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Europe didn't have any of the large, stable empires like a lot of the rest of the world, i.e. China's various empires, Sassanid Persia, Mughal India, etc. That
by barrow-rider 8y ago
Europe didn't have any of the large, stable empires like a lot of the rest of the world, i.e. China's various empires, Sassanid Persia, Mughal India, etc.
That's not to say that violence didn't happen, things didn't fall apart -- they sure did -- but compared to Europe they had 200-300 year stretches of relative peace.
- iguy 8y agoI think China might be the outlier here, not Europe. (Thinking of the last 1000 years, say.) India was very fragmented -- the Mughals achieved great extent and then great longevity, but not both at the same time.