ANCH1240 Lecture 4: The Formation of Greece
31 Jul 2018
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Increased social stratification: the rise of specialization in civic space, the networking of the mediterranean (i. e. more foreign goods and contacts, the development of a sophisticated literary culture. The making of greece into greece: 7th and 6th centuries bc. Key elements: rise of the polis (city-state, development of pan-hellenic sanctuaries, colonisation of the mediterranean, political revolutions and the rise of tyrants. The rise of the polis (8th-6th century bc) Sunoikism = consolidation of communities into a city-state (this may take a long time: example: athens/attica- abolition of small political centres beneath a central city-state. Sometimes this never happened completely: example: sparta: always maintains its traditional village divisions and remained a collection of 5 (limnai, cynosura, pitana, mesoa, What is a polis: a city-state: a territory and a community, a self-governing entity, whose territory comprised an urban center (astu) and the adjacent territory (chora, a community of citizens sharing an identity and a system of government.
