The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . o end of the Mediter-ranean. Among the more important of the colonies wereSyracuse in Sicily, Tarentum, Syharis, and Croton in Italy,Corcyra near the mouth of the Adriatic, Massilia (Marseilles)in Gaul, Olynthus in Thrace, Cyrene in Africa, Byzantium atthe Black Seas mouth, and Naucratis in Egypt (§ 32).^ 123. Method of Founding Colonies. — Many motives besidesthe commercial assisted t^ movement. Sometimes a cityfound its population growing too fast for its grain there was danger of class struggles, so that it seemedwell to ge

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The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . o end of the Mediter-ranean. Among the more important of the colonies wereSyracuse in Sicily, Tarentum, Syharis, and Croton in Italy,Corcyra near the mouth of the Adriatic, Massilia (Marseilles)in Gaul, Olynthus in Thrace, Cyrene in Africa, Byzantium atthe Black Seas mouth, and Naucratis in Egypt (§ 32).^ 123. Method of Founding Colonies. — Many motives besidesthe commercial assisted t^ movement. Sometimes a cityfound its population growing too fast for its grain there was danger of class struggles, so that it seemedwell to get rid of the more adventurous of the poorer some daring youth of a noble family longed for a moreactive life than he found at home, and was glad to become thehead of a new settlement on a distant frontier. In any case the oracle at Delphi was first consulted. If thereply was favorable, announcements were made and volunteers 1 Map study: on outline maps, or on the board, locate the districts and citiesmentioned in §§ 121 and

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