It also is possible, again it's just speculation, that population pressure might well be greater in the cities that did the colonizing.

再一次,只是猜测,也很有可能,这些进行殖民的城市,人口压力相对大

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But these cities were very active in colonizing in a variety of directions.

但这些城市向周围各个方向,积极进行殖民活动

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So, south of Rome there is a tremendous colonizing of southern Italy.

因此罗马的南部,也就是意大利南部,有大量的希腊殖民地

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No. And the reason was in the northern part of Italy, there were Etruscans, another powerful ancient people who control their own area and were not about to have anybody colonizing their territory.

没有,因为意大利北部,居住着伊特鲁里亚人,另一个古代强大的民族,他们控制自己的疆域,并且不允许任何殖民者侵略他们的领土

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What we find is that the states who are doing most of the colonizing are located where most of the trade was going on at this point in history, and also most of the manufacturing.

我们发现,殖民行为最多的地区,地处当时贸易最频繁的区域,同时,那里也是制造业最发达的地方

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