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Dukes, administrators, and clergy lived in towns rather than isolated castles, absorbing the hinterland into communes, forerunners of the city-states.
But it proved to be the most fruitful, all too tempting to the acquisitive appetites of France, Spain, and rival Italian duchies and city-states such as Venice, which pushed its Serene Republic as far west as Bergamo.
Arriving in the eighth century b.c. , the Greeks set up city-states in Sicily, dominated by Syracuse, as well as other settlements on the Italian mainland, such as Naples, Paestum, and Taranto.
Several islands and Greek city-states agreed to work together, and created a treasury to fund their plans, which was held on the island of Delos.
A new national fraternity of scholars with expertise in the arts, sciences, and law emerged as itinerant consultants to visionary rulers eager to make their city-states centers of cultural prestige and political propaganda.