The meeting of the estates-general in 1789 marked a significant step toward revolution in france because it:

to unite muslims and hindus in resistance against british colonialism.

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.