In Ancient Greece, the sea was viewed as the end of the mortal world, belonging only to the Gods and controlled by the God Poseiden.
You are a senior Army Officer stationed in a Greek port city during the reign of Alexander the Great. You and your forces have free access to the city's ships, and are curious about the sea and what lies beyond it. You recieve word of a distant land beyond the horizon, populated by other mortals.

After World War II, West Germany and Austria established formal 'guest worker' (Gastarbeiter) programs to address severe labor shortages. Between 1955-1973, millions of workers, primarily from Turkey and Yugoslavia, were recruited for low-skilled industrial and service jobs. While intended as temporary labor, many workers permanently settled despite lacking integration support or clear paths to citizenship.

'L' is a pill that allows individuals to ignite or reignite feelings of love for a target individual in themselves. Feelings can fade over time, but it can be used repeatedly. For the medication to be effective, the user must consciously desire its success and actively envision the target individual.

Baby Boomer refers to individuals born approximately between 1946 and 1964, during the post-World War II population boom. In contrast, Generation Alpha includes individuals born from 2010 onwards. 

Mojtaba Khamenei is the likely successor to his father, Ali Khomenei, for the position of for the Supreme Leader of Iran. The Supreme Leader is the head of state and the highest political and religious authority of Iran. He delineates the general policies of and supervises the legislature, judiciary, executive and military branches.

Intelligence, for the purposes of this debate, is defined as having sophisticated logical problem solving skills, and/or immense knowledge. Intelligence is measured by standardised testing and traditional academic metrics (e.g., SATs, MENSA, GMSAT, Gaokao etc.).

Protectionism refers to economic policies taken by a country to protect its industries from foreign competition. Sometimes protectionism can attract economic retaliation by foreign countries; this can look like filing a lawsuit against protectionist countries at the World Trade Organisation, and imposing tariffs or sanctions etc.

For the purposes of the debate, a commune refers to a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities. They have their own governance structures and do not report to or pay taxes to any authority outside of their commune. An empire is a political unit made up of many territories and peoples, usually through conquest. It has a central supreme authority or central government, usually an emperor or empress, exercising political control over subordinate peripheries.

Systemic reparations are a form of reparations that seek to change the structure and aims of international organisations in order to advance the causes of affected groups. This could include (but is not limited to) increased votes or power on councils and working groups at organisations like the Security Council, the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organisation etc.
Financial reparations predominantly take the form of direct cash transfers, debt relief or lump sum grants and payments.