Ancient Greece and Rome 1200 B.c.e.-476 C.e.: Literature - Research Article from Arts and Humanities Through the Eras

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 171 pages of information about Ancient Greece and Rome 1200 B.c.e.-476 C.e..

Ancient Greece and Rome 1200 B.c.e.-476 C.e.: Literature - Research Article from Arts and Humanities Through the Eras

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The Changing Greek World.

In the years after 700 B.C.E. the Greek world underwent social and economic change. The poleis, or city-states, now emerged fully from the so-called "Dark Ages" which had followed the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization. They began to send out colonies; about 770 B.C.E., the leading cities on the island of Euboea—Eretria and Chalcis—established a trading post on the island of Ischia off the coast of Naples. About twenty years later, Chalcis—her partnership with Eretria dissolved into enmity—planted a colony on the Italian mainland, at Cumae. It was the first of a host of colonies, and within the next two and a half centuries, Greek settlements—each of them a nascent city-state—appeared in Italy, Sicily, southern France, north-eastern Spain, as well as the north Aegean and the shore of...

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