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China has been a unified empire before Europeans traded seashells with each other (I'm exaggerating here a bit). It is about 10 times older than the United Stat
by H8crilA 3y ago
China has been a unified empire before Europeans traded seashells with each other (I'm exaggerating here a bit). It is about 10 times older than the United States or Russia in its current post-mongolian iteration.
China being weak was unusual in the history of civilizations.
While I am firmly in the western camp, not recognizing reality is foolish.
- peterfirefly 3y agoExaggerating a lot. The first unified empire (Qin dynasty) is comparable to Alexander the Great's empire and didn't last much longer. China being weak is also remarkably common -- but there often wasn't a strong enough nearby power to exploit the situation.