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The Dig: Before the West w/ Ayşe Zarakol

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The Gray Khan Was a World Queror.

In the chingasin model, extreme centralization of political authority was intimately linked with the notion of universal sovereignty. And then chingasit empires, also managed succession. Succession through tanistry, a way of handling cession that is different from the primogeniture model more common in european monarchies. In tanistry, members of the ruling house are all eligible to inherit but there is no established order of secession.

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