Greek And Persian Political Differences

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1.1 The key political differences between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire were as follows; the Greek cities govern themselves and had different ideas as how they treated the people within their own city. For example, the Sparta was ruled by two hereditary kings in conjunction with elected board of advisors. Corinth was governed by a mercantile oligarchy, and Athens by constitutional democracy. Whereas the Persian encompassed disparate cultures and people. The Persians allowed defeated kings to continue to ruling their kingdom under the condition that they swear allegiance to the Persian Empire and pay taxes.
1.2 The key differences between the ‘Strangford Apollo’ and the ‘Kritios Boy the composition and proportions. For example,

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