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How Alexander the Great's Soldiers Spent Their Money
Season 5 Episode 160
Let's imagine a Macedonian soldier during the time of Alexander the Great. How did this man, whom we'll call Red Cleitus, spend the vast amounts of coin he plundered and earned as he and his comrades fought their way across Asia?
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