It was because the city states are bigger than modern states or cities but back then they had different things from this time
The correct answer is personalization.
This is a type of fallacy where you involve somebody's personality into an argument, even though it is completely unnecessary or wrong to do that. For example, if you are going to a dinner party and you are late, and the dinner is overcooked (completely unrelated to you being late), you might start thinking that it happened because of your tardiness, whereas that is obviously not the case.
I believe the term you’re looking for it tribe.
Talking on the phone while driving a car is an example of inattentional blindness. The definition of inattentional blindness according to Wikipedia is a physcological lack of attention that is not associated with any vision defects or deficits.
