Continuity And Changes In Greek Culture

As Greeks started to venture away from their mainland, their focus was not on building an empire. Unlike the colonization that took place during the 15th century AD, Greek colonial policies were not built around the subjugation of native people. Instead each new colonial settlement was an independent polis whose power lay in the hands of the elites. Even though these new regions maintained kinship ties to their mother-cities, they were not politically controlled by them (Cameron and Neal, 2003; Gwynne, 1918; Hodos, 2006; Stallo, 2007).
The Illyrian traditional lifestyle changed as new colonial areas of commerce impeded upon the Illyrians prime pastoral lands (Galaty, 2002; Stallo, 2007; Wright, 2014). The once transhumant population settled