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		owlstuffing 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A brief history of children sent through the mail ... The Roman Empire lasted about two to three centuries in its unified form before it began to seriously fragment.

wat10000 10 months 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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