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Jiang’s model of Arabia as trade center, refuge, and cultural connector rather than periphery.
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Arabian desert as crossroads
Jiang’s model of Arabia as trade center, refuge, and cultural connector rather than periphery.
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"At first, they're welcomed by the Persians, because these tend to be very well -educated Christians who contribute a lot to the empire. But..."
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"...desert, we don't talk much about it, but it is a crossroads of empire, and it's a crossroads of culture as well. And there..."
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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