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was a city-state in Greece on the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula in Laconia. This city-state was predominately a military society. City-states were independent geographical locations usually surrounded by walls with their own form of government. Because of the mountainous rugged terrain of Greece, communication and travel were relatively impossible. The independent city-states hated when others interfered and so when two happened upon the other they often ended up fighting each other. was very much a military society because after the Dark Ages, slaves outnumbered their masters twenty to one. To keep the large number of slaves from rising up against them, the ns had to make and ...

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because it was so intense. In the end, and Corinth won the war. surrounded the city-state of Athens and a plague broke out. It spread like wildfire and killed Pericles, an Athenian leader, as one of its first victims. It was a shallow victory for the ns however, because Greece had been fighting within itself. The downfall of Athens led to the weakness of all Greece.
The n religion was that of all the other city-states of Greece. They were polytheistic and had twelve major gods. They believed the gods dictated their daily lives and the gods protected them. Sacrifices and offerings were made with prayer to appease the gods into favoring them. The gods the ns probably prayed and sacrificed most often were: Zeus, Athena, and Hades.
Zeus was the king of the gods on Mount Olympus (where they were said to have lived) he was very powerful and was associated with thunder and lightning.

Athena was the goddess of wisdom and strategy. She was cunning and if she favored particular ...

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Added: 3/31/2008 08:10:02 PM
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