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Chapter 11: How the Greek City-States United — World History 101

Ancient Greece’s polis culture, the Persian Wars, the rise of Athenian democracy, and the rivalry with Sparta that culminated in the Peloponnesian War.
Chapter 21: The Golden Age of the Mayans — World History 101

How a network of Mesoamerican city-states became the longest-running advanced civilization in the Americas, leaving behind monumental stone architecture and a calendar so precise it sparked a modern doomsday myth.