The Hello and welcome back to the history of ancient Greece.

Episode 14, colonization and the West.

We can date when the Polis began to develop because of colonization throughout the Mediterranean.

Since these colonies appeared in the form of the Polish.

That must have been the characteristic style of the city sending them out.

This immigration began about the middle 8th century BC

and continued for almost two centuries.

When it ended around 600 BC, the Greek world extended from eastern Spain in the west

to the eastern coast of the Black Sea in the east.

Essentially, the Greeks were scattered all across the Mediterranean and Black seas.

So much so that Plato later said that the Greeks sit like frogs around the pond.

The Greek colonies in Anatolia by this point were developed in such a way that they too

were able to colonize.

It should be noted that this was not like the migrations to Anatolia during the Dark Age,

which was sort of a ripple effect of people displaced from their lands due to the upheaval at the end of the Bronze Age.

These colonies were organized shifts of population,

from one community sent out to establish a new community.

In fact, with this renewed sense of a shared Greek identity and the spread of Greek ideas through literacy.

Colonization gave the Greeks an opportunity to export Greek culture to dozens of new lands.

But this should be thought of as some one-way street.

There was definitely some cultural reciprocity taking place.

Colonization promoted further this notion of pan-Hellenism

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