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Podcast: The History of Ancient Greece
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014 Colonization and the West

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:49:19
Publish Date: 2016-07-03 19:00:00
Description:

In this episode, we discuss the causes of colonization (shortage of land, trade, and civil strife); the Greek emigration westward into Magna Graecia (southern Italy and Sicily), the coasts of southern France and eastern Spain, and on the islands of Corsica and Sardinia during the 8th, 7th, and 6th centuries BC; the development of the trireme by the Phoenicians/the Corinthians in order to protect their maritime trade networks from roving bands of pirates looking for ships laden with exotic goods; and their growing tensions in the central and western Mediterranean Sea with the Etruscans and the Phoenicians (specifically the Carthaginians) until around 550 BC

Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2016/07/014-colonization-and-west.html

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