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The recurring cycle of Chinese dynastic rise and decline would have played out regardless of European intervention.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“So that cycle would play out, I think, regardless of whether the Europeans intervened.”Play from 1:28:14Report a misattribution
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