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Jiang argues that around the year 1300 Europe would have looked barbaric, censored, anti-learning, and hopeless to observers from stronger civilizations such as Baghdad, China, or the Mayan world.
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Jiang frames early Rome as a small, poor Latin kingdom whose later imperial success could not have been predicted from its starting position among Etruscans, Greeks, and Carthaginians.
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"So, let's go to the year 1300. In the year 1300, there are many places in the world. Okay? In the Middle East, there's..."
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"Okay. So I'm trying to make a point here. Okay? The point is that in the year 1300, if you were a Mayan and..."
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"Okay, so we start Rome today, and we will spend the next four classes on the rise of the Roman Republic and then the..."
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"And slowly, they'll build up their own little empire across the Mediterranean. And they are, for the longest time, the wealthiest city in Europe,..."
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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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