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marmar

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2. "Military spending left few resources for other vital activities, such as providing public housing..

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 09:21 AM

Jun 2012

...... and maintaining quality roads and aqueducts. Frustrated Romans lost their desire to defend the Empire. The empire had to begin hiring soldiers recruited from the unemployed city mobs or worse from foreign counties. Such an army was not only unreliable, but very expensive."

We'll never learn, apparently.

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