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They started colonies because they wanted more villages, food, and water.
They were very prolific and as most farms were very small, they could not be divided between multiple male children. So the city-states periodically sent out their surplus populations to seize new land around the Mediterranean and Black Sea littorals and establish new cities, resulting in over 2,000 new cities.
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