Reatra wrote:The Holy Dominion of Inesea wrote:Still, after the arrival of the Old World folk and the like 75% population loss, I dont think you'd be expanding. If anything, you'd be contracting as cities are depopulated and abandoned and *cough* twenty years of warfare=/=stability or cause to grow.
Real empires don't say "maybe we should wait until our cities are repopulated to reconquer" they say "well we can win these battles, why not conquer?" Since Qosqo and it's immediate area would still have the largest population base.
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Empires like that, like the Mongols and Timurids didn't last long. Empire that expanded carefully like Rome and China did.





