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Let's say that the roman empire at it's infancy decides to unite all it's land after Augustas conquest. By granting citzenship to all the people in it's province, setting a comman lanuage used by every area in the empire.

By creating a rome that really includes people from every area, and people from all corners being able to call themselves roman, including the areas of Britian, spain, Cartage, Greece and etc, can the roman civilization last longer like the chinese?

The chinese civiliztion was believed that the reason it can last so long is because everyone in china considered themselves to be chinese first, their province second.

This way, no matter who conquered the roman lands, the next leader can be called the roman emperor no matter what. Because if most of western europe is basically rome...even if a barbarian invasion from other areas attacked Italy, the roman civilization can survive, and people will dream of reuniting the roman empire instead of trying to establish independence.
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