HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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tiny country
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tiny state
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tiny village
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tiny town square
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Detailed explanation-1: -A polis was an autonomous community of Greeks who considered themselves to be distinctive from other Greeks. Every polis had its own citizen army, its own set of laws, and its own specific gods.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mesopotamian city-states were ruled by kings, and all of the people living there were subjects to the king, in a Greek polis, citizens had a say in the governing of the city-state and a king was not welcome. This type of government was unheard of in the ancient world until the Greek Archaic Period.
Detailed explanation-3: -A Polis (plural: poleis) was the typical structure of a community in the ancient Greek world. A polis consisted of an urban centre, often fortified and with a sacred centre built on a natural acropolis or harbour, which controlled a surrounding territory (chora) of land.
Detailed explanation-4: -According to Plato there are five main economic classes of any polis: producers, merchants, sailors/shipowners, retail traders and wage earners.