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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 4859307, member: 75143&quot;]Another thought. When studying very early Chinese Buddhist architecture, the best extant sources are in Korea and Japan. Despite not being China, those two countries found that some aspects of their culture, such as religious architecture, stayed relatively stagnant while it evolved in China.</p><p>Another example is Chinese painting. After the Ming dynasty was taken over by the barbarian Qing, the Koreans considered that to be the end of real China, as the Manchus weren&#039;t &quot;chinese enough.&quot; So, despite painting evolving quite a bit in China proper, the Koreans continued to paint in the Ming style, artificially slowing the evolution and preserving the style in time.</p><p><br /></p><p>IF one can apply that to Eastern mints of Rome, then it could be that the provinces artificially stunted artistic evolution to be closer to what they believed to be a more glorious time in history. Who knows[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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