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if i remember correctly, they attacked settlements in retaliation.
In a direct democracy all the people who have the right to vote vote on a government policy: this would typically be all citizens above certain age. (In the past it could be only men...)
This is the case in the referendums in Switzerland, they vote directly!
Answer:
because it became less economically viable to push the borders further, and because of the Persians in the east.
