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1. The road to empire

Sun Oct 17, 2021, 08:37 AM

Oct 2021

Is paved with republics that failed because of over ambitious, unsustainable military expansion.

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Empires always fall in the end... [View all] Soph0571 Oct 2021 OP

The road to empire The Wizard Oct 2021 #1

The huge slave population was also a destabilizing force Farmer-Rick Oct 2021 #2

It's probably Delphinus Oct 2021 #3

Modern Society is still evolving...it is less then 5000 years old. Tommymac Oct 2021 #4

Agree Soph0571...if an empire is going to fall HipChick Oct 2021 #5

Ozymandias keithbvadu2 Oct 2021 #7

Shelley was pure genius malaise Oct 2021 #9

I love coming here CrackityJones75 Oct 2021 #8

Heh SammyWinstonJack Oct 2021 #11

You can certainly count on that. nt BlackSkimmer Oct 2021 #13

Doom and gloom 24/7 Raine Oct 2021 #17

I don't believe we're doomed at all. Elessar Zappa Oct 2021 #10

... roamer65 Oct 2021 #12

People warned about the demise of the Russian Empire. Xolodno Oct 2021 #16