Use the following terms to describe the rise of city - state's

City states, like those in Ancient Greece were thriving centers of commerce and trade.  Athens the most famous of the states was led by a fellow named Pericles he was a brilliant general,  orator, patron of the arts, and politician.  Philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates flourished in Athens where a new idea known as Democracy was being tested.  Sparta the polar opposite was warlike state under the rule of Leonidas who died in the battle of thermopylae.