ACS 103 Lecture Notes - Greek Dark Ages, Perioeci, Phratry
4 Mar 2013
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Polis that emerged from greek dark age was different than that of middle eastern cities. The polis" where small, population in hundreds or thousands. Few greek city states are repeated in greek history; mainly athens, and sparta, then also. If we got back into political and economic history we only know about 2 main ones sparta and. Athens and most of both of the information we have comes from athenian sources. Consisted of citizens over the age of 60. They had a great respect for people who were old: the apellia :an assembly of all males over the age of thirty. Trained to be steal and if caught beaten. At 20 allowed to marry and had to live in barracks had to sneak out to see wife and beaten if caught. Other city states view spartans as elitist and conservative and often tried to have helots rebel. Most city-states derive most of their wealth from trade.
