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A formally collective body whose practical power is concentrated among prestigious front-rank speakers.
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Roman Senate
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...eliminating all these reformers uh and you know roman you know roman senate they had their death squads and all these reformers would usually"
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The Holy Roman Empire was not truly Roman because the Catholic Church imitated Roman bureaucracy and Senate-like legitimacy, but Jiang says Roman culture had already died, beginning with universal citizenship in 212.
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"...the Roman. Okay? Remember that in the Roman Empire it's the Senate that confers legitimacy onto the Emperor. And in this world it's the..."
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"...About this? Sure. Oh, that's a great question. Okay? So the Senate is about, it's about 300, 400 people. It's a lot of people...."
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"...So when Caesar invades Rome, basically he declared war on the Roman Senate. Okay? So let's look at a map of Rome at this..."
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"...eliminating all these reformers uh and you know roman you know roman senate they had their death squads and all these reformers would usually"
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"...yourself as an entrepreneurial military genius. Okay. So, after Gaul, the Roman Senate basically gets really annoyed at Caesar because they don't understand what..."
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"...then this ends in 27 BCE when Octavian returns to the Senate, the Roman Senate, in triumph, and they declare him Augustus Caesar. Okay,..."
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"...huge conspiracy that involved 67. That's about 7 % of the Roman Senate. That's a lot of people, man, right, 7 % of the..."
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"...strange happens. And this is unique in human history. Okay? The Roman Senate, they come together and they discuss a situation. It's bleak. It's..."
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"...Rome. Okay? And that's why even though a third of the Roman Senate was wiped out by Hannibal they didn't give up because the..."
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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