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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4592014, member: 93416&quot;]Total history would be the sum of trillions of acts by billions of people over millennia. So massive simplifications to get to generalisations that are understandable are unavoidable. And people being people build all sorts of self serving bias into making the simplifications. This particular date matter is surely one, but one of a very long list……..</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>More a matter of East really – just three very fertile populous zones between about 20 and 45 degrees North.</p><p><br /></p><p>There seem to be two further points of similarity regarding the three zone.</p><p><br /></p><p>a) all three were in a period of intellectual ferment/revolution (sophists/upanishads/100 schools)</p><p><br /></p><p>b) all three zones were balkanised into warring mini-states</p><p><br /></p><p>Seems like maybe the states had to monetize to keep up with each other in a kind of ‘modernising intellectual arms race’.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would think particularly about say the reactionary Plato – who wished to restore stability by making it illegal for ordinary citizens to ever meet foreigners (Statesman)</p><p><br /></p><p>Or alternatively in China – the Guanzi has a chapter on waging economic warfare. The plan being to disable the enemy state by manufacturing goods very cheaply and flooding their market - in order to weaken them financially……………..</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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