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To: TobagoJack who wrote (105281)	3/29/2014 7:39:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 219657

In the video, they puzzled over why China did not go on to rule the millennium but in fact the free world did, though it was not very free at all back then and possibly less free than Chinese for all I know as barbarity ruled Europe. <there is a good-enough video re what once china had an opportunity to do but failed call of duty farfuturehorizons.blogspot.hk my assumption is that the current episode of outward-bound would be sustained until and beyond where no man has gone before ... etc etc> It wasn't mismanagement or an accident of human affairs. It was the onset of The Little Ice Age which put the kibosh on the Mongolian/China empire. Then Ivan "the Terrible" was able to roll all the way to the north Atlantic and Russia subsequently went beyond to include Alaska. Presumably the Russians and Europeans in general adapted better and faster to cold. Certainly the Russians did a lot better in cold than did Napoleon and Hitler when they thought it a bonzo idea to take over Russia. It got seriously cold in Europe and no doubt also in China, sufficiently so to make Zheng He's adventures uneconomic. China went into a cold funk. To be pre-eminent, countries need to be in a nice temperate realm of not to cold and not too hot. Too hot = go troppo. Too cold = hide in igloo. Just right = lots of food, lots of breeding, big population, lots of activity without sweat. That's my theory anyway. China had best make hay while the sun shines, because 2020 is approaching. As the world's pre-eminent prognosticator explained back in Oct 2007, the sun-spot peak now arrived would be at about 60 [which it is] and at the next minimum, serious cold would take over. Perhaps not a return to ice age glaciation, but quite likely to Little, or Bigger, Ice Age conditions. When the Little Ice Age arrived, the Turks went swarming across Asia and north, pushing out the Mongol empire and into what is now the Russian realm. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (105281)	3/29/2014 9:58:58 PM
From: bruiser98	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219657

That's a great video. I wonder if the Chinese had sailed east and discovered the Americas riches (especially the gold and silver of the Aztecs and the Incas) before the Europeans did, what would our world look like today.