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1. Greek City States

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   Oligarchy and Aristocracy
   In many states, power remained vested in a small group of wealthy or noble families. In Corinth, for example, the Bacchiadae ruled by consensus until the rise of the Cypselid tyranny. Oligarchies often justified their rule through appeals to ancestral right or proprietary claims over strategic resources, such as the specialized production of purple dye derived from local sea snails [2].
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