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Spengler seemingly believed that there were many Indo-European tribes that have been lost to history. Linguistic comparison is insufficient for understanding the totality of the Indo-European expansion. Many disappeared, were destroyed, or merged with other tribes (the Zhou !?)
"the Zhou were blond"

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The mainstream is starting to catch up...
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An overview of the development of Chinese political forms according to Table III of Spengler's Decline of the West.

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What's wonderful about these charts is that they perfectly summarize Spengler's thesis.

1) Civilizations develop according to a predictable 'morphological' structure.
2) Each stage of this development has a particular characteristic which defines the age.
Spengler mentions at the end of the introduction that he's using the comparative morphology [of Goethe] to develop 'a science of Symbolic'.
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I'm going to get ahead of this and say that claiming objectivity starts with Ranke was way too bold of a formulation. The nuanced answer is that the shifts in historiography pioneered by Ranke emphasized the importance of objectivity.
Spengler also has some nice things to say about Ranke if you're interested.
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People forget the extent to which Germany was the intellectual capital of the Western world prior to the mid 20th-century. Before Harvard, Yale, and Oxford, there were Humboldt, Göttingen, and Heidelberg. Germany dominated the sciences and humanities.
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