What is a city-state? A: a state with many cities
B: a state that is the same size as a city
C: a city with a state
D: political unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands

What does the quote describe? “the closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us….the shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”