<span>In order to know if a country is in its golden age, you need to know about its future, specifically whether or not it will perform worse than it currently does. Cuz nobody can tell for sure about the future</span>
<span>The acquired Taiwan in 1895, Korea as a protectorate in 1905, and the Kwantung Leased Territories in 1905.</span>
While both Greek and Romans were pretty ethnocentric by modern standards, the Romans assimilated far more people into their institutional lives.
Many non-Greeks adopted Gteek lifestyles, language and habits after the age of Alexander, but the cross-pollination was more frequently cultural than political. Cleopatra might have dressed like an Egyptian queen and patronized the Egyptian gods, but she wouldn't have had Egyptian generals or Egyptian judges. The Greeks tended to settle into the cultures they occupied like the British in India: remaining separate from and believing themselves superior to the people around them, even while encouraging the 'natives' to adopt their culture habits.
Romans did a much more thorough job assimilating the peoples they conquered. Non-Romans could and did become citizens, even from very early times. This started with neighboring groups like the Latins, but eventually extend to the rest of Italy and later to the whole empire. Eventually there would be "Roman" emperors of Syrian, British, Spanish, Gallic, Balkan, and North African descent Farther down the social scale the mixing was much more complete (enough to irritate many Roman traditionalists). This wasn’t just a practical accommodation, either — when emperor Claudius allowed Gauls into the Roman Senate he pointed out that by his time the Romans had been assimilating former enemies since the days of Aeneas.
Alexander Was A Very Smart Leader And A Smart Tacticion And General, He Was Able To Reconize The Appeal And Usefulness Of Elephants As War Animals And How They Could Wreak Havoc Among Enemies. He Would Use Them To Destroy And Shatter Enemy Lines, Causing Panic And Disarray Among His Enemies.
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