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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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[–] PugJesus 12 points 2 weeks ago

Funny enough, the ascension of Augustus and the Empire replacing the Republic led to a temporary reversal of that concentration of wealth because of his reliance on professional soldiery, rather than the political support of the aristocracy, to maintain his position. Not that I expect anything so even incidentally fortuitous to happen in our current situation.

But yeah, you're right about all the rest.