Ancient Greece was divided into a collection of city-states (or Polis) because the population centers were isolated by the many islands, peninsulas and mountains that Ancient Greece had. Because of its geography, it made more sense for each Poli to have a government on their own.
federal Taxes were too high.
Federal Gov't was too strong and put too many rules in place on states.
Rugged Individualism, that individuals should take care themselves and not rely on Federal Gov't to help (poor) or regulate (rules)
You could write your paragraph about the fact that Hammurabi’s code shows evidence of laws. Or the fact that this implies currency or some sort of trade. This also heavily implies a class system which I feel would be easy to write about.
The best example of the influence of Athenian democracy on later governments is the representative democracy of the United States. One shared quality is the amount of nationalism and patriotism seen in the people and government.
Typhus is the answer i beleive
