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I know 2000 years ago was so different, let's see: - China was run by the Han, and trade with China was very important for the West. - Western Europe was part
by labster 10y ago
I know 2000 years ago was so different, let's see:
- China was run by the Han, and trade with China was very important for the West.
- Western Europe was part of a large power bloc, using the same money (with border struggles in Britannia).
- Judea was a gyre of instability that bedeviled the West and sucked them into middle east conflicts.
- Egypt had the strongest military in all of Africa.
Physical geography determines a lot of cultural geography; similar power dynamics replay over generations.
- M2Ys4U 10y ago"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme".
- gfaure 10y agoYes -- the name of the Han people and the name of the logographic script Hanzi are both meant to recall the golden age of the Han dynasty.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- labster 10y agoActually rhyming is a question I don't know the answer to: is the character for Han dynasty the same as for what are called Han Chinese people today? I'm not sure if I was punning or describing the same ethnic group.