> The various Chinese tongues have long been called dialects, yet many are mutually unintelligible.
China, India, and Europe are on a continuum of separateness / unification, just fixated at different points in it. Europe is the most disunited, China the most unified. But basically the stories are the same. Areas of intense trade and cultural interchange, achieving different levels of political unity.
China, India, and Europe are on a continuum of separateness / unification, just fixated at different points in it. Europe is the most disunited, China the most unified. But basically the stories are the same. Areas of intense trade and cultural interchange, achieving different levels of political unity.