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Jiang's governing model is that military organization shapes political organization: hoplites tend toward oligarchy, navies toward democracy, cavalry toward monarchy, and Rome's replenishable allied manpower toward republican law and tradition.
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Jiang's governing model is that military organization shapes political organization: hoplites tend toward oligarchy, navies toward democracy, cavalry toward monarchy, and Rome's replenishable allied manpower toward republican law and tradition.
"Okay, so good morning. Today we are doing the gunpowder revolution. Specifically, we are going to ask the question, how did Europe, starting about..."
"And hoplites were farmers who could afford their own armor, and weaponry, okay? Athens had a navy, and so it was a democracy. And..."
"So, the decisions are based on majority rule, okay? But in a republic, it is ruled by laws and tradition and history. So, people..."
Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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