The modern pizza was original invented in Naples,Italy but the word pizza is Greek in origin, derived from the Greek word Pektos meaning soild or clotted. The ancient Greeks covered their bread with oils, herbs and cheese. The first major innovation that let to flat bread pizza was the used of tomato as a topping. It was common for the poor of the area around Naples to add tomato to their yeast-based flat bread, and so the pizza began.