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“Rest assured, she [Gertrude Bell] told Jafar al-Askari, soon to be appointed Prime Minister of the new country of Iraq, that complete independence is what we [the British] ultimately wish to give.’ ‘My lady,’ he replied, ‘complete independence is never given—always taken.’”

I’m on chapter 12 I think, it’s now moving out of the peak of the Silk Road and towards its collapse. By collapse I mean the point where it stops being interesting to me.

From here it will just talk about the current system we have today. Where countries are trading from across the globe and how it begins. Which I’ve already inferred just from my own research.

Could have sworn I was farther in. Need to learn how to read footnotes 😓