The latitude of Athens, Greece is 37.983810, and the longitude is 23.727539. Athens, Greece is located at Greece country in the Cities place category with the gps coordinates of 37° 59' 1.7160'' N and 23° 43' 39.1404'' E. Athens, Greece elevation is 72 meters height, that is equal to 236 feet.
In the beginning of the age of discovery, England and France were looking for a new path to get to Asia to trade. But after they found the America’s and the West Indies, colonization for more for power. The more colonies each country could establish, the more power the country would have. A lot of the colonies were also making the home countries lots of money from the fur trade and from cash crops and from the Colombian exchange.