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they started colonies because there wasn't enough farmland to feed their people

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The greeks created colonies because the did not want to be lonley.

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Their breeding was so prolific and their land so limited they shipped off their surplus population to seize land and form their own city-states.

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When did the Greek establish colonies?

In ancient Greece.


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A place to dispose of their surplus populations.


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