Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each feature: classical polis or Hellenistic kingdom?
Groups: Classical polis · Hellenistic kingdom
- Sovereign citizen assembly
- Ruler cult with divine honours
- Citizen militia of farmer-soldiers
- Politics as petition to a court
- Politics as debate among equals
- Professional army paid from royal treasury
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- One world was small and self-governing, the other vast and ruled.
- Civic institutions survived without sovereignty.
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Classical polis: Sovereign citizen assembly, Citizen militia of farmer-soldiers, Politics as debate among equals
Hellenistic kingdom: Ruler cult with divine honours, Professional army paid from royal treasury, Politics as petition to a court
Why
The trade nobody voted for: a vast connected world with no sovereignty, replacing a small world that governed itself. Civic life continued, as pageantry.
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