Jiang Xueqin tells the entire story of humanity, from the Ice Age to the Pax Americana.
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The Byzantine empire saw itself as the continuation of the Roman empire. In this lecture to his Chinese high school students, Jiang Xueqin argues that Constantinople and Rome had opposing cultural systems. Rome was a pagan Latin republic, and Constantinople was a Christian multicultural empire.