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Empires Without Imperialism with Jeanne Morefield

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The History of Athens

There is a long history of imperialists reading either ancient rome or ancient greece to their advantage, right? And athens is fascinating. I don't know what they wanted m for beyges. They clearly want a military ray, and they want lots of people with guns, but, um, but it's unclear what they want in that because they actually do sort of, i think, like the idea of a kick ass, stronger than any other power in the world,. In this instance, it was a really expensive and came in a huge loss of life.

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