In the sixteenth century, you have these west asian empires that are controlling a majority of the world's economy. They have very strong chingsand influences. And again, they arei really, to run a regime of terror through adon had pronounced it operacin a,. So this is exact yo, say, like this period of itly, there's no better way to describe it. It really is a reign of terror. Very modern in some ways. I make the argument that in us, certain xenephobic or repressive aspects of the rule, in the spirit was more like europe in that period than christianity.
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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