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Tell that to the Romans and the civilization their conquests brought
Flawed logic. This implies that none of the nations conquered by them would be able to achieve anything by themselves. How do you know that?
Imagine let's say if china had conquered Japan 100 years ago, we wouldn't have yuri hentai stuff right now. And we wouldn't even know what we are missing.
Same with Romans, we could've been colonizing other planets by now.