HIST 2001 Chapter 3: Archaic Greece
Document Summary
The forces of change that swept over greece in the eight century continued at an accelerated pace for the seventh and sixth centuries. This included the population rising, more colonies being founded, trade expanding, and the growing of a greek identity through panhellenic shrives, festivals, and oracles. It also saw new forms of literary, artistic, and intellectual expression. However, it also saw more frequent warfare, which became more and more lethal;. Strife withins demos become more common as leaders attempted to wrangle more and more power. All of these movements, good or bad, would replace the old chieftain system by 700 bce. City states themselves are ancient political formations that go back to the early bronze age is mesopotamia. The greeks would take the arrangement of a city and its adjacent territory as a self-governing, political unit, and call it a polis.
