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Re: Neo-Punic Wars, was Re: [FAQ] FH what? ...

From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:06:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Neo-Punic Wars, was Re: [FAQ] FH what? ...


--- Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> wrote:

> You don't need very many people at all to establish
> a wide-spanning and 
> effective commercial network... and once you're
> rich, you hire mercenaries 
> from all over the place to keep your neighbours in
> their place just like 
> the original Carthaginians did :-) Of course it

Also the Dutch, and IIRC the Portugese empires were
along those lines.

John

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