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Why were Greeks so obsessed with coasts?
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Why were Greeks so obsessed with coasts?
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>>61786734
Trade ports
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>>61786734
could ask you the same question mario
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>>61787111
Italians are obsessed with running motor oil through their hair and living with their mom.
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>>61786734
Olbia was a Phoenician/Sardinian settlement, Greeks only stayed for less than a century before getting exiled elsewhere.
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>>61786734

They're easy to get to. Greeks are lazy.
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>>61787187
GABAGOOL
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>>61786734
Because it's where most of the population lived back then? Because it's easier to travel from port to port (and you can transport a bigger amount of commodities with less effort) than around the mountainous areas of Italy, Iberia and Anatolia?
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>>61787202
When the Phoeceans (Ionian Greeks) fought against the Phoenician/Tyrrenian coalition in the battle of the Sardinian sea, even though the Greeks managed to (barely) win, they had to flee with their tails between their legs from Corsica and the Western mediterranean in general and settled in Campania
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>>61787187
Hair gel obsession is a terroni thing mostly.
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>>61788083
You retarded fuck, in Milan all the boys wear a hipster hairstyle with ultra gel
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>>61788274
And Milan is a terroni colony. Thanks for proving my point.
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They don't have anything else
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Over land infrastructure was really difficult and expensive. Boats get you where ever much more quickly and easily, so they just sailed around
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>>61789493
>Over land infrastructure was really difficult and expensive.
Also kinda dangerous to use.
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You get some pretty mad beaches from it.
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