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The story of the great divergence between Europe and Asia is the great drama of the nineteenth-century world economy. This is the period when the world fell into the hands of the North Atlantic powers, first Britain and the other European empires, and then in the twentieth century the United States, especially after World War II. Only with the rapi
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
The Mongol Empire began to unravel in the fourteenth century from internal dissension, disintegrating into a number of separate khanates. Those, in turn, soon collapsed. China was recaptured by Han rulers in 1378, ending a century of Mongol rule and ushering in the Ming Dynasty. Other Mongol khanates lasted longer, but generally were overtaken by l
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
The Yuan follow up on this by being super into global trade, commerce, and cultural exchange (whether anyone else wants to or not)... to the point where their shoddy economic policies, climate change, and the Black Death burn out the Chinese economy and throw the whole region in chaos (again)
Then the Ming comes in, saying "screw that, we're going b... See more
Then the Ming comes in, saying "screw that, we're going b... See more
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Ming rule represented a vehement reaction against what was seen by its original supporters as the corruption, oppression and overtaxation of the Mongol Yuan.