Historians must have certain qualities of character, such as:
impatience
accuracy
honesty
bias

religion was the center of there society they practiced human sacrifices and which they believed kept there god strong and that he would keep bad guys away hope this

polisit can also mean a body of citizens. in modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient greek city-states, like classical athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". the body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient greece.