Ancient Greece - The Boundary Drawing Culture of the Ancient Greeks

The idea of leaving a will was sort of unknown to them, because it's always just the eldest brother inherits everything. The property was absolutely indivisible and couldn't be sold. Your ancestral lands were where you buried your dead, and that's where their spirits lived. So while they had absolute control over there, like independent little fifdum each family, the little micro piftum of just probably some small land just to support themselves. And even when they began to federate into bigger groups like tribes and eventually form cities. These all remained independent from each other in many ways.