Athens and Sparta .
There were not just 14 states. At different times, there were different numbers. Here are some of them: Athens, Corinth, Thebes, Argos, Mycenae, Sparta, Knossos, Gortys, Phaestos, Pella, Potidea They spanned the entire Aegean sea. Look at slide # 2 on this website: http://www.scribd.com/doc/9266839/Ancient-Greece-CityStates
Greece
greek buildings
A Polis.
Spartains ate this discusting mix of pork blood vinigar and salt. Other citystates ate cheese, wine, grapes, and bread.
Around 750 B.C. villages in a small area joined together to form a city in the shadow of a Acropolis began to develop their own tradition ad their own form of government and laws. Today these are called city-states.
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Citizen
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To gain land for farming
Athens and Sparta .
The people that are from Greece are called Greeks.
The land was generally poor, so to gain food security, trade was used to buy external sources of food.
Sumerian citystates were originally theocracies.
The people that are from Greece are called Greeks.
landless laborers in Greece are called