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Q: Why might the Greeks have developed the polis?
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What are Greeks city states also known as?

Polis


What are Greeks city-states also known as?

Polis


Why was the polis called framwork of the greek life?

The answer is: It is called the ''framework of Greek life'' because the polis played a key role during the history of the ancient Greeks lifes.


Which kind of government did the Greeks use?

They had one man to rule over multiple city states.(or Polis)


What is a polis?

The early greek city-state, consisting of a city or town and its surrounding territory. Polis is described as city in Greek. Also known in Ancient Greek as city-state, it could also mean citizenship and body of citizens. You had to be born in to citizenship by naturalization otherwise you could be shut out of democracy. This being a new concept of the ancient world which demonstrates culture might be universal to the greeks.


Another term for a city-state is?

Polis, or thate what the ancient Greeks called it. not sure if that refers to ww2.


What is the name of the Greek center where people met to discuss ideas?

The polis is were the ancient Greeks disscosed and debated about their city-state.


What developed Greek city states?

what ideas developed in Greeks city-states


What civilizaton developed astronomy?

The ancient Greeks.


Was drama developed by the ancient Greeks?

Yes.


What was meroitic?

The Merotic was developed when they borrowed from the Greeks


What is the difference between a Greek polis and a colony?

To take it a step further, to be considered a Greek citizen, you had to be born Greek (i.e. born to FREE Greek speaking parents). Many of the city-states also had rules for slaves becoming citizens (with the exception of Sparta). In Rome, all FREE people who lived within the borders of the Empire were considered citizens, though to participate in the Senate, even as a Plebian, your parents had to be born a citizen. When comparing the two side by side, you could say that in Greek times, a Greek was only a Greek. But in Roman times, a Greek was always a Roman, but a Roman was only Greek if he was born Greek. -Indiriel --------------------- It was one of nationality. A Greek was a Greek and a Roman was a Roman. The big difference was that generally a Greek was only a citizen of his city-state while the Roman citizen held citizenship throughout the empire.