please help! thanks!
2007-09-06 16:36:06 · 3 answers · asked by JEYMO 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
About 700B.C. the Greeks started colonies along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in what is now southern France, southern Italy, and western Turkey. These city states like Naples and Syracuse in Italy, Marseilles in France, and Ephesus in Turkey became very important places. Greek colonies in southern Italy, especially Sicily were called "Magna Graecia" by the later Romans. Besides Sicily, Greek colonies stretched up the southwest coast of Italy like at Posidonia and Neapolis (now Naples). The most famous towns in Sicily were Syracuse, Agrigentum, and Messana (now Messina). In France in what is now Provence and the Riviera the most important place was Massilia (now Marseilles). There were even Greek colonies on the eastern coast of Spain. The Greeks called their country "hellas". This included mainland Greece as well as their overseas colonies.
2007-09-08 07:02:39 · answer #1 · answered by harveymac1336 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marseilles in France. Sicily in Italy
2007-09-06 18:56:34 · answer #2 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the greeks never expanded that far EVER. Alexander moved east, not west.if they did, they would have bumped into Rome and back then the Romans would have been slaughtered. they moved from the agean peninsula and moved east and not west.
2007-09-06 16:47:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