| It had atomised city states whose history seemed to consist of a stream of battles. |
| What do coral reefs, Italian Renaissance city states and Twitter have in common? |
| However, in small city states like Singapore, evolving the city of the future will be very different. |
| In the land of Canaan, city states like Hazor and Megiddo flourished under Egyptian hegemony. |
| The ancient Bronze Age witnessed the establishment of the first independent city states. |
| Yarvin proposes that countries should be small — city states, really — and that all they should compete for citizens. |
