Professor
Interesting retrospective on McNeill.
Based on this, I am guessing that human and archaic human empires should all be considered parasites on nearby host populations.
I recently reprised posts re the Mongols as a Pax Mongolica, based on some economists' jaundiced views.
But it seems that not only should they not be seen as merely pacific commercialists, but as bringers of plague to their countless victims across Eurasia.
I am guessing that the same kind of analysis extends for example to Alexander, and to Rome.
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