Gangis khan's empire ultimately fractures into four distinct kanates. There was almost a an expiry date built in into this type ofa empire building, because it's difficult to pull off in practice. It wasn't just the external s that propelled this contradiction, but it's a contradiction that emerged even within the chingasid world order. The fact that they're not fighting each other means the connections that they had stablished can continue. And so i think that's maybe what's happening o thi point in the fourteenth century.
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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