The people of the Peloponnesian peninsula shared a common language and religion
were at constant war with each other
were united because of the flat, open countryside which made it easy to travel between different communities
were separated by rugged hills leaving them disconnected and not united

Independent executive agencies are more specialised.

The constant presence of diseases or infectious agents within a given geographic area or population group. it may also refer to the usual prevalence of a given disease with such area or group. it includes holoendemic and hyperendemic diseases. a holoendemic disease is one for which a high prevalent level of infection begins early in life and affects most of the child population, leading to a state of equilibrium such that the adult population shows evidence of the disease much less commonly than do children (malaria in many communities is a holoendemic disease). a hyperendemic disease is one that is constantly present at a high incidence and/or prevalence rate and affects all groups equally. so probably family history.