A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . tic school conceived of the world as onein substance, and held that natural phenomena are this school belonged Xenophanes, Parmenides, and philosophers were Heraclitus, Empedocles, and Anax- agoras. The theory of Py-thagoras (580-500 ) wasthat the inner substance ofall things is number. Hewas an ascetic aud a mystic,discipline of character beingthe primary object of hissystem. Colonies. — Most of the Greek colonies were establishedbetween 750 and 550 They were either independentcommunities or s
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . tic school conceived of the world as onein substance, and held that natural phenomena are this school belonged Xenophanes, Parmenides, and philosophers were Heraclitus, Empedocles, and Anax- agoras. The theory of Py-thagoras (580-500 ) wasthat the inner substance ofall things is number. Hewas an ascetic aud a mystic,discipline of character beingthe primary object of hissystem. Colonies. — Most of the Greek colonies were establishedbetween 750 and 550 They were either independentcommunities or settlements of the nature of garrisons. InSicily were both Dorian and Ionian communities, and thesouthwestern portion of Italy was termed Magna Graecia(Greater Greece). Gyrene, on the coast of Africa, was aDorian colony, and Corcyra was colonized by Corinth. Thenorthern shores of the Aegean and the Propontis, and thewhole coast of the Euxine, were strewn with Greek settle-ments. The Greek towns in western Asia Minor, especiallyMiletus, themselves sent out Ancient Greek Lamp PEEIOD II. —THE PLOUEISHING ERA OP GREECE CHAPTER XII THE PERSIAN WARS
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