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I think this is related to politics
Spanky,
Do you remember in GG&S the reasons that Diamond gave for the failure of China to turn into a Europe and go out and conquer the world (beyond Asiatic island cultures)? I know it was not as close to the fertile crescent and I remember he argued that the conservative/closed/unitary nature of their society differed from the Europeans, but was there more to it than that? After all, they had the horizontal axis thing and all that going on.
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