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A Note on the Ancient World-Systems

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Author:
Ervand Margaryan Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) Univesity, Yerevan

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22 Jun 2018
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The article deals with the relationship of such concepts as the world-system and civilisation, both living independently and co-existing in time and space. World-systems and civilisations may be forced to unite into hyper-systems, or world-empires of different kind—self-sufficient, militarist-parasitic, and mixed type. Militarist empires-parasites can be settled and nomadic. Nomadic or bivouac empires are empires-armies, which exist only in movement. Stopping leads either to the death of the empire-army, or to the transformation into one but usually several stationary empires, mostly also militarist-parasitic.

Title:
A Note on the Ancient World-Systems
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384X-20180205
Language:
English
Pages:
160–167
Keywords:
World-systems; Civilisation; Contact Zone (Area); World-empires; Nomadic Empires
In:
Iran and the Caucasus
In:
Volume 22: Issue 2
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1573-384X
Print ISSN:
1609-8498
Subjects:
Central Asia, Asian Studies, History & Culture, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Iran & Persian Studies

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