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Quote Bluestreak.
"Or, maybe.....just maybe.....They all tried to maintain a vast military empire, maintaining standing armies in far flung lands forcing other people to give up natural resources on the cheap?"
The Romans yes and 1000 years later the British, but one reason they fell was reaction time. Something goes wrong in a colony, it takes months to alert the capital and get instructions so the colony leader had to make his own decision as to how to deal with it.
"Things fall apart, the center does not hold" I guess some colonial leaders could think on the fly and some couldn't.
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05-23-2010, 04:47 AM
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