His example of "successful powers" remaining stable despite the dilution of their demographic core? Romehttps://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/933536043457970176 …
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Replying to @addydapting
which non-roman ethnicities do you think the romans ought to have "integrated"?
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Replying to @addydapting
Of course they did. But the ethnically-Roman population of Gaul, Hispania, Illyria, etc. was always a tiny fraction of the total. (And the bulk of the population was in East)
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And moreover they were constantly importing cheap labor - i.e. slaves - into Rome itself, so the population of the imperial capital was least-Roman of all
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There was no problem with "integration" - the immigrants were always part of the "familia" of a powerful Roman, and remained under his protection even after they were freed (the patron-client thing)
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