Answer: Trade made the city-states wealthy. Many were successful and powerful because they specialized and were located in the middle of trade routes. Venice was the most powerful Italian city-state and it specialized in shipping allowing it to control the trade routes in the Mediterranean Sea.
After the Invasion of france, they would launch them off the west coast of france. This would help them get to most of the western and southern countrys borders to stop convoys
May 24, 1819
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It convinced many of the American colonists to want break away from Great Britain.