Using the Italian City-States map, which Italian city-state connected the rest of the Italian city-states with neighboring empires?

If your answers look like this a) expansion through conquestb) development of a calendar c) development of a written language d) creation of a large road workthen the answer is dhope it

The answer to the question is a.

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