Why did Greece split up into many city states,rather than one unified state?

Please help I have this homework I have to do and I've read the part i'm supposed to read and it doesn't say why there were just city-states. It just said there are city-states. I hate the book we are using because it assumes that you know everything! : /





Pleasee help mee! I'll ratee best answers! 10 easy points!!Why did Greece split up into many city states,rather than one unified state?
Greece didn't split into city states - those city states grew and developed independently





The bounds of the ancient polis often centered around a citadel, called the acropolis, and would of necessity also have an agora (market) and typically one or more temples and a gymnasium. Note that many of a polis' citizens would have lived in the suburbs or countryside. The Greeks did not regard the polis as a territorial grouping so much as a religious and political association: while the polis would control territory and colonies beyond the city itself, the polis would not simply consist of a geographical area.





Each city was composed of several tribes or demes, which were in turn composed of phratries, and finally gentes. Metics (resident foreigners) and slaves lay outside this organization. Birth typically determined citizenship. Each polis would also worship a number of patron deities for protection and kept its own particular festivals and customs.





In the East beyond Asia Minor a major instrument of hellenization by Alexander the Great was the polis. He is said to have founded no fewer than seventy cities, destined to become centers of Greek influence; and the great majority of these were in lands in which city-life was almost unknown. In this respect his example was emulated by his successors, the diadochi.





Polis was frequently divided into three types of inhabitants. The first, and highest, “group” of inhabitants are citizens with political rights. Then there are the citizens without political rights. Lastly there are the non-citizens.