The answer is probably twofold. First, on the plane of administration, the city organization provided a means of efficiently running large areas of their kingdoms, a task which their own centralized and cumbersome state apparatus could not cope with.
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- 可能具有双重原因:其一,从管理层面上讲,城市提供了管理庞大王国的有效办法,这是臃肿的中央集权统治机构无法做到的。