B. <span>It was weak militarily, but it was a Golden Age for the economy and the arts.
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The technique of Robert Browning in "my last duchess" is known as a dramatic monologue. This is so because all the poem is expressed in one voice only, as oppossed to a dialogue, where more voices would appear. And it is dramatic because it contains all the elements of drama.
The polis emerged from dark ages which followed the fall of the mycenaean civilization in Greece and by the 8th century bce a significant process of urbanization had begun
