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To: TobagoJack who wrote (79141)9/7/2011 2:24:39 AM
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Wait a moment! How can an entity be considered self-sustaining when it will need "tributary states providing nourishment, raw material, etc etc" ?

I climbed the Apadana stairs in Persepolis, I stopped to look at the beautiful work. It depicts tributary states See photo below depicting tribute bearers bringing in the gifts to Xerxes and Darius.

Some tributary were Helenic. The Persians had burned the Parthenon, after that Greeks became tributaries to the Persians. 150 years later Alexander the Great came to Persepolis and paid back. Burned Persepolis to ruins.

In Curitiba there is a poem written in a ruin in the old part of the city.

As I looked down Persepolis, from Artaxerxes II tomb, (photo at the bottom) I recite it to Experiment aloud:
"Men dreams monuments. But only ruins they sow, as resting places for the winds"

Persepolis
Tribute bearers, Tachara, western staircase.


'Hall of a Hundred Columns'.
This hall was used for the reception of the Subject Nations and collection of their tribute.


The resting place for the winds the poem wrote about
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