
Before the West w/ Ayşe Zarakol
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The Influence of the Mongol Empire
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.
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