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>>19011995


NO; EVERYTHING THAT THE HELLENES DID THE ROMANS OPTIMIZED.

>>18759974


THOSE ARE SUPERFLUOUS PARALLELISMS; ANY TWO THINGS CAN BE COMPARED VIA ACCIDENTAL TRAITS, OR CONDITIONS, BUT THAT DOES NOT NECESSARILY INDICATE HOMOLOGOUS, NOR ANALOGOUS, RELATION, MUCH LESS A SIMILARITY.

THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF POLITICAL EXPANSION: IMPERIAL OR GENERATIVE, AND COLONIAL OR PREDATORY.

IMPERIAL OR GENERATIVE POLITIES CIVILIZE, REPLICATING THEIR POLITICAL ORTHOGRAM ON THE CONQUERED TERRITORY, AND ASSIMILATING & INTEGRATING OTHER PEOPLES INTO THEIR STATE.

COLONIAL OR PREDATORY POLITIES BARBARIZE, EXTERMINATING, MASSACRING, AND/OR ENSLAVING, THE NATIVE POPULATION, AND ESTABLISHING MERCANTILE FACTORIES FROM WHICH THEY EXPLOIT THE NATURAL, AND HUMAN, RESOURCES OF THE OCCUPIED TERRITORY.

EXAMPLES OF IMPERIAL OR GENERATIVE POLITIES: THE MACEDONIC EMPIRE, ROMA, THE UNIVERSAL CHRISTIAN EMPIRE OF THE HISPANICAL MONARCHY, ET CETERA.

EXAMPLES OF COLONIAL OR PREDATORY POLITIES: THE ACHÆMENID SOCALLED «EMPIRE», CARTHAGO, CULÚA (THE TENOCHCA FEDERATION), THE KINGDOM OF PORTUGAL, THE INCAIC SOCALLED «EMPIRE», THE BRITISHER SOCALLED «EMPIRE», UNITEDSTATES, ISRAEL, ET CETERA.

UNITEDSTATES' HISTORICAL POLITICAL ARCHETYPE IS CARTHAGO, NOT ROMA.