Mind-blowing: The Inca governed an empire spanning 2500 miles and encompassing 10 million subjects, a feat they managed *without the wheel* and *without a formal writing system*
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In the modern world the places that least want to be controlled by the central powers are almost always cost centers, not revenue generators as they were likely to be in the past.
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The Roman Empire's expansion helped fund the core. Over a millennia later, the extraction of wealth from Asia/New World by the colonizing European powers... Today - name a profitable occupation. Middle East? Crimea? And most rural areas are net receivers of payments.
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My above model doesn’t seem to apply well to modern day Europe. Catalonia is a captive autonomous zone that is a net tax payer to Spain. UK seems to be a net payer to the EU.
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