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Greek Cities

After Alexander, Greek rulers face a manpower problem and govern by founding Greek cities, settling veterans, inviting Greeks, and recruiting Persian bureaucrats and Jews.

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After Alexander, Greek rulers face a manpower problem and govern by founding Greek cities, settling veterans, inviting Greeks, and recruiting Persian bureaucrats and Jews.

Timestamped Evidence

Rome's Cult Of No Surrender

2024-11-07, day precision · Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome

Transcript

"...And only then, but even then, only a few of the Greek city -states came together and some even joined the Persians. Okay? So..."

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The Borderland Becomes the Empire

2025-11-20, day precision · claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...

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