Greek city-states were built around the agora, or the marketplace/ civic center and the temple. These two areas held great importance to the Ancient Greeks. The agora was the place that the people gathered throughout the day and the temple was where they made offerings to their patron god.
Polis is the Greek word for a city-state, that is a tract of farmland on which was built a city and its protective fortress (acro-polis = high city, that is the fortress on a hill, around which the city came to be built). It was independent - self ruled - which is why the term city-state is used.
Byzantium was the Greek city that Constantinople was built on.
A typical Greek city state has aPolis- A city, or a city-stateAgora- A place for gathering; A marketplace, especially in Classical GreeceAcropolis- Greek for "high city," the term refers to the elevated portions of cities on which the main temples were built.
relationship among greek city state
Polis is a word. It means Greek city state.
Many Greek cities were built on a rocky hill called an acropolis. The name acropolis was from the Greek word akros, meaning highest, and polis, meaning city.
Sparta was a Greek city-state that was a feared warrior society.
Crete is still a Greek City-State.
There was no Greek empire. Greece was hundreds of independent city-states.
Polis is the Greek word for political city-state. The term refers to the political, social and cultural center of the different Greek city-states.
Many Greek cities were built on a rocky hill called an acropolis. The name acropolis was from the Greek word akros, meaning highest, and polis, meaning city.
The Greek city.