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Part One: How The Roman Republic Became a Police State

Behind the Bastards

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The Romans Are Not Rich, Right?

Rome's military record here basically, they spend the length of the time that the united states has existed as a country, winning every fight they get in a ri which is like a pretty solid record. But all o these nobles, they have fucken. So, like, one of the things pyrus tries to bribe pon tu gis, and he can't bribe them because they're like, we'll know. This is like, my whole family's fighting. Like, this is what we do. We have this like, system, and we're kind of all in it together. Yet, we gat to burn off an army before we can get anything done.

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