The civilization of Iraq had direct effects on the Near East region and indirectly on the far east and west. The civilization of Iraq was the civilization affecting the Near East region, and its influence in this area was more than the influence of Egypt, and from this path and other ways, the radiations of the civilization of Iraq were transferred to the countries of Greece. Greece in ancient Iraq.Geographically, the Balkan Peninsula was not only the region where Greek civilization was the predominant one. Rather, that civilization spread to wide territories that included the Balkan Peninsula and the Aegean Islands, including Crete and Ionia, which includes a group of Greek cities on the western coast of Asia Minor as well as from the colonies. Which spread from the ninth century BC onwards along the coasts of the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the straits, and wherever culture spread.As for the historical point of view, the Greeks were not the owners of the first civilization that appeared in the Balkan Peninsula, there was a Crete civilization that was known as the Aegean or Minian civilization and there is the Mycenaean civilization that spread on the Greek mainland.