And replacing them with less disciplined barbarians that were paid the same despite being less disciplined which led to the downfall of quality.

Or the death of Julius Ceaser that led to the leaders squabbling over who should be his successor.

Once the Babure and Mughals lost control they didn't have much cultural influce that stayed because they didn't leave a large genetic legacy.

To be honest, I feel like I am having a very good discussion here.

But you know what?

How would be go about testing this?

Assuming we have infinite resources at our disposal

Sure.

This would be more fun to theorize

So heres the thing, youd need some genetic stock from a sizable population.

Divided by race?

Ok.

So you get like say

What is defined by genetics really?

Like 100 asian samples, 100 african ones, 100 caucasian ones.

X race I mean

Like divided youd get mongolian, scottish, british, german ect

How specific could it go though?

I would say the ethnic/nationality leve.

Ignore health issues as well id assume

Or like, in perfect health. Nothing with any blemishes both mental and physical

ok

Clones put into multiple sealed environments

And have a controll group which as all races mixed in for all environmental types.

We talking seasonal, thundra, winter.

What type of environment do we want to stick with?

To be honest, if you only had one I would have no clue

Hence why I put in multiple types for posterity.

I mean, youd also have to account for environment

Being a possible cause. So having multiple environments will help disprove/prove that part.

Ok so how about have one be the average enivronment found in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Actually now Im curious, what would that be.

Seasonal?

So account for seasonal changes as well, that would be the strongest indicator of environmental factors.

Something slow like 4 seasons or iceage thawing

Uhh a savanna wouldnt support a large pop

Well there isn't much of a seasonal change in subastahan Africa. I would say the environments could be. 1: Southern Nigeria 2: central italy. 3: central Korean pocenia. I thin those would be good situlation environments.

Hmm sounds good to me

ANd then connect them to other environments i guess

To observe migration behaviour as well

Ok what kind of environments are you thinking of?