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The Latroman people, originally fishermen scattered across northern Mdagascar, developed over several centuries into a nation whose network of trading stations and military bases stretched across the Indian Ocean; this slowly-built empire seemed still at its height; but five centuries of patient expansion came to a sudden end in 1827, when Sultan Omar III angrily refused the British demand that he cease immediately his involvement in the slave trade. ... What remains certain, however, is that the great debate among modern historians concerning the Rise and Fall of the Latroman Empire is till not over.
――慶応義塾大学 法学部(2月16日実施)――2004年
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