Posted: Mar 15, 2020 2:10 am
Nevets wrote:Hermit wrote:China, and it will very likely win. Historians, if there are any left in the future, will see the "west" - defined in terms of capitalist democracies - as a brief blip on the timeline of human civilisations.
Chinese proto writing began 7000 years agoChinese proto-writing existed in Jiahu around 7000 bce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China#Prehistory
The first Chinese dynasty was 2100BCAccording to Chinese tradition, the first dynasty was the Xia, which emerged around 2100 bce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China#Prehistory
If ruling the world was in anyway practical, they either, already do, or, never will.
It's the economy, Nevets. If anything, the Chinese language, specifically the difficulty in communicating with it in writing, Has been a handicap. The Japanese suffered from the same, but have become quite adept at using the western alphabet. China is on the same path now.