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" ... Terrenato: Definitely. I will never know the individual machinations of each of these elite families. But I know they must have done something right because the families continue. With archaeology, I can see the overall pattern, which I think is very powerful. But both are necessary – ancient history without archaeology is idealism, but archaeology without history is too materialistic in focus. I’m trying to describe in the book a complex phenomenon, and it’s important to look more broadly. For example, around 400 BC there are a number of city-states in the ancient world and they all start growing: Macedonian, Roman, Carthaginian, Syracusan, Tarentine, and the list goes on. All these city-states that were happy to do their thing for the previous 500 years suddenly lurched into action and started clashing with one another. What this tells me – and surprisingly it hasn’t been said really ever before – is that there must be something that goes click, and not just in the heads of the Romans. There are a number of gears turning that make imperialist expansion possible, and everybody gets in on the action. Rome just happens to prevail, and so Roman imperialism is just one of many imperialisms. Rome crosses the finish line, and we should ask why. ... "