WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -A city-state, or polis, was the community structure of ancient Greece. Each city-state was organized with an urban center and the surrounding countryside.

Detailed explanation-2: -polis, plural poleis, ancient Greek city-state. The small state in Greece originated probably from the natural divisions of the country by mountains and the sea and from the original local tribal (ethnic) and cult divisions.

Detailed explanation-3: -The word “Politics” has been drawn from the Greek word “Polis” which means affairs of city-states.

Detailed explanation-4: -The word originates from the ancient Greek city-states, which developed during the Archaic period and existed well into Roman times, when the equivalent Latin word was civitas, that means ‘citizenhood’ as well. An ancient polis often centered around a citadel, called the acropolis.