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thaumasiotes
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Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence i...
> 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?
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GP appears to be using "empire" as in "imperalistic" instead of as in "emperor".
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That's almost 100% backwards. The Republic expanded. The Empire, not so much.