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Western Civilization · Chapter 2

Forge a Polis: Two Answers to One Problem

It is roughly 700 BCE. You lead a small Greek community with more sons than farmland — the same squeeze that Sparta and Athens both faced. Make the four founding decisions below. Each one narrows the next, and together they harden into a constitution: watch the state sheet, the fighting line and the citizen-body curve change as you choose.

Four founding decisions

Your state sheet

The fighting line

Citizen body, 700–350 BCE