Quote by Peter Frankopan

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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