WORLD HISTORY

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. Characteristics of the city in a polis were outer walls for protection, as well as a public space that included temples and government buildings.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term the Greeks used was polis, which meant “city-state.” A polis was bigger than a city but smaller than a state.

Detailed explanation-3: -Polis refers to city states of ancient Greece.

Detailed explanation-4: -The polis emerged from the Dark Ages which followed the fall of the Mycenaean civilization in Greece and by the 8th century BCE a significant process of urbanisation had begun.

Detailed explanation-5: -The largest polis was Athens, whose city and countryside covered a territ ory roughly the size of the modern State of Luxemburg (2, 500 square kilometres).