Ancient Greece was a very mountainous area, so the people mainly used the sea as a way of feeding themselves and earning money. Mountains cover about 80 percent of the land. The country had little natural fresh water with only a few small rivers running through it, so it was not suitable land for intensive agriculture.
This decision of the U.S. Supreme Court completely differed to the “Plessy v. Ferguson” case, as their main goal was to make segregation unjustifiable. Basically the BVB was all about equal rights.