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In Our Time: History

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Is the Empire in Miniature?

We get a sense of the kind of wealth at pours into a iran from er. The peoples of the empire are tasked with bringing together different goods from across the empire. We have texts written in elamite ind cune form, which talk about individuals travelling from memphis in northern egypt right to kandaha in afghanistan. And there are road stations which would litated those kind of journeys. Lissuncultural must have daing quite a lot of organizing. Wasn't a huge amount of organize, but this is something that the the aranians have always been very good on.

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