The World of the 13th and 14th Centuries

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The world of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries surprises us. It is much more connected than we would expect, with well established overland and naval routes. Importantly, it was the chingasid empire that made asia this cohesive place you write. And that happened not just through political unification, but also because of trade,. experts, artists and even occult scientists.

Ayşe Zarakol on her book Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders. How centuries of Asian empires from Genghis Khan to Timur and the early Ming Dynasty through the Ottomans and Mughals built dominant world orders and, ultimately, shaped the rise of Europe—and how that all might shape how we think about the crisis in the world order today. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out phenomenalworld.org