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To: SunkenCiv

Justinian, the greatest of the late Roman (early Byzantine) Emperors. He came within a flea of restoring the West to the Empire.


4 posted on 02/06/2009 2:33:40 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Ran out of money doing it though. Probably would have been better off building commercial ties throughout the Med basin, and not worry too much about who ruled what.


5 posted on 02/06/2009 6:27:31 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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