huh 20C american wars of conquest were really incredibly gentile the qing just killed e v e r y o n e who pissed them off
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huh russian-chinese border was rooooooughly fixed in 1689 after russians backed down from a conflict with the Qing fascinating
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Yongzheng Emperor's tax reforms are fascinating reading leading me to believe that there have been perhaps no greater tax dodgers in history than the landholders of china
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What do you believe is the relation between education and liberation? Also, why are you awake?
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i suspect it very much depends on the specifics of the education
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Brb gonna read some Plato and Aristotle because I love democracy
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you mean they're one of the first who officially codify formal procedures for expropriation and plunder. normal expropriation I'm sure is much older (otoh they're one of the first human societies to ever arise so probably even that too)
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if you want a people to value freedom, make them illiterate
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well. It has a very long history of laying a veneer of scholastic literacy over nepotism and oligarchy to fool the striver rubes into thinking the reason Beijing runs everything is that the people there are just smarter than everywhere else.
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Was the education widely available or just confined to the upper classes. If only the upper classes then it should be seen as a means of preserving power over the masses.
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