jan 1, 750 BC - Start of Greek Colonization 2nd half of the 8th century BC

Description:

Southern Italy and Sicily (Naples, Syracuse)
Coastline of Asia Minor(Miletus, Ephesus)
North Aegean and Black Sea(Byzantium)
Cote Azure(Marseille, Nice)

Reasons:
1. Search for sources of metal
2. Acquiring land for a new polis

These colonies usually had their own Metropolis= Mother polis from where the colonists came and which financed them. However, the colony was largely independent, linked to the metropolis by "bonds of cult"

Rivals: Phoenicians(Main colony was Carthage, also colonies in Sicily, southern Spain, ...)

Main consequence: the Export of Greek culture, religion and art

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