Outlines of European history . ?0. e= THE ANCIENT GREEKWOULD IN EUROPE, ASIA MINOR AND THEAEGEAN ISLANDS 26 i.,Qngimde Eaat Jfrom Greenwich 2» The Age of the Nobles and the Tyrants in Greece 147 the Islands of the Blest. But step by step the dreaded regionswere explored. Flourishing cities like Corinth, in trading withthe western coast of Greece, pushed northward, where the sea-men could discover the shores of Italy as they looked westwardtoward the heel of that great peninsula. It was indeed but fiftymiles distant from the west coast of Greece. When they hadonce crossed to it, their trading v
Outlines of European history . ?0. e= THE ANCIENT GREEKWOULD IN EUROPE, ASIA MINOR AND THEAEGEAN ISLANDS 26 i.,Qngimde Eaat Jfrom Greenwich 2» The Age of the Nobles and the Tyrants in Greece 147 the Islands of the Blest. But step by step the dreaded regionswere explored. Flourishing cities like Corinth, in trading withthe western coast of Greece, pushed northward, where the sea-men could discover the shores of Italy as they looked westwardtoward the heel of that great peninsula. It was indeed but fiftymiles distant from the west coast of Greece. When they hadonce crossed to it, their trading ventures carried them on coast-ing voyages around Sicily and northward far into the west, atlast even to the then unknown shores which we call the Frenchand Spanish coasts. Here was a new world. Its discovery wasas momentous for the Greeks as that of America for later Europe. By 750 their colonies appeared in this new western Greek colo-world, and within a century they fringed southern Italy from west—south-the heel t
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