Surplus populations were shipped to sites around the Mediterranean and Black Seas to seize land and establish new city-states for themselves.
The other solution was waging endless wars with each other, the casualties reducing the numbers of people. However they were such great breeders in a pre-TV age that the first option had to be resorted to sooner or later, resulting in over 2,000 city-states being established.
you can expand the area that the population grows on, or manage the population by controlling the amount of children born or shortening the life expectancy.
Bolintin-Deal's population is 6,235.
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First, Greeks fish a good deal. Second, they sail trade routes from one city to another, both Greek cities and elsewhere, all over the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, and make a living buying and selling things.
A population of ethnic Greeks.
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Greeks were defeated (and won) over three thousand years. When exactly did you have in mind?
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As their population outgrew the land they had taken in the Levant they turned to trade to expand their economies. They were taken over by the Persians, then the Greeks under Alexander, and were absorbed into the populations in the Middle East.
The Greeks stood their ground and fought for their freedom against the Persians. Their victory caused the Greeks many lives.