<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishWafalme, wasimamizi, na makasisi waliishi katika miji badala ya majumba ya kipekee, wakichukua eneo la ndani katika jumuiya, ambazo zilikuwa za kwanza kuwa majimbo-miji.  <response>: Dukes, administrators, and clergy lived in towns rather than isolated castles, absorbing the hinterland into communes, forerunners of the city-states. 