Assertion: caliphate | /r/CapableOf | administer huge areas
Facets:
value: with a standing army
type: OTHER
value: with cairo
type: OTHER
value: with a literate and numerate bureaucracy
type: OTHER
value: with baghdad
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: These events continue to be an inspiration partly because they recall a world in which the caliphate was the most powerful and advanced polity in the whole of western Eurasia, when Baghdad had a population of some half a million while London and Paris could only boast a few thousand inhabitants, when the caliphate administered huge areas with a standing army and a literate and numerate bureaucracy and Baghdad and Cairo were huge centres of trade and culture.