The Roman Republic
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The Triumph of Rome
The greatest accalade in roman society is what is called a triumph. It's when you've won a war and you parade through the city with your plunder, with your soldiers. So sinsonatus had a triumph after his great victory as a dictator. But the early triumphs there just take about an hour. As Rome begins conquering, further and further triumphs take days. And because it is an escalating competition, so each next gene is told whele this is what your father did. This is what your grandfather did. Your job is to win more glory, to enhance the dignitas. The day of the triumph of scipio, the man they're now calling af
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