And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Administrative Divisions in the Persian Empire 490 B.C.
An amazing concoction, given the state of transportation and communication at the time.
A few Macedonians and their Greek allies messed that all up for them.
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