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To: Neocon who wrote (142170)	7/31/2004 5:35:51 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

I saw that, but thought it was a less than adequate response to the conceptual point being made, that empires do not contribute to humanity's well being. You made one good point about stability. I would also mention peace, predictability, integration of disparate cultures and economies (which we now term globalization), the spread of knowledge from one end of the empire to the others. You can subjugate other peoples by force, but you can't yolk them into an empire without their cooperation, and they won't cooperate unless it's in their interests to do so. BTW, the first Western treatise on algebra was written by Diophantes of Syracuse in the third century. In India, they claim that their earliest treatise predates 1000 BC.