Poverty and Culture

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Jeffery L. Wright
Humanities 540
Professor Bryan Feuer
09 March 2005
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The Greek cities that developed at the beginning of the archaic period were known as polis. Each of these polis, or cities was comprised of a collection of poor self governing people. The polis was a form of two cities. There was a lower city, in which the people lived, and a high city, or acropolis, an elevated place in the center of the city. Usually the acropolis is where you would find the temple of th…