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A city-state, or polis, was the community structure of ancient Greece. Each city-state was organized with an urban center and the surrounding countryside. Characteristics of the city in a polis were outer walls for protection, as well as a public space that included temples and government buildings. The temples and government buildings were often built on the top of a hill, or acropolis. A surviving example of a structure central to an ancient acropolis is the famous Parthenon of Athens. The Parthenon was a temple built to honor the goddess Athena. The majority of a polis’s population lived in the city, as it was the center of trade, commerce, culture, and political activity.
There grew to be over 1,000 city-states in ancient Greece, but the main poleis were Athína (Athens), Spárti (Sparta), Kórinthos (Corinth), Thíva (Thebes), Siracusa (Syracuse), Égina (Aegina), Ródos (Rhodes), Árgos, Erétria, and Elis. Each city-state ruled itself. They differed greatly from the each other in governing philosophies and interests. For example, Sparta was ruled by two kings and a council of elders. It emphasized maintaining a strong military, while Athens valued education and art. In Athens every male citizen had the right to vote, so they were ruled by a democracy. Rather than have a strong army, Athens maintained their navy.
Greek city-states likely developed because of the physical geography of the Mediterranean region. The landscape features rocky, mountainous land and many islands. These physical barriers caused population centers to be relatively isolated from each other. The sea was often the easiest way to move from place to place. Another reason city-states formed, rather than a central, all-encompassing monarchy, was that the Greek aristocracy strove to maintain their city-states’ independence and to unseat any potential tyra
The dominant motion along the fault is primarily horizontal, but some areas also have vertical motion
HI is most noticeable during the summer and winter. The main cause of the urban heat island effect is from the modification of land surfaces. Waste heat generated by energy usage is a secondary contributor. As a population center grows, it tends to expand its area and increase its average temperature.
The correct answer is South America.
Explanation
The graph shows the change in forest cover across various regions such as Eastern and Southern Africa, Northern Africa, Western and Central Africa, East Asia, South and Southeast Asia, Western and Central Asia, Europe, Caribbean, Central America, North America, Oceania and South America of the world between 1990 and 2010 (divided into four groups 1990, 2000, 2005 and 2010). According to the graph the region with less change in forest cover is North America because through those years, there were close to 700.000 Ha; the region with the most increase of forest cover is East Asia because in 1990 there were close to 200.000 Ha and in 2010 there were close to 270.000 Ha, and the region with the most decrease of forest cover is South America because in 1990 there were close to 930.000 Ha and in 2010 there were close to 850.000 Ha. According to the above, the correct answer is South America.
