What is the difference between the occupations of ancient Greece and the ancient East?

The civilization of the Ancient East was, as a rule, agricultural in the valleys of large rivers, while the ancient Greeks lived on the peninsula, on the islands in the west of the peninsula of Asia Minor. They did less farming.

They were also more active in shipbuilding and maritime trade. The Egyptians and Babylonians sailed on the seas, but not on such a scale as the Greeks, who mastered many territories, from Spain in the west to the Colchis lowlands in the Transcaucasus in the east.

The Greeks developed pottery and the manufacture of metal products.

Due to the peculiarities of the political system, they had developed philosophy and oratory.