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Jiang’s label for Athenian empire as tribute extraction and coercion over allies.
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mafia state
Jiang’s label for Athenian empire as tribute extraction and coercion over allies.
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"...and its former colonies and allies okay because Athens is a mafia state now what's important for us to understand is that because of..."
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"global trade to America basically being a mafia state, being pirates, and allowing you to use sea lanes and giving you trade access. Okay,..."
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"...this war okay Sicily so remember um the Athenians it's a mafia state what they do is they collect tribute from the allies but..."
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"...war when athens the athenian empire which had become basically a mafia state basically decided to go to war against the entire world and..."
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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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