The sixteenth century was, you know, the end of time, in a way. So they were competing with each other these houses, to be lords at the end oftime. And its it ties into these ideas of innamillennial sovereignty - and that goes back to what we about astrology being just like common language that's bringing all these different belief systems together.
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.
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