Comments by "Mark Armage" (@markarmage3776) on "The most influential leader in history | Gregory Aldrete and Lex Fridman" video.

@bigmitchtv3922 Yeah, not really, buddy. Modern civilization of the overwhelming majority of the world has absolutely nothing to do with Greek or Rome. Because the overwhelming majority of the world, most specifically India and China have their own history and their own system of politics. Now that might hurt your feelings, but that's the truth, especially the Chinese, if there was a fight, both on land and at sea, the Chinese Empire would have destroyed the Romans. The population size difference is gigantic, even in ancient times. Roman Empire is one single place conquering and forcing others into servitude, while China really is one cohesive unity, at least in national identity.
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@gheddafiduck8239 The Chinese currently has a bureaucracy resembles their own version of bureaucracy from the Han Dynasty, with one Emperor and countless advisors/ committees and ministry dividing into sub unit throughout the country. Now this might sound weird to you, but that's their own system which they invented themselves, they're calling it by a different name but the characteristics are exactly the same. Furthermore, it is within their culture that advisors have a responsibility to stand up against the emperor if the emperor is conducting bad behavior, this is literally recorded countless times throughout their 3000 year continuous history. That's the Chinese system, now the Indian one is quite weird, seemingly they're trying to develop their own version but they're getting distracted with the Imperial system and now they're in some sort of hybrid mess system, they're slowly getting out of it and soon will have a system of their own
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@gheddafiduck8239 Overwhelming majority, buddy. China, India, most of Asia and Arabia are already more than 2/3 of global population. The part that is influenced by Rome is America the continent plus Europe, that's less than 2 billion people, keep it real, homie.
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@olorin3815 Buddy, those dynasties always recognize themselves as continuation of each other, do you get that? There has always been one China, ever since the Qin dynasty, different names of Dynasties, same country, same culture, same economics, same language. The wars they have between themselves is to unify the country back to one, buddy, you need a better education in history, buddy. Those wars are between different warlords governing districts within China to see who rules over China, there was never a time where they consider themselves separate countries conquering other places. There is one people, one country. Unlike the "Romans". All big empires have some sort of infighting, peak for peak, there's no discussion, the Chinese Empire stood on top of human civilization for about 30% of recorded human history.
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@mat3714 Oooooh, Imperial baby is sad. Don't worry, be happy
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@iamyoda66 Buddy, you might live under that delusions, but that's not the truth. There's no Western system in China or India, here's a clue for a simpleton like you, just because they name it one way doesn't mean it's like that. You have to learn to be a bit more sophisticated. Technology is not exclusively Western, buddy, technology and knowledge belongs to mankind, and it was contributed equally by multiple countries throughout history, for example, you are using the Arabic numeral system, among which there's a zero first contributed by the Indian, and then the trigonometry identities also contributed by the Indian, and the knowledge was replicated and transported throughout the world by sea faring, which is only possible via compass invented in China. Keep your head down, sad lay person.
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@gheddafiduck8239 Buddy, just you colonized people doesn't mean that you have a bigger influence on them than their own history. Show some respect, simpleton. So if a person beat you up once? Then that person suddenly has a tremendous impact on your entire life? Such a crude understanding of things.
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@bena9966 Buddy, if you think China follows communism, you're just a naive little lamb. You have to wake up from the bubble, buddy, here's a clue, sophisticated people don't always say what they do, be less crude. And the most obvious proof of your ignorance is that you think 300 recent years can overtake the previous 5000 years or so. Do you know math? Do math, not meth.
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