Democracy is not a necessary component of being a republic. Two different political traditions there.
But that was hardly more than a wisecrack from me. I was merely pointing out that the Roman Republic did a fair bit of real estate acquisition, not to mention outright genocide. The Empire was as big as it was largely thanks to the Republic.
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