For instance, it is evident that the country now called Hellas had in ancient times no settled population; on the contrary, migrations were of frequent occurrence, the several tribes readily abandoning their homes under the pressure of superior numbers. Without commerce, without freedom of communication either by land or sea, cultivating no more of their territory than the exigencies of life required, destitute of capital, never planting their land (for they could not tell when an invader might not come and take it all away, and when he did come they had no walls to stop him), thinking that the necessities of daily sustenance could be supplied at one place as well as another, they cared little for shifting their habitation, and consequently neither built large cities nor attained to any other form of greatness

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	September 14, 2020
ISBN13	9798684281204
Publishers	Independently Published
Pages	590
Dimensions	152 × 229 × 30 mm · 780 g
Language	English

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