poleis
Britishnoun
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Thus, it was all too easy for Athens to simply use the League to drain the other poleis of wealth while building up its own power.
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Rome split Macedon into puppet republics, plundered Macedon’s allies, and lorded over the remaining Greek poleis.
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The Romans had been in contact with Greek culture for centuries, ever since the Etruscans struck up their trading relationship with the Greek poleis of southern Italy.
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In 499 BCE several Ionian Greek poleis rose against the Persians and successfully secured Athenian aid.
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The Hellenic municipalities were developments from the poleis, or city-states, which existed prior to the Roman conquest in Greece and the Hellenized areas of Asia and Africa.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
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