Unfortunately, You Need to Know What the Jevons Paradox is
Everyone is using this very old term nowadays.
History
Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part I: Finding Carthaginians
Carthaginians were badass. “The Carthaginians inflicted more casualties on the Romans in a single day than all of the successor states (a label which does not include Epirus, so no Pyrrhus here; worth noting the Carthaginians beat him too) managed… Read More »Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part I: Finding Carthaginians
Shame them, shun them, ban them, beat them!
It always comes down to culture and values. “You can’t turn a cheat into a scientist by making a rule against cheating. The most important “rigor-enhancing practice” is caring about getting things right, and without that, nothing else matters.” https://www.experimental-history.com/p/shame-them-shun-them-ban-them-beat
How Not To Design A Country
Don’t be USA.
Collections: Expeditions: Rome and the Perils of Verisimilitude
Rome had huge armies. “This is a common misconception in the public, that the ‘legion’ was essentially the Roman word for ‘army.’ It wasn’t (that word was exercitus); the legion was, by the Middle Republic, almost always a component of… Read More »Collections: Expeditions: Rome and the Perils of Verisimilitude
Ceiling Fans
Simple shit works.
Oligarchy
This is how Rome slowly faded.
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
State was not needed to bud shit as in the games usually is. “the only direct role the Roman state may take in all of this is that those local elites might ask for a Roman military engineer to help… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIb: Built in a Day
Russia, China and Geography
Sarah Paine explaining shit.
Collections: Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
Archeology is like arithmetic to historians. “It is thus relevant that over the past half-century or so, it has so happened that effectively all ancient historians have had to develop a strong grasp of archaeological data; we don’t all necessarily… Read More »Collections: Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things