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Jiang applies Doug's point to Islam: when the Islamic empire shifted its capital to Baghdad, it became a multicultural universal empire forced to absorb different traditions and cultures.
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Jiang calls the Han the last ethnically Chinese dynasty committed to protecting and propagating Chinese culture, and presents the Tang as a Xianbei-founded universal multicultural empire.
Jiang applies Doug's point to Islam: when the Islamic empire shifted its capital to Baghdad, it became a multicultural universal empire forced to absorb different traditions and cultures.
"...And as a result, they will switch China into a universal multicultural empire. The Tang Dynasty is famous for being... Extremely open, tolerant, and..."
"Around the year 1600. Okay? And that was when England which for the longest time was this poor island island was now becoming emerging..."
"...went over to America, how was America able to become this multicultural empire? Right? Because that goes against a lot of periodical teachings. And..."
"They wanted to found a tolerant, multicultural, empire. Okay? So these are two dominant strands in America. And, quite honestly, what's really important is,..."
"...influenced the cultures of Korea, Japan, and this extremely diverse, inclusive, multicultural empire that introduced Buddhism to China, okay? But the problem with the..."
China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
The easy story says modernity begins in Europe after a medieval interruption.
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