Which statements accurately describe northern italian renaissance city-states?
choose all answers that are correct.
a.
many italian city-states of the renaissance were republics.
b.
city-states were independently ruled cities and the land around them.
c.
many city-states chose to merge in order to protect their borders.
d.
leadership of the city-states was based on heredity.

Italy was a group or the number of city-states, each of which has its own rule such as the Pope ruling in Rome, the Medici family that is ruling in Florence, the Doge basically ruling in Venice, the Sforza family served for ruling in Milan, the Este family which was ruling in the Ferrara and there is a long list that is consist of all the states of the cities and the ruling families of the ruling people at the time of he Renaissance.

the answers is b.   environments.