The Early Ming Dynasty

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Early early ming were very much under the influence of the chingisin sovereignty model. They wanted to be recognized by the rest of asia as, you know, the great emperors. Andmin thises, the period of o now, the treasure voyagers, but also overlooked, now, there were all these overland overtures. So they couldn't but think of the world in those terms - even as they rejected them.

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