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		wat10000 77 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A brief history of children sent through the mail ... If Rome, which lasted two thousand years, doesn’t meet your bar, then your bar is too high.

owlstuffing 77 days ago [–]

The Roman Empire lasted about two to three centuries in its unified form before it began to seriously fragment.

wat10000 77 days ago | [–]

You still had massive areas under unified control after that.

Two to three centuries is nothing to sneeze at, either. What are you comparing to?

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