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the Italian city-states were rich and powerful because of trade.
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the rich and the powerful
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You said it in your question. They were rich and powerful so they could have things poor people couldn’t have.
The plantation owners; because they were rich and powerful.
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To gain land for farming
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values are not as deeply ingrained and that changing economic opportunities