It feels like he defines an empire as everything larger than like Venice
>>24829327>from Genghis Khan to Napoleon, Scheidel shows how the demise of Rome and the enduring failure of empire-building on European soil ensured competitive fragmentation between and within states. This rich diversity encouraged political, economic, scientific, and technological breakthroughs that allowed Europe to surge ahead while other parts of the world lagged behind, burdened as they were by traditional empires and predatory regimes that lived by conquestwow yeah you're right every other place on earth was civilised and europeans lived in primitive cultureless shitholes. how grand, wow i love europe. empire? culture? not for me, give me a king who smears butter on his hair any day!
>>24829327Good book
