Assertion: city state | /r/HasProperty | independence
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text: Another reason city-states formed, rather than a central, all-encompassing monarchy, was that the Greek aristocracy strove to maintain their city-states’ independence and to unseat any potential tyrants.
text: A city-state is an independent city — and sometimes its surrounding land — which has its own government, completely separate from nearby countries.
text: Simply stated, a city-state is an independent country that exists completely within the borders of a single city.
text: Each city-state was an actually an independent kingdom but sometimes one would dominate the others.