CLAB05H3 Chapter 3: Greece chapter 3
Document Summary
Archaic greece(750/700-480bc): archaic period is considered to be the formative era of the intellectual, cultural and political achievements of the greece"s golden age, the city state grew mature. Political uni cation(synoecism): synoecism is the acceptance of a single political center, synoecism took different forms depending on the size of territory. Small demos made up of a single main town and its adjacent plain, holding subsidiary villages. Big regions was a drawn-out development, strengthened by religious methods: some synoecism was peaceful and voluntary, but some used intimidation and even force. Government in the early city-states: the new landowning aristocracy were the planners and builders of the central government, the of ce of paramount basileus was either abolished or reduced in power. Their former functions were distributed among several of cials. Economic and social divisions in the early poleis: the colonization widened the economic gap, the aristocracy was de ned by family backgrounds.
