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 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 city-states formed during the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology ( ca.

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 were the ones Keith sought out -- the loners, the ones who killed for the joy of it, like himself.

These were the last words he ever uttered.

These two were going to be easy pickins.

These performances were being staged at historical monuments throughout Europe.

These were Oneida Indians.

These conceptions and the manner in which they were transposed into poetry or engendered by poetic form are intrinsic to western life from the time of Aeschylus to that of Shakespeare.

These basic ideas concerning the nature of religion were, Adams believed, some of the major keys to the understanding of history and the movement of society.

These were his public academic activities, domi forisque, in the college and in the university.

These early experiments were evidently not altogether satisfying to Patchen.

These people were not talking much about it, but you, a foreigner, sensed their apprehension and disappointment.

These public efforts were rare because Mr. Rayburn normally did his counseling, persuading and educating long before an issue reached its test on the House floor.

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 heroes nine feet tall to him ''.

These little songs, however, were sweet nothings from the heart, tender memories of his childhood, little melodies that anyone could hum and that would make one want to weep.

These were the ships of His Majesty's Navy, herding the hulks of the East Indies merchants and the yachts and ketches of the loyalists.

These trumps were more touching than they were anything else, and seemed to imply that the nights were long, her children ungrateful, and her marriage bewilderingly threadbare.

These were selected carefully and included not only detailed clinical information but adequate pathology of value for research and educational purposes.

These amendments to the Vocational Rehabilitation Act were designed to help provide for more specialized rehabilitation facilities, for more sheltered and `` half-way '' workshops, for greater numbers of adequately trained personnel, for more comprehensive services to individuals ( particularly to the homebound and the blind ), and for other administrative improvements to increase the program's overall effectiveness.

These plans, like Du Pont's, contained provisions for passing the vote on Du Pont's General Motors shares on to the ultimate stockholders of Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, except that officers and directors of the three companies, their spouses, and other people living in their households, as well as other specified persons, were to be totally disenfranchised.

These curves were derived by an analysis of extensive skywave measurement data.

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 boys acknowledged an introduction to anybody by gently pressing one of his hands in both of theirs, while they gazed, misty-eyed with care, into the eyes of the person they were meeting.