Seriously why everyone want to be rome so bad? Like its okay to just be the leader of your own big murderous empire without having to rip off Caesar again

    • CrimsonSage [any]
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      4 years ago

      He also worked to systematically undermine the local elites in the frontiers which left them much more fragile to social co-option. He then took the power that the local elites had wielded and centralized it in himself, but made no institutional provision to insure that this system of social control could be propagated beyond this death.