These Greek city-states reached great levels of prosperity that resulted in an unprecedented cultural boom, that of classical Greece, expressed in architecture, drama, science, mathematics and philosophy, and nurtured in Athens under a democratic government.

These city-states were protected by the waterways and thick vegetation of the delta.

These planetary romances describe a desert Mars populated by barbarian warriors and citizens of decadent city-states, coming into explosive contact with Terran civilization.

These were generally small, but wealthy, trading states, like the Italian city-states and the Hanseatic League, in which the merchant class had risen to prominence.

These seals contain a set of proto-cuneiform signs which appear to be writings or symbols of the name of city-states in ancient Sumer.

These payments from commoners to nobles supported both the lavish lifestyles of the high nobility and the finances of city-states.

These colonies played an important role in the spread of Greek influence throughout Europe, and also aided in the establishment of long-distance trading networks between the Greek city-states, boosting the economy of ancient Greece.

These mercenaries fought the enemies of the Italian city-states, but in the following century they gradually became the rulers of the major polities south of Rome.

These peoples were not originally one united nation, but members of various different city-states.

These include for example the Amarna letters, which detail trade conducted between Memphis and the sovereigns of Babylon and the various city-states of Lebanon.

Several of the most densely populated territories in the world are city-states, microstates, or dependencies .< ref > The Monaco government uses a smaller surface area figure resulting in a population density of 18, 078 per km < sup > 2 </ sup ></ ref > These territories share a relatively small area and a high urbanization level, with an economically specialized city population drawing also on rural resources outside the area, illustrating the difference between high population density and overpopulation.

These began with the 1494 invasion by France that wreaked widespread devastation on Northern Italy and ended the independence of many of the city-states.

These factions include the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), which converted many of the world's remaining metropolitan centers into highly regulated city-states ; The Order, a religious order which created a new world religion from elements of all major religions and sociopolitical principles ; the " Knights Templar ", who advocate the complete prevention of biomodification ; the " Omar ", a society of heavily biomodified humans possessing a group mind, which runs a global black market, and wishes to become a transhuman race through biomodification ; and ApostleCorp, which seeks to help JC Denton achieve his goal of biomodifying every human on Earth, and thus equalizing the race.

These nomes originally existed as autonomous city-states, but later began to unify.

These city-states, with parliamentarian rule, created an original kind of culture under some influence from their western Baltic neighbors.

These early city-states had strong signs of government organization ( though social stratification was not strongly evident until very late in this period and the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period, beginning around 3100 BC ), evident even in items such as cheap, mass-produced beveled rim bowls which were made to be discarded.

These missions were built as miniature city-states that integrated indigenous populations with Christian faith.

These were mostly built by the growing city-states of Italy which were emerging as the dominant sea powers, including Venice, Genoa and Pisa.

These city-states had similar governmental structures based on the need to control flooding and store water for irrigating crops.

These city-states ruled the area in and around the Valley of Mexico from 1428 until they were defeated by the Spanish conquistadores and their native allies under Hernán Cortés in 1521.

These early city-states fought various small-scale wars with each other, but due to the shifting nature of alliances no individual city gained dominance.

These are traversed by another line of vaults, and thus rooms, arched on all four sides, are formed.

These lectures formed the nucleus of a general survey of English development which took form afterward as A History Of England.

These microfossils indicate the swamp was `` formed during the Lower Cretaceous period when dinosaurs were at their heyday and when the first flowering plants were just appearing.

These were educated men, who, as Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying, formed their inductions out of experience under the burden of responsibility.

These scripts formed the basis of the historical scripts of Central Asia, such as the Sogdian and Mongolian alphabets.

These images formed a valuable contribution to the history of transport, and particularly to its racing aspect .< ref >

These include all quadratic surds, all rational numbers, and all numbers that can be formed from these using the basic arithmetic operations and the extraction of square roots.

These ambers are formed from resins with a sesquiterpenoid base, such as cadinene.

These soon became so serious that a league was formed to crush him, and Maurice of Saxony led an army against his former comrade.

These juries formed a second mode for the expression of popular sovereignty ; as in the assembly, citizens acting as jurors acted as the people and were immune from review or punishment.

These elements, which formed the bulk of the population, were not averse to supporting a strong ruler who would protect them against the Arab aristocracy.

These deposits ultimately hold not only untapped reserves of gas and oil, they also house important secrets — from clues on past climate change to the ways in which mountains were formed.

These concepts formed the basis of the Wehrmacht's tactics during the Second World War.

These were reorganised further when Greater London was formed out of Middlesex and the County of London in 1965.

These soviets became the model for those formed in 1917.

These areas are grouped around asterisms ( which themselves are generally referred to in non-technical language as " constellations "), which are patterns formed by prominent stars within apparent proximity to one another on Earth's night sky.

These light elements keep being spread too fast and too tightly in the Big Bang process ( see nucleosynthesis ) due to which they formed stable medium-sized atomic nuclei, like iron and nickel.

These will help cosmologists settle the question of when and how structure formed in the universe.

These electronegative elements are strongly associated with metal-bearing minerals, where they have formed water-insoluble compounds with the metals in the ores.

These radicals are formed by the action of ultraviolet radiation on chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ).

These numbers are formed from a construction due to Gregory Chaitin.

These generic rules formed the basis of many of Chaosium's later RPGs, such as Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer, Nephilim, and Ringworld.

These relatively lightly armored horsemen formed the most effective element of the Muslim armies during the later stages of the Islamic conquest of the Levant.

These carrier groups eventually formed the Fast Carrier Task Force, which became the primary battle force of the U. S. Fifth and Third Fleets.

These rules formed the basis of the d20 System that is available under the Open Game License for use by other publishers.