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  • 51 - Rome
    60 - Greece
    40 - Egypt
    25 - Persia
    44 - China
    mssv.net - After Our Time - Six to Start

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    • Originally posted by Wernazuma III


      Actually neither. Egypt was conquered first by the Hyksos (~1700BC), then overtaken by Libyan mercenaries(~1000BC) and Nubian kings (~750BC), later by the Assyrians (~670), and THEN came the Achaemenids...
      I wasn't particularly interested in which outside power was the first EVER to wrest control of Egypt from an Egyptian born ruler. This is the statement I was replying to:

      For over 2000 (that is two thousand!) years they were the center of the world until they were conquered by Alexander.
      Hueij

      Note the emphasis on Alexander. As in other things, he had an Iranian predecessor as a model to work from...

      More to the point, I think if I know that Cambyses defeated Psammetichus, I'm likely to know that the Assyrians and the Hyksos (and the Nubians) preceded the Achaemenids.
      Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

      ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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      • 51 - Rome
        60 - Greece
        38 - Egypt -
        27 - Persia +
        44 - China
        Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

        ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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        • 51 - Rome
          60 - Greece
          37 - Egypt -
          26 - Persia -
          46 - China ++
          Cake and grief counseling will be available at the conclusion of the test. Thank you for helping us help you help us all!

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          • 51 - Rome
            62 - Greece
            37 - Egypt
            26 - Persia-
            44 - China
            "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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            • 53 - Rome +2
              62 - Greece
              37 - Egypt
              24 - Persia -2
              44 - China
              The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.

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              • 51 - Rome --
                62 - Greece
                37 - Egypt
                26 - Persia ++ }:|
                44 - China
                Graffiti in a public toilet
                Do not require skill or wit
                Among the **** we all are poets
                Among the poets we are ****.

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                • 49 - Rome
                  62 - Greece
                  37 - Egypt
                  28 - Persia
                  44 - China
                  Rethink Refuse Reduce Reuse

                  Do It Ourselves

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                  • 49 - Rome
                    60 - Greece --
                    37 - Egypt
                    30 - Persia ++
                    44 - China

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                    • From the OP
                      10 - USA
                      10 - Inca
                      10 - Mayas
                      10 - Italy
                      10 - Germany
                      10 - England/Britian
                      10 - France
                      10 - Spain
                      10 - Rome
                      10 - Greece
                      10 - Byzantium
                      10 - Egypt
                      10 - Persia
                      10 - Hebrews
                      10 - Arabia
                      10 - Babylon
                      10 - China
                      10 - India
                      10 - Mongols
                      10 - Japan
                      10 - Khmer
                      10 - Ethiopia
                      10 – Mauritania
                      230

                      to post n° 834
                      49 - Rome
                      60 - Greece
                      37 - Egypt
                      30 - Persia
                      44 – China
                      220

                      elapsed time : 32 days

                      2.66 Apolytoners voting every of these 32 days would have been enough to reach the present result (ignoring the 10 points error).

                      As a consequence, the other 30 voters (or possibly more) have wasted around 900 votes only for cancelling each other votes.

                      I wonder if this curious game could be a version of the prisoner paradox; it is likely better not to vote for your preferred civ in order to avoid attracting negative votes, whereas your negative votes are always on the civ with the smallest figure.
                      Statistical anomaly.
                      The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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                      • 49 - Rome
                        60 - Greece
                        35 - Egypt --
                        30 - Persia
                        46 - China ++
                        "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.

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                        • 49 - Rome
                          60 - Greece
                          33 - Egypt - -
                          30 - Persia
                          48 - China ++

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                          • 49 - Rome
                            58 - Greece --
                            35 - Egypt
                            31 - Persia +
                            47 - China +
                            Graffiti in a public toilet
                            Do not require skill or wit
                            Among the **** we all are poets
                            Among the poets we are ****.

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                            • 51 - Rome ++
                              58 - Greece
                              35 - Egypt
                              29 - Persia --
                              47 - China
                              "

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                              • updated for thesilentone/onodera crosspost (china++, egypt--)

                                49 - Rome --
                                58 - Greece
                                33 - Egypt
                                29 - Persia
                                51 - China ++

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