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With thier colonies and other peoples and cities around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
They had limited farmland, and with a burgeoning population which even endless internal wars could not control, they sent their surplus people by ship to sieze new land and establish their own city-states, resulting in over 2,000 Greek cities around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
The city-states shipped surplus populations off to seize land and establish new cities for themselves.
In ancient Greece.
The overpopulated Greeks shipped off their surplus populations to seize new land and establish their own city-states. Over 2,000 were established around the Mediterranean and Black Sea littorals.
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Even with constant wars amogst each other, their fuecudity meant that their sparse agricultural land could not suppost a burgeoning population, so the city-states sent shipped out their surplus populations to sieze new land and establish new city-states, stretching around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
They were trading stations spread around the central and western Mediterranean Sea.
In most of the world - just around the Mediterranean.
They were so fertile that even constant wars could not control their population. They had limited land, so they periodically embarked the surplus on ships and sent them off to seize new land and establish their own city-states around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, resulting in over 2,000 Greek city-states.