After the dark ages, herding and farming sprang up again. Soon, borders of areas became fixed, each area became independent by 800 BC. There were forts on hilltops for protection, and a polis grew up around each one. The polis was the center of Greek community life. (The plural of Polis is Poleis.) People were Hellenes, or Greeks. Hellas was their word for Greece. There were two main city states: Sparta and Athens.
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The Greek civilization flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC. The civilization began to flourish on the islands of the Aegean Sea.
It was not divided - the city-states developed as tribes of nomads settled on a tract of land, and developed local cities as their centre of living and protection.
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Philip of Macedonia was the first person to unite Greece.
Democracy had its origins in ancient Greece.
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