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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)In certain scholarly circles, the Archaic, Classical, and, particularly, the Hellenistic Mediterranean world is increasingly understood as on in which globalizing processes affected the socio-cultural and economic lives of communities across the entire region. These processes are largely seen as the result of various trading, colonizing and military activities if Greeks, Phoenicians, and, later, Romans. [...] Greek colonization of the Mediterranean and Black Sea region during the Archaic period created a kind of 'decentralized network', a 'small space', in which various forms and styles of material culture were transmitted across thousands of miles between intensively connected communities.