The rise of the polis is based upon critical, economic, military,social,and political changes, all of which produce a world that's really strikingly different from the one that was just before it.

城邦的兴起是基于关键方面,经济,军事,社会 和政治的变革,所有的一切都造就了一个,与之前的时代截然不同的新世界

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Before we get to that, I should say that the Greeks have already, before this period of the polis and the period of colonization which is connected with the rise of the polis, centuries before that the greeks had already spread out from their original settlements.

在我们深究此前,我得先说,在城邦时期和殖民地时期之前,即跟城邦兴起的两个关联时期,希腊人已在数百年前,从最初的家园往外移民

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

One answer, and it's the one that is most widely believed among Greek scholars, is that the growth of population that we have mentioned in connection with the rise of the polis is still working once the polis comes into form.

原因之一是,这个原因是被广大古希腊学者们所接受的,那就是,人口的增长与城邦的数量,在城邦兴起的阶段还是基本一致的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选