history since Greece's location on the Mediterranean allowed them to be leaders in trade (due to multiple ports of entry), and their climate was very conducive to growing things like olives and other foods that were very healthy.
Newspapers were modest single sheets because the printing press could not be used to print on both sides of a sheet of paper and interest in the form had not quite yet taken off.
Paul Revere used his profession as a mean of protest in the 1760s by creating engravings to promote colonial protests.