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Gabriel Martinez-Gros: “What Will Happen After the Fall of the Western Empire?”

2022-10-04T15:56:13.221Z


BIG INTERVIEW - In an erudite work "The drag of empires, impotence and religions", the medievalist analyzes the advent of monotheistic religions, born on the dust of the great empires. In the light of history, he tries to imagine what will happen after our civilization.


Gabriel Martinez-Gros is a professor of medieval history in the Muslim world at the University of Paris X Nanterre.

LE FIGARO.

- In this book, you continue your brilliant odyssey of empires.

You demonstrate that the three monotheistic religions are the perpetuation of the three great political empires (Rome, China, Islam).

They are born when they disappear.

If we consider that the Western empire is dying, what would be the new dogmas?

Gabriel MARTINEZ-GROS.

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The typical sequence of the formation of the great empires (Rome, China, Islam) comprises three stages: first a stage of "Warring States", launched into the warlike enterprise of imperial unification (thus the Chinese Warring States between 480 and 220 BC, the Greek cities and Macedonia of Alexander between 480 and 300 BC approximately, the Roman Republic from its confrontation with Carthage, between 264 and 30 BC or the Arab tribes of the conquests of the 'Islam…

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Source: lefigaro

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