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HOTD vs History: Murdering Family for Power

History of Westeros (Game of Thrones)

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The Value of Competition at All Costs

Cultures that encourage competition at all costs, he says. "When it's extreme competition, where it's competition tilted to the 10th power, and then instead down place tremendously the value of cooperation," Geremartin writes. In a Persian Civil War in 400s BC, one queen mother put poison on her daughter-in-law so they could eat together but not each other.

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