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Zulu leaders simply reorganized their society around warfare

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Why have an agricultural society that occasionally fights, when you can build a purely military machine that occasionally farms? By aggressively organizing all unmarried men into heavily regimented age-based combat units, the kingdom instantly transformed from a minor regional presence into a terrifying, highly disciplined imperial superpower.

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