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Migration of the Greek Colonization - Outline
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Introduction
A. The era that spanned from 2000 B.C to 700 B.C was characterized by the
establishment of Polis
B. The polis served as the main drivers of the economic activities that occurred during
Greek colonization
C. The political and social structures that were used for managing the new cities
across the Mediterranean

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Characteristics of Migration during the Greek Colonial Period
A. Commerce and maintenance of trade routes
1. The trading stations had an essential role as an outpost of the culture of
the Greeks.
2. These trade routes enabled the introduction of the Great Art to the East
culture
B. Opposition to the Political systems
1. To attain independence of a given polis,fierce defending took place,
and the aspect of unification was something that was almost unheard
of among the ancient Greeks.
C. Slavery
1. Slavery being a usual practice in Greece it made people move from
one city to another.
2. It was possible for people to move from one place to another to buy
slaves.

III.

The Factors Responsible For High Rate of Migration during the Period
A. Connections among Crete and Mycenaean and With Sicily, Italy and Egypt
1. The relationship with Mycenaean started when the Greeks borrowed the
Minion
2. Civilization
3. The connection of Greek and Sicily and the southern part of Italy were in
that they were the colonies of the Greeks.
B. Greek Polis-System of Governance
1. There were independent states referred to as polis where each had their
political government.
2. The city states had a type of government that was Oligarchy, monarchy or
democratic government structure.
C. Transportation Routes That Was Provided By the Aegean Sea
1. The sea offered routes to Asia Minor, Iberia as well as to the italic
Peninsula.
2. Most of the foreigners who came to Greece for trade used this transport
routes.
3. It posted political disputes between Turkey and Greece over the ownership
of the main islands within the sea.

IV.

The Consequence of the Migration of the Greek Colonization
A. The spread of Cultural and Religious Values and Practices of the Greeks
1. The primary cultures that were shared in Europe are the architecture of
the Greeks.

2. The Greek architecture is characterized by temples as well as theaters
where this is seen in Europe especially Rome in Italy
B. Establishment of Highly Diverse Societies
1. It was as a result of migration whereby the polis in Greece had their
governance with their social structures that were different from another
state.
C.

An Efficient Economic System
1. There was the formation of an economic system that was efficient
that led to the growth of various regions within this period.
2. The regions where trade took place emerged as trading centers, and
thus migration fostered efficient economic systems

V.

Conclusion
A. Therefore the successful attainment of the colonization goals of the areas that
established the Greek empire depended on the people’s movement from and to the
polis.

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Running head: MIGRATION OF THE GREEK COLONIZATION

Migration of the Greek Colonization
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Migration of the Greek Colonization
Greek Colonization
The colonization of the Greek was a colonial expansion organized by the Archaic Greeks
into the Pontus as well as the Mediterranean Sea. The colonization era started around 200 BC
to700BC. It was characterized by Polis establishment, which acted as the primary drivers of the
economic activities, which took place within this time in Greece. The colonization varied from
the Dark Age’s migration, which entailed directions that were organized starting from the
metropolis rather than simple tribe’s movement that featured the earlier migrations.
Several colonies founded within this period turned to be strong cities and later switched
to independent metropolis. The social and political structures used in the management of these
new cities across the Coasts of the Black, and the Mediterranean seas depended on the efficiency
of the trading posts (K Szamalek, 2014). Nevertheless, the analysis of literature and historical
texts portray that migration acted as the primary driver of the Greek empire efforts in spreading
its culture, political and economic systems as well as other practices in the various parts of the
work through conquest. Various characteristics exist of the migration in this period, the factors
responsible for the migration as well as its consequences.
Characteristics of Migration during the Greek Colonial Period
Commerce and Maintenance of Trade Routes
The Greek area was faster to foster development than other parts of Europe. There were
fixed settlements referred to as the Polis, which emerged in Greek before any other place. A
large part of South East Europe was dominated by these cities and formed the primary source of
colonies that developed in other areas. They also acted as centers of the commerce where trade

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was often made in most of the remote regions among the polis as well as the settlement, which
were formed to serve as intermediate stations.
The presence of commerce initiated the regular movements to and from the cities of
Greek as with the aim of maintaining their commercial centers as well as maintaining the trade
routes that they used (Freeman, 2014). Those involved in the commerce and trade activities; the
merchants and the artisans of the various goods and services, were from the different parts of the
world for example from Egypt and Italy.
The trading stations had an essential role as an outpost of the culture of the Greeks. With
the trade, the Greek goods such as bronzes, pottery, gold and silver vessels, wine, and olive oil as
well as some textiles were traded for other luxury items and some of the exotic raw materials
which were worked by the craftsmen of the Greeks. The Greeks formed trading enclaves within
their local communities such as the Al-Mina (Giaime et al., 2016). Also within the Nile delta,
there was a port town called Naukratis that acted as a commercial headquarter for the Greek
traders situated in Egypt.
Besides, there were maritime trade routes well established within the Mediterranean Sea
ports. These routes made it easier for other foreigners to come to Greece mainly for trade. There
were also other trade routes that were opened across Asia and went to the Indus valley as well as
Afghanistan. These trade routes were opened after the military campaign of Alexander the great.
These trade routes were essential in that they enabled the introduction of the Great Art to
the East culture as well as created an exposure of the Greek artists to several other artistic styles
and method such as those of the precious stones (McIlvaine et al., 2015). The migration was also
fostered by trade and commerce where the Greek artists were moving to Etruria specifically in

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Caere a city on the Italian coast. Therefore this depicts that the business and commerce highly
characterized the migration of the Greek movement.
Opposition to the Political systems
The migration in the Greek colonial period was also characterized by the movement of
citizens from the cities that were banished as a result to political systems. In Greek, there were
several independent states named the polis. It was a unique situation unlike in other societies in
this era since others were tribal kingdoms or a kingdom that ruled an enormous territory. The
geography of Greece was in such a way that it was divided by rivers, mountains as well as hills
which made the nature of the country. Looking from another dimension, Greece was one people
since they all had a similar religion, the same language as well as shared the primary culture
(Zuchtriegel, 2017). They also understood their tribal origins and could even categories their
states by the tribes.
However, regardless of the existence of all these high relationship levels, it seemed as if
they did not have a positive effect on Greeks politics. To attain independence of a given polis,
fierce defending took place, and the aspect of unification was something that was almost unheard
of among the ancient Greeks.
During the invasion of Greece by the Persian a second time, there were some of the citystates that decided they would defend Greece, a number of them were neutral but unfortunately
as soon as the Persian defeat was over, the city-states that had formed allies started fighting
amongst themselves (Zuchtriegel, 2017). Thus, the fighting fostered migration of the citizens of
these independent states to migrate to other peaceful areas in the course of the Greek colonial
period, and therefore this characterized the migration.

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The Greek political system may be said that it had some peculiarities. The primary
abnormality of the early Greek political system was first in its fragmentary nature, and it did not
portray to have any evidence of having a tribal origin. Second is the specific focus of the urban
centers that were within several small states. The proof of these peculiarities are also shown
through the colonies that the country formed all over within the Mediterranean sea, which could
refer to a certain polis being their mother and were depending on the founding states (Connor,
2017). These were also forms of political systems that led to the migration of various city-states
hence characterizing the migration within the colonial period.
Slavery
The aspect of slavery also characterized the migration during the Greek colonial per...