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They farmed it, growing grain, fruit, olives, vegetables and livestock to feed themselves. They mined it, principally silver at Sunion, which gave them the initial capital to build the fleet of warships which helped defeat the Persian invasion, and then establish the naval superiority which formed the basis of their empire in the 5th Century BCE.

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