I know how people ponder why the chinese ultimately fell so far behind in technology, and i know the answer to that, and the reason is an oppressive government which restricted rights to technological and scientific advancement. Now onto my question. How did china get so advanced in the first place? Around 2300 years ago, when no one in Europe or the Middle East got into advanced crafting the Chinese had already produced a whole army of terracotta warriors carved from stone. Current estimates are that in the three pits containing the Terracotta Army there were over 8,000 soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry horses. It was not until the mid-1700's in Europe that such feats of metallurgy and advanced craft were achieved in Britain, the technically most advanced country of Europe. In china ancient statues were forged from furnaces thousands of years before anybody else in the world got the idea. What made the chinese civilization so advanced, so productive? they had tons of innovators, they understood the laws of mechanics completely more than a thousand years before europeans did. What was the cause of this? I was interested in this question when i watched Guns, Germs and Steel, and i wondered what makes some more advanced than others, what advantages did Europe and Asia have over the rest of the world?
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why was chinese civilization so advanced?
- Thread starter Shuo C
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Agriculture, they had advance farming technology, cast iron tools and beasts of burden to pull plows. Large scale water irrigation systems.
Once food was mass produced and a reliable source of nourishment the people could concentrate on other activities... exploration, war, inventions, philosophy...
European civilization was in war mode before agriculture was fully developed Rome, Greek, Gauls, Persia, Egypt, Carthage and the Macedonia.... Chinese was in war mode after agriculture was fully developed.
Shang and Zhou dynasties functioned with relativity minor war campaigns. Spring and Autumn rise in population... Hegemony kingdoms and absorbing of lesser cultures. Warring States period was next where massive armies and war wreaked havoc within China.
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The Xia dynasty was the earliest Chinese dynasty written in historical records, though some claim it to be a mythological dynasty. Supposedly 2205 to 1766 BC. Egypt holds the record for the earliest civilization at 3000 BC.
Once food was mass produced and a reliable source of nourishment the people could concentrate on other activities... exploration, war, inventions, philosophy...
European civilization was in war mode before agriculture was fully developed Rome, Greek, Gauls, Persia, Egypt, Carthage and the Macedonia.... Chinese was in war mode after agriculture was fully developed.
Shang and Zhou dynasties functioned with relativity minor war campaigns. Spring and Autumn rise in population... Hegemony kingdoms and absorbing of lesser cultures. Warring States period was next where massive armies and war wreaked havoc within China.
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The Xia dynasty was the earliest Chinese dynasty written in historical records, though some claim it to be a mythological dynasty. Supposedly 2205 to 1766 BC. Egypt holds the record for the earliest civilization at 3000 BC.
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Bassz
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I think it is how a country facilitates it's resources to become advanced with a particular product. The fact that China itself was not entirely united, with differing tribes and nations who could contribute to scientific growths and findings. Many things from around the world influenced each other, like China and the ancient middle east within their findings. I don't believe any race has any inert abilities that makes them more advanced than others. This is what I believe however.
mitchellfrank15
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The chinese lost advantage around the industrial revolution, they relied on man-power instead of machine power. I watched a show on the history channel that From the warring states period to the 1500's what the Chinese had. Chrome steel. Multiple firing rockets, land mines, rapid firing and reloading crossbows, steel armour, the first nationalized mass production army. Compound crossbow, hand cranked flamethrower. On mass conscription. Siege towers.
During the Opium War....china lost its power, the british had, repeating rifles, machine guns (gatling guns), thier navy had rifled shell firing guns, steam power.......and iron clads. The chinese wooden junks for their navy and there musket toting army did not have the rapid firepower of Armour protection against the british.
During the Opium War....china lost its power, the british had, repeating rifles, machine guns (gatling guns), thier navy had rifled shell firing guns, steam power.......and iron clads. The chinese wooden junks for their navy and there musket toting army did not have the rapid firepower of Armour protection against the british.
mitchellfrank15
New member
The chinese lost advantage around the industrial revolution, they relied on man-power instead of machine power. I watched a show on the history channel that From the warring states period to the 1500's what the Chinese had. Chrome steel. Multiple firing rockets, land mines, rapid firing and reloading crossbows, steel armour, the first nationalized mass production army. Compound crossbow, hand cranked flamethrower. On mass conscription. Siege towers.
During the Opium War....china lost its power, the british had, repeating rifles, machine guns (gatling guns), thier navy had rifled shell firing guns, steam power.......and iron clads. The chinese wooden junks for their navy and there musket toting army did not have the rapid firepower of Armour protection against the british.
During the Opium War....china lost its power, the british had, repeating rifles, machine guns (gatling guns), thier navy had rifled shell firing guns, steam power.......and iron clads. The chinese wooden junks for their navy and there musket toting army did not have the rapid firepower of Armour protection against the british.