• nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 days ago

      Im no historian but I think we’ve made some headway in technology that allows for quicker longer distance organization in the past 2000 years.

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        8 days ago

        That gives even greater advantage to centralized bureaucracy. 2000 years ago armies could be independent weeks before anyone back in Rome knew what happened.