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"At the same time that the structure of the empire was decentralizing, major population shifts and migrations occurred. New peoples would settle within the lands of the empire and while they were notionally subjects of the empire as well, in practice their loyalties were to their cultural group and these groups tended to be highly autonomous, owing some duties to the empire in a kind of transactional relationship based on mutual benefit or fear rather than any real loyalty or significant sense of loyalty."