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However, Greece was not yet a country; each city-state was self-governing and autonomous.
In the year ending in April, China ran a trade surplus of almost $24 billion--but Hong Kong, as one would expect for a mainly service-producing city-state, ran an offsetting deficit of $19 billion, reducing the total to a fairly unimpressive $4.
Athens, the largest city-state, gradually embraced all of the Attica peninsula.
No important decisions of state could be made without consulting the Oracle here, and when the Colossus of Rhodes was toppled in an earthquake the people of that city-state in the Aegean left it where it lay after advice from the Oracle not to rebuild it.
This was not the port that served the city-state of Athens because it could not be seen from the city and was therefore vulnerable to attack.