ABSTRACT
In chapter 5 we have seen that many factors contributed to the rise of the spectacular societies of the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Among these were the more sedentary character, the demographic growth and the increasing complexity of the societies of 7th-century Italy together with the arrival of migrants from Aegean areas. The latter brought new technical skills, had other forms of social and economic organization and had different ideas, norms and values. In the 6th century four states (poleis) came into being in southeast Italy proclaiming an overtly Greek identity, while three or four powerful indigenous tribes arose from the fairly segmented clan world of the 7th and early 6th centuries BC. These profound changes in the native world of southeast Italy happened between the late 6th century and the middle of the 5th century BC.
