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> quite a bit younger than You have introduced a comparison, which thus begs the following questions: 1. What is the event that defines "China proper"? 2. Wha
by drabbiticus 1mo ago
> quite a bit younger than
You have introduced a comparison, which thus begs the following questions:
1. What is the event that defines "China proper"?
2. What is the event that defines "Europe [proper]" to you?
- otabdeveloper4 1mo ago1. Whatever was happening in Zhou. (Not sure it was really a "dynasty" pe se.) 2. Proto-Indo-European and Ancient Egyptian cultural norms and patterns are still very much alive in "Europe" today, so probably the invention of the wheel in the early Bronze Age is a good start.