Ancient Greece

In around 800 BC, small farming communities in Greece expanded into city-states, known as polis, which were independent and had their own rulers and laws. Each polis had a central town called an Acropolis, built on a hill for defense. Ancient Greece was a collection of these small nations, not a single country. When rulers became unpopular, they were overthrown, leading to the birth of democratic governments.

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