The city-states shipped surplus populations off to seize land and establish new cities for themselves.
The colonies, established around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, were independent city-states and each had to make it own living, They traded with their mother cities, and locally.
The Mediterranean littoral. The Black Sea littoral. The Aegean Sea littoral.
they supplied them with pottery and stone vases
The Greek world was spread around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
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Nearly 2,000 spread around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
They entrenched Greek culture and power far beyond the cradle of the Grek peninsula and spread it around the Mediterranean and lack Seas.
In ancient times, groups of adventurous and profit-minded Greeks established colonies throughout the Mediterranean Basin and Black Sea coastal areas for primarily economic purposes. These colonies were mainly established during the Archaic Period of Greece, that is, in the 700s and 600s BC (or, BCE).
To avoid social disruption, when a Greek city-state became over-populated, the surplus were loaded on ships and sent off to seize new land around the Mediterranean or Black Sea and found a new city-state of their own.
There was no Greek empire. The Greek world comprised hundreds of independent city-states strung around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
All around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. They were especially prolific in Sicily and southern Italy, so much so that this region became known as Magna Græcia, "Great Greece".