Answer: okay I’m too lazy to type it down but just look at the picture :)
If you're referring to the Civil War era, in the years leading up to the war, once such compromise could have been that slavery could continue to exist where it was, but not spread to other states.
<span>Prior to the development of city-states, people lived in rural spread out hamlets, which were subject to frequent raids by other factions. By concentrating people in a more protected settlement, which was the forerunner of the city-state, people had an increased survival rate.</span>
<span>they both wanted a powerful government</span>