Peter Heather
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It's an absolute pleasure.
We've set ourselves a great task.
I think it's got a lot to do with Gibbon.
It's got a lot to do with the American founding fathers understanding themselves as Rome.
And it's got a lot to do with surviving material.
So there's a lot of information that you can play with.
Oh, it's well over 100.
Yeah, about 150.
Well, no, actually probably more like 200 is the absolute physical maximum.
Because they had a bit more in Mesopotamia.
How much of Holland shall I put on?
Western Holland.
Austrian Bavaria.
Well, the power stretches as far as the decent agricultural land does, so up into the Atlas Mountains.
I mean, it's a very ill-defined frontier because it's basically about protecting agricultural production.
And there's no formed enemy there.
The empire is stretching up the western coast of the Black Sea, but not as far as Crimea.
There are independent cities there which have very close relationships with the empire, and there are lots of ambassadors there.