Quietly wondering when idiot trads will stop trying to larp Western and Eastern Romans our cultures have nothing in common with and realize our true cultural ancestry, in Carthage.
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Decadent, despotic oligarchs making foreign colonies mostly to establish trade power and auxiliaries, so militarily incompetent they wasted tremendous fortunes on mercenaries that eventually betrayed them, largely for no gain?
Nah, that can't be us...