What commonalities did "successful" cities share that allowed them to survive the economic shifts during this period?
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Particularly in the Italian city-states, there are some shared characteristics that extended their urban identification. In Northern Italy, cities that had been Lombard strongholds and capitals were revitalized and the buildings were repurposed. Bishops assumed municipal authority in some. Italian cities used the same grid structure that had been used in Roman urban planning. The Italian city-states were better equipped to do this than other areas because the Franks lacked resources to maintain the Roman infrastructure like sewers, walls, road systems, etc. Proximity to access routes for trade, for example in port cities, could rebuild their economies more successfully than interior, land-bound territories. Finally, areas that were in less contention and were not subject to war (as in the partible Frankish kingdoms) had better chances to maintain political and economic stability.
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a. the U.S. State and Defense Departments. b. evangelical Christians. c. Congress. d. the Catholic church. e. the Arab oil countries.
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