Absolutely. There are soooooooo many similarities, just with a futuristic twist. Rome refused to change with the times and other city states that modernized and welcomed new people did swimmingly. You can’t force everyone to conform to your ideology unless you’re ways are obviously better and easier to incorporate into your own society. Look at the fall of Chinese dynasties. They tried so hard to stay isolated but (right or wrong how it happened) but if they opened up and simply took the parts they needed (guns, boats capable of traveling oceans, and trains.) t hey would have done much better. Kinda like Japan. Japan messed up by picking a fight with the country they were learning from.