Components of the city-states?

Question

I need information on the city-states in the Ancient Near East.
Also on the Sumerian city-state.

Answer 1

The first cities with a world outlook were the Greek, Phoenician, and Etruscan city-states....
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Sumer was a collection of city-states around the Lower Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now southern Iraq. Each of these cities had individual rulers although ....
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Answer 2

A city-state is a region controlled exclusively by a city, usually having sovereignty. Historically, city-states have often been part of larger cultural areas, as in the city-states of ancient Greece (such as Athens, Sparta and Corinth), the Phoenician cities of Canaan (such as Tyre and Sidon), the Mayans of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (including sites such as Chichen Itza and El Mirador), the central Asian cities along the Silk Road (which includes Samarkand and Bukhara), or the city-states of Northern Italy (especially Florence and Venice).

City-states were common in ancient times. Though sovereign, many such cities joined in formal or informal leagues under a high king. In some cases, historical empires or leagues were formed by the right of conquest (e.g., Mycenae, or Rome), but many were formed under peaceful alliances or for mutual protection (e.g., the Peloponnesian League).

In the Middle Ages, city-states were particularly a feature of what are now Germany, Italy and Russia. A number of them formed the Hanseatic League, which was a significant force in trade for a number of centuries.

City-states have contributed to the development of civilization in a measure vastly disproportionate to their size. Among the most creative periods in human history are those in which humanity organized itself in small independent centers. Modern Europe owes much of its civilization to three such periods -- the ancient tribes of Israel, the small Greek city-states, and the city-states of Renaissance Italy. However, these small creative groupings usually survived for only short periods of time because they lacked the size and strength to defend themselves against the onslaught of larger social entities. In addition, the success of small regional units coexisting as disunited parts of a loose geographical and cultural unity, as in Italy or Hellas (Greece), acted as a barrier to the creation of larger national units with greater staying power. Thus, they inevitably gave way to larger organizations of society, the empire and eventually the nation-state..


Ancient city-states
Examples include:

Cities of the Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia (Sumer, Assyria), Anatolia (Hittites, Mitanni), Levant.
The poleis of Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Jericho, in the Levant
Mayan city-states
Phoenician cities (incl. Carthage)
Troy, a Greek city state in Asia minor
The city-states of the Shang and Zhou dynasties
The Yoruba city states of Eko(now Lagos) and Ibidan.

Answer 3

cities, and states. that's about it.