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Their fecundity was such that, even with constant wars, their population exceeded to ability of limited land to support them. So the cities periodically packed the surplus on a ship and sent them off to seize land around the Mediterranean and Black Seas and establish their own city-state. As a result, with over 2,000 city-states spread through southern Europe, Greek culture was spread too. The names of cities today attest to this (eg Tri-polis = 3 cities = Tripoli; Neo-polis = new city = Naples

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