{"id":31472,"date":"2021-01-14T20:11:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T09:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=31472"},"modified":"2021-01-14T20:11:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T09:11:49","slug":"the-most-prosperous-ancient-nation-youve-never-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=31472","title":{"rendered":"The Most Prosperous Ancient Nation You\u2019ve Never Heard Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Khazaria-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"Khazaria\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Khazaria-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Khazaria.jpg 663w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This country lasted over 300 years and covered more territory than all of Scandinavia. It\u2019s my thesis that for a country to be \u201csuccessful\u201d for a considerable period\u2014success being defined loosely here as economically prosperous, politically stable, and militarily defensible\u2014it must possess substantial TTD. That\u2019s not a pronounceable acronym, unfortunately, but it stands for trade, tolerance and decentralization.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/the-most-prosperous-ancient-nation-you-ve-never-heard-of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This country lasted over 300 years and covered more territory than all of Scandinavia. It\u2019s my thesis that for a country to be \u201csuccessful\u201d for a considerable period\u2014success being defined loosely here as economically prosperous, politically stable, and militarily defensible\u2014it must possess substantial TTD. That\u2019s not a pronounceable acronym, unfortunately, but it stands for trade, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=31472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Most Prosperous Ancient Nation You\u2019ve Never Heard Of&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31474,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31472\/revisions\/31474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}