The expansion of the Greek world. VIII-VI century BC

The second, corrected and supplemented edition of the Russian translation of the third part of the third volume (Volume III.3). It investigates factors related to the new economic success and growth of young city-states in the interval from the VIII to the VI century. BC. e. It was an era of wide expansion and great colonization. Greek policies were then established in vast space - from the Western Mediterranean to the shores of the Black Sea. The book describes the fruitful contacts of Hellas with the Middle East and Egypt, speaks of the significance of Western Greece and Aegean islands in trade exchange and in geographical discoveries, and special features of society that developed during colonization are clarified. While the communities, which were outside the main direction of expansion and trade activity, retained their ancient institutions, those communities that were in the center of this movement changed their own institutions very quickly; We add to this that the period under consideration was the time of continuous armed conflicts in mainland Greece. The book shows how, as a result of the reforms of Solon and Pisistrat, Athena turned into one of the leading Greek states. This volume ends in which the characteristic of the social, economic and material history of Greece in the archaic era is given.