They had limited farmland, and with a burgeoning population which even endless internal wars could not control, they sent their surplus people by ship to sieze new land and establish their own city-states, resulting in over 2,000 Greek cities around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
Why did england wait until the 1600 to establish permanent colonies in America?
Improve the economy, and improve the labor shortage in the colonies.
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Britain
They did this to trade furs with Native Americans.
drfuo
The Greeks established colonies for trading with other city-states.
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The Greeks established colonies on the island of Sicily and the Latina established the southern Italian mainland
As with any empire, the Greeks set up colonies to establish a foothold in a new land. Once they had this foothold, they would assert their influence and create new trading partners and gain more natural resources.
They wanted to establish colonies because the pilgrams were being killed by the indies
What form of government did the colonists establish in the colonies themselves
he didn't "establish" any colonies
The Greeks planted there colonies there.
A form of government.
Southern italy
1500BC