The Polis: The Rise And Fall Of The Oikoi System
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The polis came into being a form of political organization to deal with the aftermath of the diminishing dominance of the system where there was a paramount basileus in charge of the other lower basileis. Moving away from the chief system because “chiefs who did not deal with the conflicts of [population growth] created would not last long, but those who did resolve them became much more powerful than Dark Age basileis.” (Morris: pg. 71) allowed the chiefs to find solutions that dealt with the conflicts such as inequality among social class and unequal land distribution that came with the increase in population. The unification of the different oikoi in each polis did not occur similarly for all poleis as they all differed in both size and