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In the Inferno, Dante places the Persion philosopher Ibn Sina in Limbo alongside other virtuous pagans. Was the idea that these Islamic intellectual figures were essentially good men who had the bad luck of being born into a non-Christian community a common way of understanding Muslim thinkers?
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Arguably the greatest innovation Genghis Khan made to steppe warfare was the incorporation of Chinese siege units into his army. What was life actually like for these Chinese members of the horde? Would they have been treated as any other soldiers, or would they have been seen as glorified slaves?
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Snobbish early Western scholars of China thought the logographic script was simple pictographs. The courts of classical China had no shortage of cultural elitism, and access to Sanskrit/Devanagari. Do Chinese sources ever present a similarly derisive view of phonetic scripts/Indo-European languages?
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