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To: TobagoJack who wrote (64646)	7/10/2010 6:26:10 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217749

5 defunct kingdoms: China's Qing, Otoman, British, Romanoff and Habsburg. all down between 1912-1918 The US, who could amass at a single go: vast territories, lots of natural resources, big population, and away from the cut throat theater aka, Europe, provided to their populaces the material well being never ever imagined by the people who lived under the China's Qin, Otoman, British, Romanoff and Habsburg. Now this is chnaging and the chairs will be re-arranged around the table.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (64646)	7/10/2010 6:27:17 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217749

Fiat Money? The Song dynasty was the first government in world history to issue paper money and the first Chinese polity to establish a permanent standing navy. Within its borders, the Northern Song Dynasty had a population of some 100 million people. Around 1000 years ago it 120 million people. Then the Mongols struck. After Mongol rule, population dropped to 60 million and a Ming Dynasty rose and kept power until 1644. Then the damage started: Qing dinasty by passed the Industrial Revolution and finally fell 1912.