what is an independant greece city that ruled a region with its own laws,money,soldiers,etc.?
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Athens or Sparta... Athens I think.
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Sparta is part of modern day Greece.
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It lasted for six tense years.\n\nThe Peace of Nicias lasted for some six years, but was a time of constant skirmishing in and around the Peloponnese. While the Spartans refrained from action themselves, some of their allies began to talk of revolt. They were supported in this by Argos, a powerful state within the Peloponnese that had remained independent of Lacedaemon. With the support of the Athenians, the Argives succeeded in forging a coalition of democratic states within the Peloponnese, including the powerful states of Mantinea and Elis. Early Spartan attempts to break up the coalition failed, and the leadership of the Spartan king Agis was called into question. Emboldened, the Argives and their allies, with the support of a small Athenian force under Alcibiades, moved to seize the city of Tegea, near Sparta.\n\nThe Battle of Mantinea was the largest land battle fought within Greece during the Peloponnesian War. The Lacedaemonians, with their neighbors the Tegeans, faced the combined armies of Argos, Athens, Mantinea, and Arcadia. In the battle, the allied coalition scored early successes, but failed to capitalize on them, which allowed the Spartan elite forces to defeat the forces opposite them. The result was a complete victory for the Spartans, which rescued their city from the brink of strategic defeat. The democratic alliance was broken up, and most of its members were reincorporated into the Peloponnesian League. With its victory at Mantinea, Sparta pulled itself back from the brink of utter defeat, and reestablished its hegemony throughout the Peloponnese.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloponesian_war#Causes_of_the_war
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Greece was more powerful in the ancient world. Uniting East and West for the first and only time. There are still Greek speaking tribes in India(albe it only a few thousand) beacause of Alexander the Great. He crossed the Indus river and even founded present day Karachi, in Pakistan which was of course then named Alexandria.\nPersia was decimated by the Greeks and Greek soldiers took Persian wifes to spread the Greek culture. Another Greek city is Marsala, presently in France and known as Marsaille. Tactically they were brilliant and ***The Battle of Salamis was a testament to intelligence and tactics of the Acient Greeks***please look this up as it's a great account of a historical sea battle of the where the Persian Fleet in record numbers was decimated by the vastly inferior Greeks in terms of numbers and weaponry/ships.\n\nFrom India to France, no empire spread as far or ever will again.\nCrossing so much land on foot and conquering it all then succumbing to either poisoning or an illness. \n\nYour last three lines say it all...they had it all and the ancient greeks challenged, took it, burned the capital, and were accepted when they conquered generally, and made it better and spread their own vision to more of the world and this is evidenced today in numerous ways...it has to be greece easily in this one...\n\negypt vs greece would have been fairer...\n\n***additional - just read your additional comments - very good lol...
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Italy. It is the capitol of Italy, as well.\n\nVatican City is its own country, however Rome belongs to Italy.
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Athens, Greece.  Duh!
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Ancient Greece--specifically Athens
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The main problem before the reforms of Solon in the early 6th century BC was class strife. There were very small numbers of people who had significantly more wealth than the rest of the city. His reforms intorduced the first democratic elements, but the civil strife didn't really go away and a tyrant took over until the late 500s BC, when Cleisthenes set up their democracy as we know it. The civil strife never really went away, but it was much better once every citizen had an equal share in government.
