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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-21-07 04:41 AM
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9. Rome's Legacy
Turn everything into a machine. Efficiency is key. Production is god. It doesn't matter if your culture is notable, so long as you can expand it with a killing force. The only worth a land or a people has is that which can fill your own pockets through their exploitation.

France, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Great Britain, The United States, Nazi Germany... all have tried to be Rome. All have tried to emulate the "success" of the Roman Empire, through slavery, exploitation, and massacre.

Everyone would be a lot better off if the Mongols or Moors had taken Western Europe. even the Western Europeans would have been.
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