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Macedon's conquest of Persia and Rome's rise repeat the same pattern: poor marginal peoples can defeat wealthy, cultured, apparently invincible centers.
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Macedon's conquest of Persia and Rome's rise repeat the same pattern: poor marginal peoples can defeat wealthy, cultured, apparently invincible centers.
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"all cultured they were uncivilized okay but again they had energy openness and cohesion and that allowed them to conquer the city states what's..."
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"who are the romans well at this time in history we don't know who they are okay um uh rome is probably here somewhere..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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