Verify Citation - 12. The Cosmology of War
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“The dimensions of the allotments gradually diminished, since they were divided among the heirs.” Each “was obliged to serve the king from his share.” This “led to the ruin of the military colonists. Hence, in the fifth and fourth centuries BC the Achaemenids had to rely in their military policy primarily on mercenaries, and not on the owners of the allotments, who did not always even have military equipment.”
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