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What was another name for a Greek city-state?
Polis is a word. It means Greek city state.
What does the greek word polis mean?
city-statePolis literally means 'city ' in Greek and indicated Greek City States. For example Astropolis now may mean a complex space station, Cosmopolis is a large urban center, Necropolis, city of the dead or a cemetery. Some cities carry the word 'polis' in their name as in Annapolis in the USA, Biopolis in Singapore, Indianapolis in the USA and Sophia-Antipolis in Francepolice
High city of the Greek polis was called?
Acropolis
Are the Ancient Greek island citizens usually landowners?
polis
What Greek polis created the phalanx infantry formation?
Sparta
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