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Jiang says Persia could still have won through attrition after Salamis, but Mardonius repeated the mistake by fighting an unnecessary equal-force battle at Plataea.
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Mardonius
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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"How do you feel what, half, half a million people? Well you need to bring in supplies from Persia. But now your navy has..."
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"But, Mardonis chose to fight the Greeks at the battle of Palatia. And here, it was about equal forces. 100,000 Greeks versus 100,000 Persians...."
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"...to go home now. And I'm going to let my general Mardonius take care of the Greeks."
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"Okay? So Mardonius is like you know I don't really want to fight these guys anymore. So Mardonius sends an envoy to the Athenians..."
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"...barbarian for we will not be persuaded. Go then and tell Mardonius that the Athenians say so long as the sun shall continue in..."
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"...now that Xerxes is gone now that the navy is scattered Mardonius is kinda screwed okay? And so what will happen is the Spartans..."
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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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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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