2019
DOI: 10.1007/s10814-019-09130-z
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Advances in City-State Research, with an Example from Mesoamerica

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“…Athens was about 2500 km 2 (Hansen 2000(Hansen , 2006Cornell 2000). From my study of 74 Late Post-classic (AD 1300-1520) city-states in highland Oaxaca known archaeologically and ethnohistorically (Kowalewski 2020), the mean territory size is about 75 km 2 and the largest are about 300 km 2 . This is similar to the Aztec examples in Central Mexico (Hodge 1984(Hodge , 1997Smith 2008).…”
Section: Mesoamerican and Greek City-statesmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Athens was about 2500 km 2 (Hansen 2000(Hansen , 2006Cornell 2000). From my study of 74 Late Post-classic (AD 1300-1520) city-states in highland Oaxaca known archaeologically and ethnohistorically (Kowalewski 2020), the mean territory size is about 75 km 2 and the largest are about 300 km 2 . This is similar to the Aztec examples in Central Mexico (Hodge 1984(Hodge , 1997Smith 2008).…”
Section: Mesoamerican and Greek City-statesmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…And yet, when these cities lost population and power during the first mil-lennium CE, the subsequent polities were smaller yet more autocratic in form. In the Southern Highlands, after Monte Albán, Mixtec-Zapotec kings ruled small city-states that jockeyed for power (Feinman and Nicholas 2016;Kowalewski 2020). In Central Mexico, late in the prehispanic era, the Aztec empire was established through the Triple Alliance (Smith 2011b).…”
Section: Prehispanic Mesoamerica: Comparative Perspectivesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this article, I address sovereignty among hierarchically organized human groups variously called complex chiefdoms, archaic states, micro‐states, city‐states, or kingdoms (e.g., Clark 2016; Feinman and Marcus 1998; Hansen 2000; Kowalewski 2020; Trigger 2003). Sovereignty is defined as the acknowledged power over life and death within a domain, the ability to tax and punish for nonpayment as well as control of a geographical territory that is distinct from sovereign neighbors.…”
Section: Figurementioning
confidence: 99%