. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools. hing the fleece. Then Jasontook the golden fleece oi the ram, and tied with Medea backto Greece. Such is the interesting legend which the imagi-nations of the old Greeks built up from the wondrous talesof their earliest traders in the Black Sea. 122. Results of the Movement.— The most important re-sult of this 200 years of colonization was to widen the mean-ing of the term Hellas. It no longer meant only Greece itself,the .Egean islands, and coast of Asia Minor; it now includedall the Greek cities which clung about the edge of
. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools. hing the fleece. Then Jasontook the golden fleece oi the ram, and tied with Medea backto Greece. Such is the interesting legend which the imagi-nations of the old Greeks built up from the wondrous talesof their earliest traders in the Black Sea. 122. Results of the Movement.— The most important re-sult of this 200 years of colonization was to widen the mean-ing of the term Hellas. It no longer meant only Greece itself,the .Egean islands, and coast of Asia Minor; it now includedall the Greek cities which clung about the edge of the Medi-terranean and the Black Seas. In a sense, the world aboutthe Mediterranean became a Greek world, except within theregion controlled by the great Phoenician city of a second result we may note the spread of Greek cultureand influence, especially toward the west. The emigratingGreeks took with them their spirit of enterprise and spreadtheir ideas among the peoples of the west. The Romans,for example, came into contact with the Greeks of Cyme. THE SPREADING OF THE GREEKS 99 and Naples, and learned much from them. A third resultwas the bringing of the Greeks in Sicily into direct com-petition with Carthage. The Phoenicians here had amassedgreat wealth by building up an immense trade with thepeoples of the western Mediterranean. Were they to bedriven out of this field by the Greeks as their forefathers hadbeen driven from the eastern Mediterranean? We shallsee that years of bloody fighting were spent in trying tosettle this struggle in the new world of the western Medi-terranean. The older cities of Greece shared, of course, in the finan-cial gain which came to the colonies from the rapid growthof trade in the land around them. Yet the time soon camewhen they could not vie in wealth with some of the newcities of the west, such as Sybaris and Syracuse. The whole Greek nation was developed and matured bythe knowledge it gained from dealing with new peoples andse
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