The Persian Empire recruited Greek city-states. A third of its navy at the sea battle of Salamis was from Greek city-states in Asia Minor. A third of its army at the land battle of Plataea was Greek.
Two key factors that prevented Greek city-states from uniting were their strong sense of individual identity and localism, which fostered loyalty to the city-state over a collective Greek identity. Additionally, geographical barriers, such as mountains and the sea, contributed to isolation and hindered communication and cooperation among the city-states, leading to frequent conflicts and rivalries.
The Aegean Sea separated it from mainland Greece, however there were over 100 Greek city-states within the Persian empire in Asia Minor and the Islands, and those cities were the bone of contention which gave rise to the Greek-Persian Wars.
The fecund Greeks living on limited areas of land had to ship out surplus populations to seize new land and form new city-states for themselves. The sea was the highroad, and so they spread over 2,000 city-states around the Mediterranean and Black Sea littorals.
To provide a home for its growing surplus population, which could not be accommodated in the limited agricultural areas of the city-states of Greece. The surplus were shipped of around the Mediterranean and Black Sea littorals to seize new land and form new city-states of their own, expanding the Greek world to over 2,000 city-states.
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Mainly the Greek city-states spread around the Mediterranean Sea.
Over 2,000 independent cities and their lands (city-states) spread around the Mediterranean and Black Sea littorals.
Over 2,000 independent cities and their lands (city-states) spread around the Mediterranean and Black Sea littorals.
The Persian Empire recruited Greek city-states. A third of its navy at the sea battle of Salamis was from Greek city-states in Asia Minor. A third of its army at the land battle of Plataea was Greek.
There was no Greek citizen. They were citizens of Greek city-states. There were city-states in what today is Russia, and around the north coast of Turkey a thousand km from the Mediterranean.
While Poseidon was the protector of many Greek city-states, none were named for him directly.
It gave Greece a strong political system of city-states.
Over 2,000, spread around the Mediterranean and Black Sea littorals.
The city-states shipped surplus populations off to seize land and establish new cities for themselves.
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