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5000 years is a long time. Cultures rise and fall, people come and go, wars/famines/etc. Think about how much things changed in the US in a few decades. There w
by awkwarddaturtle 9y ago
5000 years is a long time. Cultures rise and fall, people come and go, wars/famines/etc. Think about how much things changed in the US in a few decades. There was a time when we used to eat horse meat and there was a time when the idea of eating raw fish would have been viewed as horrific.
I doubt we'll ever find a definitive reason due to the paucity of historical records from that time. But it probably is a mix of change in fads, wars, cultural shift, etc.
- DonaldFisk 9y agoThe first Chinese history wasn't written down until around 100BC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records_of_the_Grand_Historian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records_of_the_Grand_Historian) and only covered as far back as the Yellow Emperor (2698BC to 2598BC), and the first Chinese writing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_bone_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_bone_script) didn't appear until about 1250BC, so we're entirely reliant on archaeology for the period in question.