>random tiny isolated valley rules civ, is most cosmopolitan and originator of most culture>big valley covered in rivers with even better protection totally absent from relevance>coasts depopulated to the point actually difficult to travel along them>inland swamps full of people>crazy dangerous barbarians come from a bunch of flat fields >mountains and desert and other geographies typically conducive to periphery outsiders/dangerous barbarians filled with passive slave peopleExplain why they are backwards in every way
>vast open areagets fucked by nomadic pastoralists>isolated defensible regionez mode.
>>18436806>>mountains and desert and other geographies typically conducive to periphery outsiders/dangerous barbarians filled with passive slave peopleAnon please stop being retarded. Or idk, read up on the places you are commenting on before saying stuff like this. And anyway, South China is not a backwater and hasn't been since the fall of the Han Dynasty.
>>18436902>south china>not a backwater in Hanliterally less Populus than tibet, why? no idea.
>>18436896It doesn't really explain why the much larger and more defensible and less prone to GIGA flooding Szechuan basin is basically irrelavent - unless its because Chang is hiding the history of some genocide and wuzzery
>>18437762Anonino, ESL-KUN, I didn't say that. I said that after the fall of the Han dynasty, South China stopped being a backwater, principally because of the mass migration from the north.
>>18437762It started getting colder.
>>18436806Slaves hide in the shitty mountains to get away from Chad barbarians who rule the steppe
