Rome can lose battles and still get stronger because open citizenship and simpler legionary service let it replenish soldiers.
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Rome can lose battles and still get stronger because open citizenship and simpler legionary service let it replenish soldiers.
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"Now, what's interesting about this is, it's a different concept from the Greek one, but the Greeks. And the Greeks believed that what liberty..."
"war, but as it does so, it gets stronger and stronger, because it's learning with each defeat, okay? And that is the secret to..."
"there are some major differences between these two fighting techniques, even though for their time, they are the most advanced. As you can see,..."
"The reason why is the legionnaires were developed to fight in a mountainous region. So they need to be able to climb, to hike..."
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