Marshall Hodgson

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Marshall Hodgson

American historian

Also known as: Marshall Goodwin Simms Hodgson

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gunpowder empires
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…has been attributed to historians Marshall G.S. Hodgson and William H. McNeill, who coined the term in the 20th century to explain how the three large, centralized Islamic states flourished nearly simultaneously. They proposed that the effective use and, in some cases, monopolization of gunpowder weapons enabled rulers of the…
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…has been attributed to historians Marshall G.S. Hodgson and William H. McNeill, who coined the term in the 20th century to explain how the three large, centralized Islamic states flourished nearly simultaneously. They proposed that the effective use and, in some cases, monopolization of gunpowder weapons enabled rulers of the…
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