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Did they? As far as i remember, the chinese empire was toppled by a small fast changing merchant nation on a island half way around the world. Beginning a hund
by OneTimePetes 5y ago
Did they?
As far as i remember, the chinese empire was toppled by a small fast changing merchant nation on a island half way around the world. Beginning a hundred years were it was trampled by repeatedly including by another island nation nearby.
The roman empire died the strangest death of all, it created such a tremendous underclass stagnant in misery (slaves, woman, all non-citizens) that a religion could basically overwrite its whole culture, erasing it from existence, without leaving behind even the technological advances.
- chopin 5y agoSurely both ended - after existing longer than any empire I know of. China is on its way to become a superpower again. One could argue that the last 150 years are merely a temporary dip.
- OneTimePetes 5y agoChina is spiraling back down the well. They are currently closing off, like north korea. Theire age pyramid is coming down hard on them. They have not yet a fully working info-economy, so they are running out of cheap manual labour. So many before them, were to take the throne for all eternity, the japanese, the koreans and then they all became just another part of a connected world and on the throne remained, he who could in-cooperate change the fastest and most efficient.