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What Did an Ancient Greek Apoikia Actually Look Like? - The Greek Apoikia: How Ancient Migrants Built Independent City-States | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the late summer of 633 BCE, a group of families and younger sons chosen by lot sailed from the island of Thera toward an unfamiliar Libyan coast. They carried rations, tools, and a ceramic vessel holding fire from their city’s public hearth. Their goal was not to expand an empire, but to survive a crisis of overpopulation and land shortage by building a new home away from their mother city. This episode examines the historical reality of that journey and the complex, improvisational…
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