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Remains of ancient Roman influence on Greece can be seen throughout the country, such as this Galerius arch in Hara’s hometown of Thessaloniki.

Ancient Greece What is Greece today began as a collection of villages that slowly gathered themselves together into city-states. These city-stateswere run ina variety of ways, from kingdoms to outright tyrannies . However, one of them, Athens, eventually used a new form of government it called democracy, which in the Greek language of the time meant “rule by the people.”(Of course, thatwas a loose definition.Womendidnot have votes, nor did all the men. Only a group of land-owning “citizens” earned the right to vote. And

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