The name ‘Greeks’ was given to the people of Greece later by the Romans. They lived in mainland Greece and the Greek islands, but also in colonies scattered around the Mediterranean Sea.

Greeks have been living in what is now Turkey continuously since the middle 2nd millennium BC. Following upheavals in mainland Greece during the Bronze Age Collapse, the Aegean coast of Asia Minor was heavily settled by Ionian and Aeolian Greeks and became known as Ionia and Aeolia.During the era of Greek colonization from the 8th to the 6th century BC, numerous Greek …

Ancient Greek civilization was concentrated in what is today Greece and along the western coast of Turkey. However, ancient Greek colonists established cities all around the Mediterranean and along the coast of the Black Sea.

14/03/2021 · The Ancient Greeks also founded many colonies in the Mediterranean between 750 BC and 500 BC. The Greeks founded colonies in southern Italy and southern France. They also began colonies on the Turkish coast and around the Black Sea and on the coast of North Africa. Society in Ancient Greece.

Most of the work in ancient Greece was done by slaves. Most slaves were either free born children sold by their poor parents or prisoners of war. The Greeks would only eat meat from a domesticated animal (sheep or goat) if it had been first sacrificed to a god. The Greeks started making their own coins around 600BC each Polis (city state) had ...