Made by the Greek team for the e-Twinning project "The trees of friendship"

1. OLIVE TREES a part of our lives

3. His culture has been closely connected to the rise of Mediterranean empires and other advanced civilizations through out the ages.

4. A necessary requirement for Mediterranean population growth and increase. Because olive trees offered wealth and future food supplies to many civilizations, the nations of the Mediterranean sea became big societies.

6. That stability must extend for many years, since most ancient seedling olive trees required eight or more years before ever producing the first crop of fruit.

9. The first eleven Countries of Production (in nowadays) All located in the Mediterranean region Represent together 95% of the world production of olives . 6.160.100 Spain 1 3.149.830 Italy 2 2.400.000 Greece 3 1.800.000 Turkey 4 998.988 Syria 5 500.000 Tunisia 6 470.000 Morocco 7 318.339 Egypt 8 300.000 Algeria 9 280.000 Portugal 10 180.000 Lebanon 11 Production ( in tons ) Country Rank

10. See you in the next PowerPoint of Greek team. Have a happy e-twinning!