There were about 2,000 independent city states spread around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, with populations varying from a few thousand to 200,000.
A guess would be overall in the vicinity of 8 to 10 million in the 4th Century BCE, well up from only about 700,000 in the 8th Century BCE. But of course it varied over the centuries up and down due to famines, good seasons, war, plagues natural increases over time. However the jump in the figures above showed what prolific breeders they were in an era before the distraction of TV.
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It varied over time as a result of the competing forces of wars, disease and prolific reproduction in ancient Athens. At its peak in the later 5th Century BCE, it was about 250,000. 40,000 male citizens, 120,000 women and children, 70,000 salves and 20,000 resident aliens.
Athens of course there are 3,700,000 people who live in Athens to the 11 million people who live in Greece
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The word Greece comes from the Latin name for the country of Greece or Graecia. The Greek culture actually calls Greece "Ellada. "
Democracy had its origins in ancient Greece.