Jiang frames early Rome as a small, poor Latin kingdom whose later imperial success could not have been predicted from its starting position among Etruscans, Greeks, and Carthaginians.
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Jiang frames early Rome as a small, poor Latin kingdom whose later imperial success could not have been predicted from its starting position among Etruscans, Greeks, and Carthaginians.
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"Okay, so we start Rome today, and we will spend the next four classes on the rise of the Roman Republic and then the..."
"And slowly, they'll build up their own little empire across the Mediterranean. And they are, for the longest time, the wealthiest city in Europe,..."
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