• TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Ah, but they couldn't, mostly because they had been doing excessive spending at home in order to maintain their political facades ( a.k.a. domination of the local political scene) and that with a good dose of racism (culturalism?) prevented them from scaling down at the core to maintain actual material domination.

        You see, the biggest problem is they didn't have modern industry and thus realized that money is fake.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        "Make sure you always pay your soldiers" seems to be one of the most timeless pieces of advice for rulers.