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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' loves this for the non-European based areas of its settings. The "Middle East" tends to be a blend of Turkish, Persian and Arabic influences, and the "[[Far East]]" Japanese and Chinese.
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* ''[[Big Eyes, Small Mouth]]'' actually spells this out for the world of Ikaris: the Seven Stars are described as a fusion of ancient Greece and samurai-era Japan.
* ''[[Exalted]]'' has many of these—always done very deliberately. The one described in the most detail is the Realm: it's mostly a blend of [[The Roman Empire|Imperial Rome]] and [[Dynasties From Shang to Qing|various Chinese dynasties]], but there's also hints of Tokugawa Japan, Achaemenid Persia, and pretty much any other premodern Old World empire you could name.
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