Societal decay and collapse. In the case of the Roman Dominate period, it was an inability to sustain the economic surplus to field the professional soldier legions of Augustus. At least in the West. The Eastern half of the empire was richer
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But what to make of it - when the Chinese empires reached this military structure, did it breakup shortly after, as in Rome?
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