Paraphrasing: How did diplomacy help city-states?

a memoir is the correct answer

the sugar act, also known as the american revenue act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the british parliament of great britain in april of 1764. the earlier molasses act of 1733, which had imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively collected due to colonial resistance and evasion.

asthenosphere/ lithosphere would be the answer