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Jiang says Rome’s western fall is less meaningful than it appears because power had already shifted from empire to Church, and post-Roman warlords still considered themselves heirs of Rome.
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Jiang says Rome’s western fall is less meaningful than it appears because power had already shifted from empire to Church, and post-Roman warlords still considered themselves heirs of Rome.
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"Now let's talk about the Western Empire, okay? Because that's where our focus will be for the next semester. First of all, Islam. In..."
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"...okay? But from their perspective, the empire never fell because these warlords think that I'm the empire now, okay? And so what's going to..."
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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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