In the first post in this series, I considered the development of Greek and Roman cosmopolitanism. In the second, I considered the development of a Near Eastern/Southwest and Central Asian model of cosmopolitanism in the Assyrian and Persian empires. In this post and the next one, I turn southward towards Egypt and Africa before progressing eastward to …
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