Competition, Tyranny, and the Birth of Ancient Greece
Tides of History
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The Politics of the Greeks
Early Iron Age Greece is best understood as a series of local rural chiefdoms. As these village communities began to coalesce into something bigger, the picture changed. Rather than a single Baselius, powerful families started to cooperate and compete with one another. This aristocracy's power rested on the fact that they now controlled much larger amounts of better quality land than their neighbors.
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