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Military life\nThe ordinary Spartan was essentially a warrior, trained to obey and endure; he became a politician only if chosen as ephor for a single year. He could be elected a life member of the council after his sixtieth year, in which he would be free from military service.\n\nAt the age of twenty, the Spartan began his military service and his membership in one of the syssitia (dining messes or clubs), composed of about fifteen members each, of which every citizen was required to be a member. The Spartan exercised the full rights and duties of a citizen at the age of thirty. Only native Spartans were considered full citizens, and needed to undergo the training as prescribed by law, and participation in and contribution to one of the dining-clubs. Those who fulfilled these conditions were considered peers, (homoioi) citizens in the fullest sense of the word, while those who failed were called lesser men, and retained only the civil rights of citizenship.\n\nSpartiates were absolutely debarred by law from trade or manufacture, which consequently rested in the hands of the periokoi, and were forbidden (in theory) to possess either gold or silver. Spartan currency consisted of bars of iron, thus making thievery and foreign commerce very difficult and discouraging the accumulation of riches. Wealth was, in theory at least, derived entirely from landed property, and consisted in the annual return made by the Helots, who cultivated the plots of ground allotted to the Spartans. But this attempt to equalize property proved a failure: from the earliest times, there were marked differences of wealth within the state, and these became even more serious after the law of Epitadeus, passed at some time after the Peloponnesian War, removed the legal prohibition of the gift or bequest of land. Helots were ruthlessly controlled, primarily through the secret police or Krypteia.\n\nWomen were more independent than in other Greek societies, and were able to negotiate with their husbands to bring their lovers into their homes. According to Plutarch in his work Life of Lycurgus, men both allowed and encouraged their wives to bear the children of other men, due to the general communal ethos which made it more important to bear many progeny for the good of the city, than to be jealously concerned with one's own family unit. For this reason, Plutarch claims that the concept of "adultery" was alien to the Spartans, and relates that one ancient Spartan had said that it was as possible to find a bull with a neck long enough to stand on a mountain top and drink from a river below, as to find an adulterer in Sparta.\n\nFull citizens, released from any economic activity, were given a piece of land (kleros), which was cultivated and run by the Helots. As time went on, greater portions of land were concentrated in the hands of large landholders, but the number of full citizens decreased over time. Citizens had numbered 8,000 at the beginning of the 5th century BC, but had decreased by Aristotle's day (384-322BC) to less than 1,000, and had further decreased to 700 at the accession of Agis IV in 244 BC. Attempts were made to remedy this situation by creating new laws. Certain penalties were imposed upon those who remained unmarried or who married too late in life. These laws, however, came too late and were ineffective in reversing the trend.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartans#Military_life
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Greece, (Greek: Ελλάδα, Elláda (IPA: [e̞ˈlaða]), or Ελλάς, Ellás (IPA: [e̞ˈlas])), officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellinikí Dimokratía) is a country in southern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan peninsula. It is bordered by Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania to the north and by Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece while the Ionian Sea lies to the west. Both, parts of the eastern Mediterranean basin, feature a vast number of islands.\n\nRegarded as the cradle of western civilization and being the birthplace of democracy, philosophy, the Olympic Games and of the arts and drama including both tragedy and comedy, Greece has a very long and remarkably rich history during which its culture has proven to be especially influential in Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Today, Greece is a developed nation, member of the European Union since 1981 and a member of the Eurozone since 2001.\n\nHistory\nMain article: History of Greece \n[edit]\nPrehistory and Antiquity\nThe shores of Greece's Aegean Sea saw the emergence of the first civilizations in Europe, namely the Minoan and the Mycenaen. After this, a Dark Age followed until around 800 BC, when a new era of Greek city-states emerged, establishing colonies along the Mediterranean, and a new alphabet was introduced.[3]. Plato described how the Greeks live round the Aegean Archipelago "like frogs around a pond"; their name has always been associated with the sea. After the internal struggle between Spartans and Athenians, all parts of Greece were united under the rule of Alexander the Great and aimed at the defeat of the 'eastern threat' of the Persians. Alexander led the Greeks to a victorious campaign which established a Greek Empire and introduced a new era in world history, the Hellenistic.\n\n[edit]\nByzantine period\nMilitarily, Greece itself declined to the point that the Romans conquered the land (168 BC onwards), though, in many ways, Greek culture would in turn conquer Roman life. Greece became a province of the Roman Empire, but Greek culture continued to dominate the eastern Mediterranean. When the Roman Empire finally split in two, the Eastern Roman Empire, known as the Byzantine Empire, centered around Constantinople (known in ancient times as Byzantium), remained Greek in nature, encompassing Greece itself.