Three Moves Ahead 554: Empires and Imperialism with Bret Devereaux
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The Origins of Empires
An empire can become corps wide. The initial imperial formation is exactly the process i've described, where you gobble up your neighbors to extract resources from them. But then, if you control that space long enough, the people who live there can often come to identify with your state. This is how a actually, this is how, functionally all nation states emerge. And so some degree, eventually the roman empire also becomes a sort of cor wide state.
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