alt Hacker NewsA contrived and ahistorical definition of empire invented to support a particular modern worldview about supposedly oppressed peoples
A contrived and ahistorical definition of empire invented to support a particular modern worldview about supposedly oppressed peoples
The article hardly mentions "oppressed peoples" at all. Much of the focus is on the benefits gained to the empire by the diversity therein, with brief forays into the historical and geographical layout of different parts of the early/mid Roman empire.