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At the same time, city-states began to grow in influence on the southern Greek mainland.
While mainland Greece was reaching its zenith during the Classical Age (480–338 b.c.), the island remained a backwater of warring city-states, of which Górtis was the most powerful.
It took the Romans three years of brutal fighting to conquer Crete in 67 b.c., and they did so only by playing the rival city-states against one another.
By the end of the 13th century, with the independent-minded communes growing into full-fledged city-states, Italy was clearly not to be subjugated to the will of one ruler.
By the eighth century b.c. the 12 main city-states of Ionia, including Ephesus, Priene, and Miletus, had formed what was known as the Pan-Ionic League.