ABSTRACT
In conquest situations, there are-broadly speaking-two positions that can be taken by the dominant power. It can adopt a relaxed but paternalistic stance, allowing the conquered to carry on much the same as before but with added exactions in terms of money, goods and manpower-roughly the policy adopted by the Persian Empire in the fifth and fourth centuries BC (the Classical Period); or it can try to impose new constitutions on unwilling states-with varying degrees of success-which was the position of the Macedonian Empire which took over from Persia in the fourth century BC.
