There are quite a number of them. The most famous include: Mycenae, Athens, Sparta, Thebes, Argos, Megara, Corinth, Pylos, Delphi, and Boetia.
Spartains ate this discusting mix of pork blood vinigar and salt. Other citystates ate cheese, wine, grapes, and bread.
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To gain land for farming
Athens and Sparta .
The land was generally poor, so to gain food security, trade was used to buy external sources of food.
Sumerian citystates were originally theocracies.
Around 750 B.C. villages in a small area joined together to form a city in the shadow of a Acropolis began to develop their own tradition ad their own form of government and laws. Today these are called city-states.
There were not just 14 states. At different times, there were different numbers. Here are some of them: Athens, Corinth, Thebes, Argos, Mycenae, Sparta, Knossos, Gortys, Phaestos, Pella, Potidea They spanned the entire Aegean sea. Look at slide # 2 on this website: http://www.scribd.com/doc/9266839/Ancient-Greece-CityStates
This impact the city-states because the renaissance were so wealthy in their down city
The first advanced civilizations in Europe were the minoic and archaeic culteres on crete, influenced by Phoenicians traders and colonists form middle east. The earliest tracks dating back to 2000 BC, some sources say even 3000BC After the downfall of the minoic kingdoms the attic citystates in Greece, such as troy, Sparta or Athens rised, that was aroud 1000 -7000 BC. The first democracy in Athens in history was formed around 700BC. This age is generally known as the bronze age.