Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would barely qualify as towns in modern terms. Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained ...

It would be another three centuries before Rome absorbed the Greek city-states into its own empire ... Scholar Confucius was born. Probably writing around the same time as Cleisthenes brought ...

Our civilisation has grown from small, rival communities, often cut off from each other by mountains, rivers and the sea, to create the city-states ... learn reading, writing, maths, music ...