City-state

=City State= A city state is a form of political organization that was used in Greek, Sumerian, Yoruba, and Mesoamerican civilizations. It also had an influence on Roman civilization. City States were small agricultural societies ruled by a regional king who taxed the common people. In some societies, Yoruba and Sumer, the king was considered divine. Unlike the unified political organization used in areas such as China, city states involved fewer peoples organized into smaller organized societies politically independent of each other. Even though city states are politically independent of each other, they still have ties to each other in that historically city states make up a larger civilization such as Greece, Sumer, Yoruba, and the Aztecs.

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