\n\n \nThe most famous of the surviving Byzantine mosaics of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople — the image of Christ on the walls of the upper southern gallery. Christ is flanked by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist. The mosaics were made in the 12th century.During the period of the Byzantine Empire Greece experienced fluctuating fortunes. In the early years many of its works of art were looted by the emperors and taken to Constantinople. Furthermore, although the Byzantines retained control of the Aegean and its islands throughout this period, during the seventh and eighth centuries direct control did not extend far beyond the coast. From about AD 600 the old cities of Greece shrank considerably due to barbarian raids by the Avars and Slavs, and were often reduced to shadows of their former selves. As the seventh century progressed, much of Greece was overrun by Slavic peoples from the north, and a period of uncertainty and insecurity followed.\n\nFrom the late 8th century, the Empire began to recover from the devastating impact of successive invasions, and the reconquest of Greece began. Greeks from Sicily and Asia Minor were brought in as settlers. The Slavs were either driven out or assimilated. By the middle of the 9th century, Greece was dominated by those of Hellenic ethnic heritage once more, and Greek cities began to recover due to improved safeguards against barbarous incursion and restored central governance.\n\nThe invasions of the Turks after the battle of Manzikert in 1071 and the en
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:}\nJerusalem fell under the control of the Greek empire when conquered by Alexander the Great, After is death, the empire was divided into parts among his 4 generals. One of them Seleucid took control of Syria. One of the Greek-Syrian rulers Antiochus Epiphany  attempted to enforce the worship of Zeus the Greek God on the Jews. A revolt resulted led by Mattathias Maccabeus and his sons who eventually freed Jerusalem and the temple from Greek-Syrian control. The Jewish Holiday of  Hanukkah  celebrates that freeing of the temple and it’s rededication to the Lord
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It all started in Greece, some thousands years ago!\nMore than 2,600 years ago, Solon made a law that people would not be "owned" by lenders, if they can not pay back!\nWhen Cleisthenis was elected president of Athens, he erased all dues to the "Agricultural Bank"!\nGreeks used to have banks, until the Romans got Greece and destroyed all nice systems!\nThen, some centuries ago, the Pope of Rome declared that no Christians will own banks, thus paving the road to Jews of Europe to become bankers.\nMoney lending is necessary for a society to move forward, as long as it is done clearly and within real justice measures! \nIn our days, banks own not only properties, people, companies and governments but even states! And this is that I object! Especially when the lend money was transferred centuries ago!
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Did you mean Zeus? If so it would appear his host city was Oylmpia, Greece.\n\nOlympia is an ancient city in Greece which was the site of the Ancient Olympic Games. \nThe Olympics were of fundamental religious importance, contests alternating with sacrifices and ceremonies honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia famous for his legendary chariot race, in whose honour the games were held
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Well, I think for the most part there was not local administrators.  There are probably a few exceptions to this.  There was some form of local administration with the original colonies,  so that is the eastern most states, and Florida.  Also, Texas was an independent nation before joining the Union, so I believe it had some local forms of government.  Hawaii had a monarchy system, and is relatively Small, so I do not think it.  As for the vast majority that went the route of territory to state, for the most part they were administered as an entire territory under a civilian organization directly under Congress.  I do not believe there was any sort of county governments.  There were town councils and sheriffs, but nothing on a more organized level.
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Mainly from "tribute" -- taxes.  The cities they took from the Persians paid annual tribute to Athens, greatly enriching the city.  The Athenian Greeks also used the conquered areas as colonies, giving land grants to Greek citizens in the conquered areas, as there was little land left in Attica (where Athens is) that wasn't already owned.\nThe tribute was in the form of grain, precious metals, and work products (leather, pottery, etc.) which Athens usually traded (except for the grain) to further enrich the city.
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Ancient Athens, for much of its history, had a direct democracy, which however worked much like an oligarchy, because only land-owning male Athenians were full citizens. There was a a small, representative body called a Boule that decided small issues that came up on a day to day basis, but any major issue, such as declarations of war, was put up to a vote of all citizens.
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The most I have found is Hungary...I am going by the area that is within the current boundaries of hungary, and what was considered the "Kingdom of Hungary". Its pretty loose terms, but I dont see any other answers yet...\n\nHungary was part of the Roman province Pannonia...\nCapital was Aquincum.\n\nThen province split up, having 2 historic capitals...\nSavaria and Sopianae.\n\nThen came Kingdom of Hungary...\nSiscia and Sirmium.\n\nThen the country we know as Hungary today...\nSzsfeha 1000-1361\nBuda 1361-1541\nPozsony 1541-1848\nGyulafeha 1541-1699\nBuda (again) 1848-1873, but was ruled by Austria, so you can count Vienna as well, since it was Austria's Capital.\nAnd finally Budapest 1873-Present.\n\nSo thats about 12 if you get REALLY technical. But hey, whats the fun of it if you don't get technical?\n\nI'm sure there's something out there with more...\n\nUPDATE...\n\nOkay, After a little more looking up, China has had 13 capital changes but not different capitals, some of them are repeats.\n\nNOTE: Something that came as a surprise to me, USA has had 11 different Capitals, most coming during the civil war. See 2nd link below...\n\nALSO: Texas has had 11 State Capitals, the most of any state. What a fun question. see 3rd link.