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Initially they arrived as nomads from the east, and first settled in the peninsula today known as Greece.

They were such prolific breeders that the poor countryside could not support their expanding population so they sent out the surplus populations to settle elsewhere - first the Islands of the Aegean and Asia Minor. This was progressively extended further - to the Black Sea littoral and west to Sicily, Italy, Sardinia, Corsica, southern France, Spain and North Africa.

Some of these daughter-cities, established by the cities of Greece, themselves became overpopulated and sent out colonies of their own. The periphery of the Mediterranean and Black seas was dotted with a couple of thousand independent Greek city-states.

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Zoie Bergstrom

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