What's up with the constant rebellions in Mesopotamia and Egypt? Why is it so hard to keep these peo...

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What's up with the constant rebellions in Mesopotamia and Egypt? Why is it so hard to keep these people down?

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Iphikrates is in Egypt

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A question for all my friends who are generals and kings. I know the Great King has so much trouble holding on to Babylon and Egypt that he even once called to glorious Athens for aid. They sent me to help him out, and I had to march around the sandy wastes for years before they finally let me go home. And he's not the first one to struggle with this, and not the last one either, as I learn. Why is it so difficult to pacify these regions? Is it just a matter of enforcing harsher discipline, like it usually is?

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