Italy used to be a dozen city states... And before that, Italy, France, Greece, ...

		aetherson on Jan 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fel... Italy used to be a dozen city states... And before that, Italy, France, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, a bunch of Baltic nations, England, and a bunch of others were all one state. The number of states waxes and wanes throughout history, there's not a clear trend.