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The self-feeding system of conquest, slaves, debt, land seizure, and further war.
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Roman war machine
The self-feeding system of conquest, slaves, debt, land seizure, and further war.
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Jiang's description of Rome as an expansionist society organized around war and territorial growth.
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"...believe anything you read. Okay? So, let's look at the Roman war machine. Because after the war against Carthage, after Rome destroys Carthage, Rome..."
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"...has no choice in the matter. This is the entire Roman war machine. Okay? So, because Rome is a poor place, the only way..."
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"And that's what most historians and most scholars believe. But I want to be more precise. Okay? I want to show you that ultimately..."
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"...no land. And so, what's happening is that what the Roman war machine is doing is creating slavery, debt, corruption, and inequality. Okay? And..."
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"...end of the Roman Empire. Okay? In other words, the Roman war machine doesn't know how to stop. Even when it becomes an empire,..."
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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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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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