Absolutely - I'm not denigrating what the people and civilizations in that area did, I'm saying that the previous statements have heavy qualifiers. I mean we h

Absolutely - I'm not denigrating what the people and civilizations in that area did, I'm saying that the previous statements have heavy qualifiers. I mean we have records and arts and artifacts in England before it was called that and unified back to the 6th century BC. We have evidence of massive sophisticated construction back to 3300 BC! But are those "British"? If not then the point about the Qin dynasty is valid. If so then Britain has the same storied history as China (though not the volume of artifacts). It can't be selective standards for each.