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22. Byzantium and the Rise of the Turks

Empire

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I'd Like to Send You a Brand to Bring You Back From the Dead

Peter Travers: I think it's interesting that the body shaming a thousand years ago, that's how you show that someone is a bad person. He says running an empire is not actually that easy and keeping your court in place requires some quite good soft skills as well as some prettypretty good hard skills. "It's also quite interesting from sort of macro point of view," he adds. 'How to empires rise, how do they stay stable? How do you manage to keep an economy basically inflation free'

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