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tome
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When Roman “Barbarians” Met the Asian Enlightenmen...
> it is badly overstating things to claim, as the author does, that the Roman empire was not a "dim backwater by comparison"
I think you mean "it is overstating to claim Rome
was
a dim backwater".
GunboatDiplomat
on Oct 4, 2016
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Especially given that Rome was the largest city in the world from maybe 100 BCE to in the neighborhood of 400 CE.
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I think you mean "it is overstating to claim Rome was a dim backwater".