“Contemporaries struggled to make sense of what, to them, was the complete collapse of the world order. “Why does [God] allow us… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
“The faithful had previously been told to face Jerusalem when they prayed. In 628, however, following further revelation, it was apparently announced that this… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
“There is more going on, then, than the clumsy interventions of the west in Iraq and Afghanistan and the use of pressure in Ukraine,… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
“The stunning corpus of poetry produced during the war likewise paints a very different picture of how the conflict was viewed at the time.… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
“Farming also increasingly became an important part of the steppe economy, with crops being planted across the Lower Volga region, which included ‘many tilled… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
“An English visitor to Amsterdam in 1640 could not hide how impressed he was by what he saw. In the Low Countries, wrote Peter… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
“In truth, France. Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal and England had nothing to do with Athens and the history of Rome from its earliest days… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
“Arnold Wilson complained he had to spend time bridging the cultural gap between the British “who cannot say what they mean and Persians who… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
“The age of empire and the rise of the west were built on the capacity to inflict violence on a major scale. The Enlightenment… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
“The first port of call was the Americans. In 1974, an initial agreement was reached by which the US agreed to sell two reactors,… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century, it was to the west and to the United States that such individuals looked for fame and fortune; a millennium… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
“Contemporaries struggled to make sense of what, to them, was the complete collapse of the world order. “Why does [God] allow us to be… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
“Albrecht Dürer was stunned by the quality of the craftsmanship of Aztec treasures he saw exhibited in 1520. “Nothing I have seen in all… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
