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Eurasia - What Are Some of the Major Powers?
Eurasia is a huge meeting point for all those different cultures and dynasties in that Eurasian landmass. The Pacific and the Atlantic are very much not in play at this point in time, nor of course, Europe. So you've got these big empires which are centering themselves on imperial administrative centers like the Ming dynasty. But increasingly then the rise of the Ottomans, Sunni Muslim Empire, takes it from Byzantine Orthodox imperial power.
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