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China's loss of creativity after the Song follows from national unification: the center could control provinces in a way earlier dynasties could not.
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China's loss of creativity after the Song follows from national unification: the center could control provinces in a way earlier dynasties could not.
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"The Manchus are just another iteration of the Ming Empire. They will rule China until 1911, when the empire is overthrown, a republic is..."
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"...the Song, okay? Okay? The Song is pretty united, and the Yuan is extremely united. So the Yuan Dynasty is able to unite all..."
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"...Golden Horde will eventually give rise to the Russian Empire. The Yuan Dynasty will eventually fall and give rise to the Ming Empire. Okay?..."
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"...have problems managing the people. Okay? So in China, during the Yuan Dynasty, the Chinese, there's a class system. The Mongols were at the..."
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"...entirety of the Song Empire and unites China, okay? But the Yuan dynasty... The Mongols are considered a foreign dynasty. So I mentioned that..."
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"...a bit better. But when you get to the Song, the Yuan, the Ming, and the Qing, it's all pretty unified nationally."
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"...is the culture. All right? Another example, of course, is the Yuan Dynasty. During the Yuan Dynasty, China was importing a lot of foreign..."
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"...person in China, in Beijing, okay? You're like a kuai di yuan, right? What hope do you have for the future? Your life is..."
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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