Jack is writing an essay about Europe during the Middle Ages. Read the paragraph about the rise of cities, and choose the correct phrases to complete the sentences.
After the Black Death ended, people started to move to the cities, Florence was one of the first cities to get the plague, and it was the first
to recover. One of the main reasons people moved to cities was that
. As more people moved from
rural areas, the
began declining. Nobles had less power, and wealthy businesspeople gained more power.