"The extra 250 years include the Mongol Empire and Mansa Musa of the Mali Empire, “`two of our major grievances,`” she said, but still excludes several West African empires, Chinese dynasties and the Islamic caliphates, who were all crucial in the development of the modern world.
How and in what way was did the Mongols, the Mali Empire, West African empires, Chinese dynasties, and Islamic caliphates crucially contribute to the modern world?
The attempt is to diminish the European contribution. Which is more crucial to governance, gender relations, constitutions, liberty, human rights? Clearly the Western European tradition is crucial; the non-West is instructive to know but did not contribute to modern banking, the economic system, the nation-state nor liberty.
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