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The Dig: Before the West w/ Ayşe Zarakol

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Ibin Batuta's the World of the Dissenter

The world of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries surprises us. It is much more connected than we would expect, with well established overland and naval routes. The chingasid empire, ded by gangis khan, made asia this cohesive place you write. And that happened not just through political unification, but also because of trade,. experts, artists and even occult scientists.

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