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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (162621)	5/19/2005 7:18:32 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) of 281500

So if the citizens didn't serve (and in fact they did not do much of anything), then how did Romans convince the rest of Europe to serve them? Would it be through the application of military force? Are you saying a culture of militarism is not so if the military is outsourced? In the early days of Rome, it was a republic that its people believed in it. Just as importantly, when Romans captured a city the first thing they would do was to build a bath. Every city got to have a main intersection, two barracks and a bath. The bath was important because it was where the upper class was to gather and learn the Roman ways. So long as Rome succeeded on this path, the empire expanded. The problem was this model was a Ponzi game on the social scale; It took a lot of slaves and servants to support the expanding upper class in the provinces. So more conquests were necessary (not unlike the need for new markets). At some point in time Rome could not expand anymore and could not support its elite around the empire. This in combination with the laziness and lack of belief in the republic was the beginning of the end. more later if you wish...

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