Comments by "Ponto" (@Ponto-zv9vf) on "The Historian's Craft" channel.

  1. Question: Are you suggesting that the Romans lumped Crete with Egypt? Chinese languages are actually quite different from each other, whereas Romance languages derived from some form of spoken Latin, and are more closely related than the Chinese languages to Mandarin. The Romans only cared for taxes, and peace in their provinces, as long as you didn't respect their laws and religious beliefs, you could believe in your Gods, your language and your culture. Latin and Greek were the languages of the Empire, and Roman money the currency, so the Empire was unified in a sense without exterminating the ethnic differences of the various Roman citizens. China on the other hand tended to be authoritarian and as it is today, a totalitarian State. The Chinese has a form of ethnic cleansing, that is they moved into the territories of different ethnicities and formed clans which incorporated the non Han ethnic groups, and dominated them genetically at least in the male lines. Much the same happened in Europe when the Steppe Herders moved into Europe proper from its periphery, and took local women as their wives and concubines leading to the almost complete replace of the male lines in Western Europe.
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