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Part One: How The Roman Republic Became a Police State

Behind the Bastards

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The Romans Have a Mixed Kind of Reputation

Roxanne Jones: The thing that distinguish as romans as a military power is theyre able to like, lose all of their guys and then win the war anyway. A good example of this would be the pyric war from two 80 to two 75 b c. She says Rome's political structure really works because everybody's got skin in the game.Jones: But one of the downsides is that all their armies are led by,. like, nancy polose, which goes really badly sometimesright?

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