ANTH 2150 Chapter 4: CLASSICAL NOTES CHAPTER FOUR.doc
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70-101 the archaic period saw new forms of literary, artistic, and intellectual expression wars among greeks became more frequent, and warfare itself became more lethal. A city state is a defined geographically area compromising a central city and its adjacent territory, which together make up single, self-governing political units. The greeks called this arrangement a polis which gives us political, politics, and. The essential elements of the greek city-states were already in place during the later. Formal political unification of the demos and the creation of a central government. In all city-states, the capital city is the focal point of the state. In most greek cities, all male inhabitants of a city"s territory were called politai (members of polis) The process b which a demos became unified is called synoecism. Political unification of regional territories that contained several towns and villages was more complex and it not well understood.
