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He uses Macedon as an example of a marginal outside people who adopted Greek city-state military innovations and conquered the Greek city-states, Persia, and Egypt.
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Greek City States
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "okay an example is the Greek city states it's really the height of human civilization they gave us homer plato for cities uh sophocles..."
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"...the sole hegemon, okay? So we saw this with the Greek city -states where for hundreds of years they were in competition with each..."
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"I'm sure you know who he is, but you may not know he was Macedonian. Who's the most famous Greek you've heard of? Yeah,..."
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"okay an example is the Greek city states it's really the height of human civilization they gave us homer plato for cities uh sophocles..."
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"unifier of the greek city states and in fact what happened was that athens did become an empire but then the other the other..."
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"...into warring city states okay very similar situation to the greek city states and the chinese city states then what's happening is the aztecs..."
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"...happened with the chinese warring states as well as the greek city states and you would assume that one of these city states would..."
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"...a good analogy um it's a Greek polis right the Greek city states and you will have diversity of government but you will definitely..."
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"...to Athens okay so all that's happened is before these Greek city -states had"
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"...wealthy parthenon was largely built using funds collected from other greek city -states for mutual defense against persia correct uh nikos says i do..."
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"...only then, but even then, only a few of the Greek city -states came together and some even joined the Persians. Okay? So the..."
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"...like this, okay? So we will also be studying the Greek city -states. In fact, we will spend a"
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"lot of time on the Greek city -states like Athens and Sparta and Thebes because before, we actually thought the origin of Western civilization..."
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