The first major movement to bring about a great amount of productivity was the start of the Cottage and Guild Industries. These needed human labor and by placing people doing similar tasks and the next task in another group's hands not far away helped to speed things up. One person wasn't doing everything.
Unlike their Minoan and Mycenean ancestors, the Ancient Greeks did not have royalty, and therefore had no need for palaces. This was why their architecture was devoted to public buildings, such as the temple, including the small circular variant (tholos); the central market place (agora), with its covered colonnade (stoa); the monumental gateway or processional entrance (propylon); the council building (bouleuterion) the open-air theatre; the gymnasium (palaestra); the hippodrome (horse racing); the stadium (athletics); and the monumental tomb (mausoleum). But of all these buildings, it is the temple that best captures the qualities of Greek design.
first, it gives the candidate a picture of where they stand with the electorate before any camaingning takes place
