Italy never had a strong feudal system. why did this make it easier for city-states to develop?

Feudal systems are arcane and hierarchal and actually stunt development. The city-states were free of the loyalties and hierarchies of feudal states. They were dynamic sites for entrepreneurship.

Explanation: City-states were the precursors of modern empires

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

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