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Money can buy militias and opposition groups, but Jiang argues these actors become hustlers who seek U.S. money rather than victory.
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Bribery
Imperial money corrupted republican competition: office could be bought through bribery, then repaid through provincial exploitation, wars, enslavement, and triumphs.
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Imperial money corrupted republican competition: office could be bought through bribery, then repaid through provincial exploitation, wars, enslavement, and triumphs.
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Jiang says one possible explanation for weak Athenian resistance to Philip's conquests is that Philip bribed Athenian aristocrats.
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Philip's conquest of Amphipolis mattered because gold mines gave him money to pay full-time soldiers, buy noble loyalty, fund roads and projects, and bribe foreign elites.
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"It's another phrase that we use. All right. Money and wealth. You would think, okay, well, this is it, man. We just bribe everyone...."
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"...do is just bribe people, okay? And then so, very soon, bribery just became a fact of politics in Rome. Once you won political..."
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"Okay? But because you got into so much debt to win the political office, when you went to a province, you did two things...."
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"And learn the best scientific and military innovations in order to bring back to Mastodon. And this happens all the time, right? In the..."
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"That's important. Okay? Because he wants to move into the south eventually. But he needs to make sure that he's not attacked from behind...."
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"...make your stay in purgatory shorter, okay? This is just basically bribery, alright, spiritual bribery. And obviously, a lot of Christians would have issues..."
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"...their empire was not through the military but through diplomacy through bribery through intermarriages. Okay? So the Vikings in Kiev the Byzantines made an..."
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"...the triumph. And you do that by starting wars. So, through bribery and through charisma, Caesar is elected a praetor. And then as a..."
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