is t ee was short-lived and confined (1). ........ a very small geographic area. Yet it has influenced the growth (2). Western civilization far out of proportion to (3) ....... size and duration. In ancient times Greece was not a country in the modern sense (4). , a collection of several hundred independent EVE cities, each with its surrounding countryside. (5) .......... these cities were independent political units they are known as city-states. In Greek, the word for city-state is polis, and the English word politics comes (6).......... it. The Greece (7). .........Poe praised was primarily the city-state of Athens during its golden age in the 5th century BC. The English poet John Milton called Athens "the eye of Greece, mother of arts and elo quence." Athens was a city-state in (8) .......... the arts, philosophy, and democracy flourished. It at tracted (9).. who wanted to work, speak, and think in an environment of freedom. In the rarefier atmosphere of Athens were born ideas (10) ...... human nature and political society that are funda mental to the Western world today.​