... to build colonies in the eastern and western parts of the known world. The mass colonisation is one of the main methods of interaction between Greeks and Egyptians; but why did they choose to expand their already established boundaries? Greece in the 8th century was still very much a tribal society divided by an agonistic culture which resulted in competing city states. Only in times of great battles would several cities join allegiance against a common enemy and once victory was achieved the alliance would be depleted2. Economic problems seem, from literary evidence3, to have affected many of the cities and each dealt with it differently. The larger states that were suffering from over population and therefore land hunger were more likely to send communities off to build a colony. Historians have looked at contemporary works together with the amount of archaeological grave evidence and have concluded that ...

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