Why have city states fallen out of fashion?

>>2291279
Because they typically ended up being annexed by non-meme states. That being said....
>monaco
>luxumbourgh
>San Marino
>Singapore

might is right

>>2291279
>ROMan empire
Empires are just very powerful city States

>>2291401
Are those really autonomous city states though

>>2291401

Luxembourg is a small country not a city state.

>>2291279
Technology made the unification of people easier and more proficient. It also allowed greater standardization. This means Larger states outweigh city states.

They could no longer compete with increasingly centralized monarchies and their metropole capital cities like Paris or Constantinople.

>>2291434
yea all of them are
though Luxemburg isn't a city state.

out of those though Singapore is the only one that truly stands on its own.
>>2291279
because while they can be incredibly wealthy they are often lacking in defense making them delicious prizes for any larger neighbors.

Hong Kong is significantly more wealthy than anywhere else in China which is why China is so desperate to fully integrate it.

>>2291733
>>2291755

Luxembourg is nothing else but a city state, there used to be a lot of them near Luxemburg, most under some formal relationship with the holy roman empire, as with the Hanseatic cities.

City states are not autosufficient and rely mostly on commercial wealth and sometimes on a single natural resource. With the industrial revolution there was the need for highly integrated territories, so it became very hard for city states to exist. That is why Prussia annexed most of Germany using its customs and post union.

Concerning the old pre-alexandrian city-states of Greece, Phoenicia and their colonies, it may have to do with valuable resources being concentrated or not.

The first city states of the bronze age (very small ones) had the need for tin, which was a concentrated resource as usable material at the time. It meant their had to be a trade network, but by opposition a centralized administration would not be very useful in a sparsely populated territory (the Mediterranean Sea) whith the first densely populated cities.

At the beginning of the Iron Age (Iron can be found everywhere) the trade network collapsed leaving a lot of small city-states or island-states to lose power and sometimes starve. The losely organized Hittite empire based on a city network collapsed. Phoenicia, Palestine, and Syria were reorganized as Kingdoms. The Neo-Assyrian empire arose and these states gained influence in Greece.

Progress in navigation and military technologies also meant the critical size of a city had to be greater just to be able to defend itself. That was the developpment of classical Greece.

The city-states of classical Greece were not very independent, with the exception of the most powerful (Corinth, Athenes, Sparta, Thebes, Argos) and the sacred cities (Delphes, Olympia) which enjoyed Vatican-like independency. The fact that a lot of island, cities or colonies enjoyed some kind of independence was largely a pure geographical fact.

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Capitalists want oil and ore so they have to draw lines in the forests and deserts to mark their claims.

>>2291279
Nationalism.

Next?

>>2291279
>>2291401
Don't forget the memiest of all, "Vatican City."

>>2291845
interesting ty for the exposition

>>2291733
Was Rome not a city state when it controlled a small area around it in central italy?

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>>2293409
Vatican "City"

I mean, they are indisputably on the Vatican hill but to call it a city is just ridiculous. The whole thing is like 4 blocks.