
What Happens with the National Debt
The Political Orphanage
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Darius and the Babylonian Revolt
Darius hadn't even entered Babylon yet, and already there was trouble on the far side of the empire. He'd only just started planning to invade India to do something for himself for once. But one thing Darius had counted on to be the fun part of kingship turned out to be a series of never-ending brushfires. Brushfires which you extinguished by suffocating under piles of money.
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