Explain the factors that led the revival of Italian cities

1.	Explain the factors that led the revival of Italian cities
Answer» The\xa0Italian city-states\xa0were a political phenomenon of small independent states mostly in the central and northern\xa0Italian Peninsula\xa0between the 9th and the 15th centuries.After the\xa0fall of the Western Roman Empire, urban settlements in Italy generally enjoyed a greater continuity than in the rest of western\xa0Europe. Many of these towns were survivors of earlier\xa0Etruscan, Umbrian and Roman towns which had existed within the Roman Empire. The republican institutions of Rome had also survived. Some\xa0feudal lords\xa0existed with a servile labour force and huge tracts of land, but by the 11th century, many cities, including\xa0Venice,\xa0Milan,\xa0Florence,\xa0Genoa,\xa0Pisa,\xa0Lucca,\xa0Cremona,\xa0Siena,\xa0Città di Castello,\xa0Perugia, and many others, had become large trading metropoles, able to obtain independence from their formal sovereigns.

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