Throughout History civilizations have risen and fallen based on the incessant need of leaders to conquer and gain land, authority, and riches. One great example of such an over extension can be found in the Roman Empire. Eventually their armies advanced so far that they could no longer defend their homeland because they ruled too much land. For every fact such as this, there is also at least one fictional interpretation of like events and …showed first 75 words of 901 total…

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