This is all about Greece when it was in its Hellenistic period.
Bring an end to freedom
Let them live but promise to be loyal
Destroy all of the city states
Spread the Greek language and that is ALL
Strategy, oligarchy, language
Military, politics, culture
Alexandria and Cairo
Byzantium and Constantinople
Knossos and Thera
Alexandria and Pergamum
Stiff
Flowy
Still
Flat
Stoicism
Epicureanism
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