While lacking official political power, women contributed to the shaping of society, what anthropologists call liminal. ... In a procession fresco from Knossos, the main political palace of Minoan civilization, the priestess is shown receiving tribute, adulation and worship from two approaching lines of men. ... Some villages became larger political units known as poleis or city-states. ... Politically, the Greek world went through various forms of government structure from hereditary monarchies, to oligarchies, to dictatorships and democracies. ...

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It shows that the people led a lifestyle that included agriculture, curiosity about nature and a developed political structure that was needed to organize the building of these structures. ... Every will of the divine was considered correct because of the political circumstance. ...

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This represented a weakness in the state and economic structure that hindered its power, and Aristotle (from The Politics, quoted in Hennessy, 1991, 69) is critical of Sparta's brutal methods employed to control them as he states "results of this kind go to show that the state has yet to learn the right method of handling its subject population", in reference to Sparta's annual war against the Helots and use of the Krypteia. ... David (1986, 70) maintains that "The consequences of this radical change (were) the acquisition of more lands by the rich, the growing poverty of the masses,...

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