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- Over the next 2000 years , some large cities became 'city-states' by developing governing systems .
What does city-state mean?
City
one large settlement
State
rules the land around it
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City-state = A city that rules its own region
- A city-state is a sovereign state centred around a city that rules the surrounding territories .
- Sovereign means fully independent, ruled by nobody else.
So a city-state is not just a city. It is a city that rules the land around it .
