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1 Ancient Greek City-States What is a Polis? Where were the main ones?

2 What is a Polis? Before we look at where you can find the most important poleis (the plural of polis), let’s figure out what the polis was… Can you think of some words that look like they are related to polis?

3 What is a Polis? Some possible answers… Acropolis: High-City Metropolis: Mother-City Politician: One who serves the city Politics: The act of running the city Police: Protectors of the city

4 What is a Polis? Polis means city-state: the basic political unit of Hellenic (Greek) civilization

5 Where were the important poleis? Athens Sparta Corinth Delphi Miletus Marathon

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