Read “human accomplishment”. Not to diminish chinese history, but being first is

Read “human accomplishment”. Not to diminish chinese history, but being first is not the same as being most or fastest, and europe was most and fastest, and most often first. Between 95-98% of human invntion was western. China is interesting largly for invention but then doing nothing with it or even supressing it. However rice is a better caloric crop even if rice farming is a worse time crop. And with that large a population concentrating that much surplus, they could do amazing things. especially those monster ships. 😉

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