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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III COLONIZATION During the Period 750-479 B.C. The period extending from about 750 to the close of the great war with Persia, 479, is one of colonial expansion, of economic development from pastoral and agricultural conditions to commerce and industry, and of such progress in literature, art, and intelligence, including the beginnings of science and philosophy, that it may well be named the era of intellectual awakening. The colonial movement did not continue to the end of the period, but came substantially to an end about the middle of the sixth century. 20. The Physical Condition Of Europe And Its Effect On The Inhabitants (Strabo ii. 5. 26) Now the whole of Europe is habitable with the exception of a small part which cannot be dwelt in, on account of the severity of the cold, and which borders on the Hamaxceci,1 who dwell by the Don, Maeotis, and Dnieper. The wintry and mountainous parts of the habitable earth would seem to afford by nature but a miserable means of existence; nevertheless, by good management, places scarcely inhabited by any but robbers may be got into condition. Thus the Greeks, though dwelling amidst rocks and mountains, live in comfort, owing to their economy in government and the arts and all the other appliances of life. Thus, too, the Romans, after subduing numerous nations who were leading a savage life, either induced by the rockiness of their countries or want of ports or severity of the cold, or for other reasons scarcely habitable, have taught the arts of commerce to many who were formerly in total ignorance, and spread civilization among the most savage. Where the climate is equable and mild, nature herself does much towardENVIRONMENT 119 1 Dwellers in wagons, a nomadic people. the production of these advantage...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217005449
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217005446
  • Publisher Date: 04 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 517 gr


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