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0 pointsthaumasiotes6mo ago0 comments

> For the Romans, winning wars was the main source of elite prestige. So the Empire had to expand to accommodate winning more wars.

That's almost 100% backwards. The Republic expanded. The Empire, not so much.

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Isn't that burying the lede on a technicality?

GP appears to be using "empire" as in "imperalistic" instead of as in "emperor".

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