Wealthy merchants such as cosimo de’ medici ruled italian

I think it is City-States but your question is not a question

when in doubt choose c

it's what my teacher told my class when we were going into psats

answer: born in saint-dié, in the vosges department, france, he studied law, and was called to the bar at paris in 1854,[2] but soon went into politics, contributing to various newspapers, particularly to le temps. he attacked the second french empire with great violence, directing his opposition especially against baron haussmann, prefect of the seine department. a series of his articles in le temps was later republished as the fantastic tales of haussmannlaxupa (1868).[2]

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