This gave equal weight to the Classical and the post-Classical ( especially Byzantine ) periods, which many in Korais'time had dismissed as wasted centuries of subjection to'Oriental despotism '.
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This was not a road to the future, but a retreat to the past; to new forms of oriental despotism; to a new and more terrible style of Tsarism.
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"BY THE IMPERIAL noonday, then, the spectacle of the Empire was flamboyant indeed, coloured as much by Oriental despotism and barbaric gesture as by feudal example from nearer home.
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In Marxist ontology, Oriental despotism is the quality of the large cities of the Middle East and Asia, which would not have been truly independent, mainly due to their geographical location.
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Sir Edward Creasey saw the battle of Marathon in 490 B . C . as a showdown between East and West and credited the victorious Greeks with saving Western civilization from Oriental despotism.
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One theory of history, put forward in the influential book " Oriental Despotism ", holds that many empires were organized around a central authority that controlled a population through monopolizing the water supply.
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The Mongols have been blamed for the destruction of Kievan Rus', the breakup of the ancient Rus'nationality into three components, and the introduction of the concept of " oriental despotism " into Russia.
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Geertz emphasizes that there is no central control of the timing of these rituals, and hence that the state is not an " oriental despotism " controlling the population through the control of water.
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To provide additional motivation, the current spoken or demotic Greek was widely condemned as " base " and " vulgar ", the damaged product of centuries of linguistic corruption by subjection to Ottoman " Oriental despotism ".
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His major works were " Research into the Origins of Oriental Despotism " ( �Recherches sur l origine du despotisme oriental? 1761 ) and " Antiquity Unveiled " ( �L Antiquit?d�voil�e par ses usages? 1766 ).
