Question

The Greek polis began as ____________.

Answer 1

A collection of City-states along the Balkan Mountains and the Adriatic and Mediterranean seas.

Answer 2

In modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient Greek city-states, like Classical Athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". ... The body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient Greece.