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by mcv 3548 days ago
The Romans were great at politics, engineering and warfare. The Greeks were great at all the stuff that doesn't help you keep an empire together.
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Ericson2314 3548 days ago
Also arguably the Punic wars or something is their societal peak, and late republic their cultural. In the empire period the locus shifted east pretty quick.

Which is to say the Romans assimilated into their conquered cultural betters.

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