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Part Two: How The Roman Republic Became a Police State

Behind the Bastards

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The Roman Police State

Coon listeners, yes, what's up pricks? That's right. I deserve it. So we're talking about like, the roman police state here, which i don't think most people realize. Everyone knows like yet, rome, that it became an empire, but like it is a modern police state. And i want to bet how pervasive it truly was. Rome at the height of the empire, is a million people. They have a police force of seven thousand vigils, three thousand urban cohorts, 12 hundred cavalry attached to the urban cohorts, and roughly six thousand praetorian guards in the city. The first member of the pretorian guard to attempt to take

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