Well, I can tell you for sure that a is not the answer. But I think the answer would be b.
Answer:
Milan, Florence, Pisa, Siena, Genoa, Ferrara, Mantua, Verona, and Venice.
Answer: Not all people were ready or excepting of this culture because they had just came out of slavery. The idea of a culturally diverse community was very new to people of this time.
because they used them for jobs and relied on them to operate