How were the Greek city-states "unified"?

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Think of a village of feuding farming families out in the wilderness. They are all relatives, but they are always squabbling, and even get into violent fights with each other over property lines and stolen cattle.

But when they are threatened by an outlaw gang, they (mostly) (temporarily) cooperate until the gang is run off. (I say "mostly" because one or two family wind up supporting the outlaws.) Note that they frequently don't actually unify, they just --sometimes -- work for a time under one leader.

Then they return to the feuding.

This, in small, is a pretty good model of the ancient Greeks.

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