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The Persian envoy passage embodies empire’s advantage of mass, organization, and death: inexhaustible resources against a small city.
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Mass Organization Death
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"Why are you so mad as to love your war against the king? For neither can you get the better off him nor can..."
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"Okay. So this is the idea of empire right? Just mass organization and death. We are infinite in our resources. We are infinite in..."
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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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