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How much currency does the concept of Oriental Despotism, being that ancient and medieval Middle Eastern and Asiatic rulers ruled absolutely without relying on a wide range of power bases as would occur in the West, have in modern historiography?

by /u/Full-Yellow in /r/AskHistorians

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