still blows my mind they reached alacant and valencia!
Aegeansunset12 on
Turkey in shambles
FuckTheTile on
They were colonies yes, but that doesn’t mean this was ‘colonialism’ which usually describes a certain period of history
HarveyBrown6666 on
Even colonization is a stretch. Sometimes they settled, sometimes they took land through war, sometimes they had partnerships with locals, sometimes they lived in trade communities at the graces of local lords. Sometimes they were used as leverage by locals in deals with Tyre or Carthage, sometimes they ran protection rackets, sometimes they needed protection. Painting a map with red doesn’t make it all Greek settlement. The reality was far more complicated.
aule_maiar on
This is imperialism. Not colonialism.
azhder on
Pushing it. A single city, like Marseille,not such a wide area in many places, and then painted over half of Macedonia. I know it’s a map from Wikipedia, but compare it with a map from another Encyclopedia and it’s not the same https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Colonization/
DrettTheBaron on
A lot of these stretch pretty far inland, Hemeroskopeion was by all accounts a small city with little influence on it’s immediate area. Much less settling an area the size of the Peloponnese.
Really, most of these should be dots instead of swathes of colonies.
Magna graecia, even during the highest period of Greek settlement, was a collection of cities along the coast while the interior was controlled by various Italic tribes.
KaleAggravating3795 on
The Greeks won’t like this. They believe they have a right to all those places but don’t ask how they got them first.
yuckyucky on
This is pre Alexander
Ok-Moose-992 on
The Ukrainian city of Odessa was named after a Greek colony in the same area
Perfect-Slip7041 on
Coast huggers.
Incvbvs666 on
If Linkin‘ Park-In the End were a map (I’ve tried so hard, I’ve gone so far, but in the end it doesn’t even matter.)
Practical-Tooth-2217 on
Neapolis shube in red as well
mj_outlaw on
Wololo
Plastic_Egg6167 on
Why are Greeks so attracted to the sea?
RemarkableSprinkles on
What’s the approximate timeline for this?
PoepseksMasterBeer on
Ancient Greece is like Roman Empire V1.0 in about everything
Complete_Dud on
Do I see the Croat island of Korcula there…?
DrFrosthazer on
Not giving a fuck about deep mainland is the way to go. Coast only baby.
Gnoccho1 on
I still blame the Greek for all the society issue
Damned colonizers!
Future_Adagio2052 on
are we still doing the „x colonialism“ posts?
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Colonization. Colonialism is far more nebulous.
still blows my mind they reached alacant and valencia!
Turkey in shambles
They were colonies yes, but that doesn’t mean this was ‘colonialism’ which usually describes a certain period of history
Even colonization is a stretch. Sometimes they settled, sometimes they took land through war, sometimes they had partnerships with locals, sometimes they lived in trade communities at the graces of local lords. Sometimes they were used as leverage by locals in deals with Tyre or Carthage, sometimes they ran protection rackets, sometimes they needed protection. Painting a map with red doesn’t make it all Greek settlement. The reality was far more complicated.
This is imperialism. Not colonialism.
Pushing it. A single city, like Marseille,not such a wide area in many places, and then painted over half of Macedonia. I know it’s a map from Wikipedia, but compare it with a map from another Encyclopedia and it’s not the same https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Colonization/
A lot of these stretch pretty far inland, Hemeroskopeion was by all accounts a small city with little influence on it’s immediate area. Much less settling an area the size of the Peloponnese.
Really, most of these should be dots instead of swathes of colonies.
Magna graecia, even during the highest period of Greek settlement, was a collection of cities along the coast while the interior was controlled by various Italic tribes.
The Greeks won’t like this. They believe they have a right to all those places but don’t ask how they got them first.
This is pre Alexander
The Ukrainian city of Odessa was named after a Greek colony in the same area
Coast huggers.
If Linkin‘ Park-In the End were a map (I’ve tried so hard, I’ve gone so far, but in the end it doesn’t even matter.)
Neapolis shube in red as well
Wololo
Why are Greeks so attracted to the sea?
What’s the approximate timeline for this?
Ancient Greece is like Roman Empire V1.0 in about everything
Do I see the Croat island of Korcula there…?
Not giving a fuck about deep mainland is the way to go. Coast only baby.
I still blame the Greek for all the society issue
Damned colonizers!
are we still doing the „x colonialism“ posts?