City States Of Ancient Greece
This is a small list of ancient greek cities including colonies outside greece note that there were a great many greek cities in the ancient world.
City states of ancient greece. Between 2000 and 1200 bc almost all greek city states had a monarchical form of government. The greek name for a city state was polis. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the early middle ages and the byzantine time. Characteristics of the city in a polis were outer walls for protection as well as a public space that included temples and government buildings.
Ancient greece wasn t a single country or empire united under a single government it was made up of a number of city states. Some states were monarchical in form whereas in some other states business was conducted on democratic lines. History ancient greece. The term ancient or archaic greece refers to the years 700 480 b c not the classical age 480 323 b c known for its art architecture and philosophy.
At the center of each city state was a powerful city. The temples and government buildings were often built on the top of a hill or acropolis. The city ruled the lands and area around it. In this list a city is defined as a single population center.
Except for the 13 years that alexander the great conquered the greek city states along with egypt mesopotamia parts of india and more the greek city states did not have one leader. Sometimes it also ruled smaller less powerful cities. Although ancient greece consisted of hundreds of city states the most important among them were athens sparta corinth megara and argos. It was never an empire.
Ancient greece was not one country.