Why Empires Fall
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Dangers of Political Relationships
China is an unshiftable empire, you can't go back to a world of American led Western world dominion. It won't happen. And as John says, if you try and reassert the old world in the new conditions, that's exactly when you will get conflict. The superpower conflict when neither side can win is a crazy option and is the one to stay away from. So the sort of Rome-Purger relationship goes massively out of balance in the late six and early seven centuries. They destroy each other. This is what creates the power vacuum into which Muhammad's new religion can explode as a uniting force to create the whole Islamic world.
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