As he leafed through the books, the new world map, vastly different from the original geography of Greece, gradually became clearer in Laine's mind.
Athens... was actually a city near the East Sea and it was the last city established during the great human migration. It could be said that the kingdoms established earlier were closer to Olympus, and the distances between them were often greater, as the wilderness was vast, and there was no need for the migrating humans to build cities too close to one another.
Latterly closer to the sea, the remaining migrating groups had not only less time to settle down than their peers, their competitive relationships were also more intense, often making the distances between two cities narrower. This was naturally not a problem initially, but as everyone settled down, the population grew, and the land expanded. It became embarrassingly apparent that without resorting to force, there were almost no directions available for expansion.
