Geography had a profound impact upon Ancient Greece. The rugged terrain of the Greek territory shaped Greek civilization into separated and largely isolated individual city-state units. Furthermore, the dominance of water made of the Greeks a sea-faring power, thereby ensuring interactions (and conflicts) with other peoples in the Mediterranean Basin.
The Greek city states treated the government independently. This was because they knew that the city had its independent way of governing and government. It became very effecting in counteracting the politics at the time.
Tyrants. Note: In Ancient Greece, the word "tyrant" meant "ruler," not "evil despot."
Citizens in ancient Greek city states developed ideas about representation that established direct democracy
Democracy in the Greek world was short lived - Alexander himself was running an empire with no democracy, and his successors set themselves up as kings. No room for democracy there.
The term you are referring to is a city-state. A city-state is a sovereign state consisting of a city and its dependent territories. These entities have their own government, economy, and culture, and historically, they were common in ancient times, particularly in regions like ancient Greece and Mesopotamia. City-states often had a high degree of autonomy and were able to conduct their own affairs independently of neighboring states.
The mountains and hills of Greece isolated the city-states which cut off connection with other city-states and countries
it develops wars and fighting in the city -States
Separate city-states developed
The mountainous geography kept the Greeks from uniting.
The separate city-states which it created formed the basis of Greek culture and its cultural legacy.
The arable land was mostly in small pockets in valleys separated by mountains, rivers and seas. Incoming migratory tribes to a portion each to farm and later each developed cities, becoming independent city-states which had no reason to merge with competing other city-states.
Greece was built in between many rocky mountains and hills. This separated it and developed induvuidual city-states.
Greek geography has much to do with the way early Greeks lived. Mainland Greece lies on the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula.
The geography of Greece was marked by a division of the country by mountains and by water. This led to the City States growing as separate enitities.
The Greek people led the greek city-states to set up colonies
the city states
They were different - one was Persia versus a coalition of Greek city-states; the other was Greek city-states versus Greek city-states.