Notice that she has given it dimension by drawing mountains. The cultivation of olives was essential to Greek life. The olive had many uses as mentioned before. Use the time for today's lesson finding out about olive cultivation. The encyclopedia is one possible source, but there are many other possibilities in books about the plant kingdom, and also in sources such as a Bible Dictionary.
Some olive trees live to be two thousand years old.
The fruit must be prepared after harvesting. If you have a kerosene lantern, you can wait until dark, and show the student what a room lit by lamplight was like. Eat the meal by lamplight and tell one of the stories about the wanderings of Odysseus while the food is shared.