How did the men of fallen empires and nations suppress their

I guess they didn't have time to think about this stuff just lived.

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>>2758634
Speaking as a Britbong... eh, it's not hard. We have a solid standard of living, place highly on most tables, that sort of thing. Sure there's a whole history of being super best at everything that we've since lost, but sometimes it's fine to just be pretty good and leave the responsiblities of ruling the world to someone else.

>>2758634
Depends
If they're empires that faded out of existence and into history books like the Byzantines, people who mattered would spend their days in exile seeking revenge when the moment of weakness happened. If they're people whose home country still exists like Great Britain, they'd be less interested in reclaiming lost glories as they already have their laurels taken from the peoples they conquered.

People who didn't matter don't give a fuck, they're too busy eking out a living and paying taxes to whoever happened to be governing them.

>>2758652
Doesn't really apply to us, pham. We were born long after the empire lost most of its clay. Should ask the older generations who actually saw it fall apart in slow-motion.

Not that it matters much or that is was evitable, colonialism in a global capitalist economy doesn't make much sense. Too much input costs. Most of the butthurt over shit like suez or persian-anglo oil was mostly over loss of control over the colonial infrastructure, not the owning of clay for the sake of clay itself.