To be frank I don't know much about Ancient China, so maybe there were factors limiting their ability to set up exploration fleets. But it seems like they invented a lot of things long before other nations, when others were still in mud huts, these guys had great Empires, before the Romans and all that.
So why is it they don't have territories in Europe, Africa, America etc? Britain, France etc seemed to go all over the world, claiming areas of land as their own. Hell we took over the whole of North America.
They had ships long before us, thousands of years. Why didn't they expand like we did and lay claim to far away nations, beat back the indigenous population as we did.
We have random little islands in the Far east, or at least did at some point, independence wars and all that. But I don't see random little islands in the West having a Chinese population.
英國人評論:
tanzeel
Re: Why didn't China dominate the globe?
I don't know whether or not they had the means to expand way back when others didn't, but if they did have the means and didn't utilize them, I'm assuming that they believed in "live and let live" rather than "walk all over those worse off than you and then whine, moan when they bite back."
我不知道如果讓中國是否有重新進行擴張之路的意圖，而其它國家不能擴張，但如果他們有這個意圖，而且沒有利用起來。我認為這是因為他們相信“待人寬容，和平共處”，而不是“趁人之危”。
robin22391
Re: Why didn't China dominate the globe?
their explorers were orderd not to explore anymore. they were never a match for europe anyway.
他們的探險者被命令不能再進行任何探險，他們永遠不再是歐洲的對手了。
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Ewan
Re: Why didn't China dominate the globe?
Traditionally less expansionistic than the European nations.
