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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1746560, member: 26302"]My view is there cannot be a uniform date. As Eurocentric as we try to be, the world "did not end" with the fall of western Rome to the Ostrogoths. Most of the world did not even notice.</p><p> </p><p>For mediterranean coinage, I agree Anastasius' reform is as good as any for a delineation. For the middle east, I use the rise of Islam as the demarcation, and for Chinese I use the reunification of China under the Tang as the cutoff point. I think these three are all justifiable. In fact, the cutoff between ancient and medieval to me is much easier than the cutoff between medieval and modern. Some say machine presses, yet that is another Eurocentric idea in my mind.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1746560, member: 26302"]My view is there cannot be a uniform date. As Eurocentric as we try to be, the world "did not end" with the fall of western Rome to the Ostrogoths. Most of the world did not even notice. For mediterranean coinage, I agree Anastasius' reform is as good as any for a delineation. For the middle east, I use the rise of Islam as the demarcation, and for Chinese I use the reunification of China under the Tang as the cutoff point. I think these three are all justifiable. In fact, the cutoff between ancient and medieval to me is much easier than the cutoff between medieval and modern. Some say machine presses, yet that is another Eurocentric idea in my mind.[/QUOTE]
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