the highly civilized mode of living. 100-300 Full power of the Empire, then disintegration in the West. 1250-1400 Rise-fall of the Ilkhanate ; rise of Ottoman Turks under whom the moribund culture endures to 1920. 2105-2522 Full power; then decline and fall of Bureaucratic State. A8. Fixed forms, giganticism, imperial display Triumphal