WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A POLIS is a settlement in a new territory that keeps close ties to its homeland.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Greek city of Corinth was founded in the Neolithic Period sometime between 5000-3000 BCE. It became a major city in the 8th century BCE and was known for its architectural and artistic innovations including the invention of black-figure pottery.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thebes was the seat of the legendary king Oedipus and the locale of most of the ancient Greek tragedies-notably Aeschylus’s Seven Against Thebes and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Antigone-and of other compilations about the fate of Oedipus, his wife-mother, and his children.

Detailed explanation-4: -Colonies in antiquity were post-Iron Age city-states founded from a mother-city (its “metropolis"), not from a territory-at-large. Bonds between a colony and its metropolis remained often close, and took specific forms during the period of classical antiquity.