Is China like a Roman Empire that didn't decline and fall, but instead held on?

Boojatta

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Tue Jun-29-10 12:35 PM
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Is China like a Roman Empire that didn't decline and fall, but instead held on?

How did China get to be so large, and why didn't it break up?

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UndertheOcean

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Tue Jun-29-10 12:37 PM
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1. I know what you did last summer .

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proteus_lives

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Tue Jun-29-10 12:38 PM
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2. Really?

Wow, what a nonsense question.

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Tue Jun-29-10 12:41 PM
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4. Welcome to the Boojatta threads.

I see you're new here.

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Davis_X_Machina

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Tue Jun-29-10 12:40 PM
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3. China 'fell' numerous times...

...and broke up numerous times.

You've got a Warring States period, and the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, for starters, and invasions by the Manchu, the Hsi/Huns, the Mongols....

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Boojatta

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Tue Jun-29-10 12:46 PM
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7. What's the largest number of independent pieces that it broke up into?

I don't get the impression that China today is like the European Union, so what kind of process of re-unification occurred?

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eShirl

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Tue Jun-29-10 12:42 PM
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5. Are you asking, is it like the Byzantine Empire?

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UTUSN

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Tue Jun-29-10 12:43 PM
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6. From 2 semesters of Chinese history...

Edited on Tue Jun-29-10 12:45 PM by UTUSN

Which was a total blur, since it covers 5,000 yrs or so and hundreds of personalities.

Invaders did their thing, toppled the Chinese, different ones several times, but Chinese CULTURE would swallow up and absorb the invaders. Like what wingnuts call "assimilation," getting all new immigrant populations to Americanize and act like, look like, WASPs.

The Chinese had nothing but time, letting centuries do their wearing the foreign characteristics out.

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SunnySong

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Tue Jun-29-10 01:01 PM
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8. May i recommend an educational video on China's history Ikki t�sen

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486171/

1800 years after the original battle, Hakufu faces the ultimate showdown with Ukitsu.

http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi1852375065/

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hatrack

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Tue Jun-29-10 01:03 PM
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9. Busted up many times, by different invaders, with catastrophic results

There's a fairly common assumption among many Chinese that it's been all downhill since the T'ang - and that dynasty ended around 900 C.E.

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