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The Dig: Before the West w/ Ayşe Zarakol

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The Early Ming Dynasty

The early ming dynasty were very much under the influence of the chingis in sovereignty model. They wanted to be recognized as world emperors, universal sovereigns. And that puts them in discompetition with the timorid on the other side of asia. So they settle into this kind of co existence e with a shared understanding of how the world works. I think that's what a, i like to think of these two,. you know, we wouldn't say the cold war was insignificant just because theit lasted less than a century. It was, it was very significant in its own way.

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