The Dig: Before the West w/ Ayşe Zarakol
Jacobin Radio
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The Chinese Empire and Imperial Legitimacy
Gangas khan's empire ultimately fractures into four distinct kanates. How did that fracturing have on their ability to perpetuate empire and imperial legitimacy? And why, amid what is known as the general crisis of the fourteenth century, did they fail? All but the golden horde losing power in originally the empire was centred in inner asia, or in what we call central asia.
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