Evilprodigy
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When the Europeans came to the Americas they claimed and settled/conquered territory for the mother country and despite self governance in several colonies they were still a part of the Colonial Empires of the day.
When the Greeks and Phoenicians made colonies it was not to expand territory. Normally it was to expand trade or alleviate population pressure. Most of these colonies were independent from their very conception but retained close ties with their mother city. For example Taras, a Colony of Sparta in Southern Italy, grew to be one of the most prominent cities in Magna Graecia and Sparta regularly assisted them in wars when called upon. Carthage started out as a colony of Tyre and itself founded it's own colonies in southern Spain. Corinth founded a colony named Corcyra who founded their own colony of Epidamnos. So colonies could found colonies of their own, and if the Peloponnesian Wars are any indication being a grandmother city made Corinth feel close enough to Epidamnos to feel like they should take sides in their conflicts.
What I am curious about is what if the Europeans followed this method of colonization, creating independent but closely allied cities states, rather than as an expansion of their own Empire? I am unsure if conquered countries like the Aztecs, Incans, and Mayans would be able to fall into this category since they were conquered but colonies founded by New Spain such as Los Angeles, Santa Fe, and Acapulco could have a 'grandmother' kind of tie like I mentioned above with Corinth and Epidamnos.
When the Greeks and Phoenicians made colonies it was not to expand territory. Normally it was to expand trade or alleviate population pressure. Most of these colonies were independent from their very conception but retained close ties with their mother city. For example Taras, a Colony of Sparta in Southern Italy, grew to be one of the most prominent cities in Magna Graecia and Sparta regularly assisted them in wars when called upon. Carthage started out as a colony of Tyre and itself founded it's own colonies in southern Spain. Corinth founded a colony named Corcyra who founded their own colony of Epidamnos. So colonies could found colonies of their own, and if the Peloponnesian Wars are any indication being a grandmother city made Corinth feel close enough to Epidamnos to feel like they should take sides in their conflicts.
What I am curious about is what if the Europeans followed this method of colonization, creating independent but closely allied cities states, rather than as an expansion of their own Empire? I am unsure if conquered countries like the Aztecs, Incans, and Mayans would be able to fall into this category since they were conquered but colonies founded by New Spain such as Los Angeles, Santa Fe, and Acapulco could have a 'grandmother' kind of tie like I mentioned above with Corinth and Epidamnos.