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158 - How to Defeat Persia if They Invade You

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The Law of Success

The story of thomistocles is a fascinating one. He lived in exile and he took a year to learn the persian language for some reason so i mean he got thrown out wow man yeah that's fascinating. People were on both sides for periods of time there were weasels in sparta and sparta was a bad place to live  and also there was kind of the beginnings of democracy there. It's just a really multifaceted era that isn't simple but I like that it's weird and complexYeah no i will not i went to the wikipedia page on thomistOCles and i scrolled down this is a bridge too far for what we

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