Why is Europe divided into dozens of countries even though it is a plain, while China is still one country with its mountainous nature?

Why is Europe divided into dozens of countries even though it is a plain, while China is still a complete country with many mountains and plateaus?

At that time, I remember seeing such a picture, which probably meant that China didn't look like a country in any way from the topography, which led to the idea of the title

The truth hurts: no one thinks that in the whole world, division is the norm, and unity is not normal.

India has always been a geographical concept, and although it is now unified on the surface, it is also divided internally.

In the Middle East, there were brief Arab empires, and more often than not, they were torn apart.

Africa, not to mention, was previously a tribal system, fragmented from beginning to end.

Russia and Canada have a large territory on the surface, but most of the territory is a deserted place, and if they want to split, there is no one!

There is only one United States, but the United States is a bit like China's previous feudal system, there are many feudal states under the Western Zhou Dynasty, the laws are not uniform, and the president is only a formal leader. It is also like the division of feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty. Lack of absolute control over all levels.

With a level of unification like China's, almost all of the power comes from appointments from above.

It's a miracle to be able to maintain such a large number of people without falling apart, right?

I think there is a core factor that is the asymmetry of absolute strength.

Since ancient times, the Central Plains Dynasty in the north only needs to solve Shandong, Henan, Hebei, northern Anhui, and northern Jiangsu, which basically have the pattern of fighting the Xiongnu in the north and unifying in the south.

And the core is in northern Anhui, northern Jiangsu, Henan, this piece.

Anonymous users: Three reasons:

1, Qin Dynasty.

The Qin Dynasty achieved physical unification, unified writing, weights and measures, although the Qin Dynasty was only 15 years, but the Han Dynasty inherited and carried forward the Qin Dynasty, preserved the fruits of the Qin Dynasty, lasted for 400 years, since then, the people's hearts are one, in fact, it is also the interests of the people, people can see that the unified dynasty is beneficial to themselves, although there are problems, but it is better than war, so psychologically the unification will be regarded as the norm, steady state.

2. Textual logic.

The ideogram of Chinese characters does not express sound, the word "horse" is drawn according to the shape of a horse, you read it as anything is a meaning, so Chinese characters have the ability to travel through time and space, I don't care what you read, I don't care if I can understand it or not, you write it out like this, express it like this, then we are a kind of people.

The Han people are the largest ethnic group in the world, and the amazing thing is that the Han people do not have any branches, which is unimaginable in other ethnic groups, and the language absolutely contributes to it. If Wenzhou people use pronunciation to write, then you can't understand what he says, you can't understand what he says, do you still think you are the same kind of person as him?

There is a voice that says Cantonese is a language, not a dialect, and many people argue about it. In fact, this matter is very simple, that is, because there are many overseas Cantonese people, Cantonese has a strong ability to spread, and it is heard by foreigners, and it is found that it is impossible to communicate with Mandarin, according to the standards of Western languages, the inability to communicate is a different language, and it is different if it cannot communicate, but the logic of Chinese is not so, otherwise Wenzhou dialect and Shanxi dialect are a separate language. Don't raise the bar and say that Cantonese has special characters, those things were only invented in the 70s, and they are not formal, where is there an official document to write it as Yijia now?

3. County system.

According to our current perception, isn't the county system a matter of course? What's so magical about it? It's magical, and it already makes you feel that it's right. Go and see how long the sub-seal system has been in use.

What was the precedent of the county system? What does the feudal system mean? It means that the fiefdom chief will not accept the transfer, his children and grandchildren can inherit it, and the power of their family can be passed on in one place for hundreds of years, taking root, and the results can be imagined. It can be seen from the Spring and Autumn Period that the Jin State itself is a prince, and it is divided into three by the princes within itself. The Hedong Taishou of the Tang Dynasty may become the Changsha Taishou after a period of time, and the son cannot inherit it, how do you develop the separatist forces?

In the early days of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Bang was forced by the power of the founding heroes to be too great, and the counties and feudal divisions were parallel, and the centralization of power was seriously impacted.

The Western Jin Dynasty reversed history and sealed dozens of princes and kings, but everyone saw it.

Many Chinese don't know what the difference between king and emperor is in English, in fact, they just don't realize the difference between China and the West. Europe is severely divided, and only those kings of separatist forces, similar to our King of Qi and Chu, they are kings, and occasionally powerful empires appear, merging small countries led by several kings, and only then are they called emperors. Our Qin Emperor Han Wu and the like, are all emporer, those big dynasties, put in Europe are called empires, and the small princes in the empire are called kingdoms, and these princes are always controlled by families who can inherit.

The Kingdom of Belgium we see now is equivalent to the Zhongshan Kingdom of China, and the Duchy of Liechtenstein that we see now is a prince of a lower rank than the kingdom. The prince of the emperor is a man.

We often see all kinds of princes in European fairy tales, what are those princes? Let me ask you a question: When Li Yuan was emperor, were Li Shimin and Li Yuanji princes? No, they were princes, and not only were they not princes, but they were also kings themselves, the kings of Qin and the kings of Qi.

Most people pay attention to the first of the above three articles, in fact, if you take a closer look at Europe, you will find that the second and third articles seem not obvious, but in fact they have played a decisive role in history. In other words, some people don't even know much about Chinese history, and they don't even think about who fought with whom, whose chassis is big, and how the county system works in China.

Ideal and painful: because the Han people are too capable of fighting...

The Han people you think are vegetarian, cold, short, weak, believe in Confucianism, useless, and fight insiders and outsiders

The de facto Han 。。。。。。 The other 55 ethnic groups were classified as minorities

Five, the two-legged sheep of the chaotic flowers

As a result, after killing the anger, he slaughtered those Hu people

Do you really think that the Han people don't eat people?

Is there a lack of cannibalistic plots in Water Margin?

It's just that Confucianism is too strong, and it has suppressed the bloody nature of the Han people

Once the reins are released, pick up the cold weapon

There is no royal court in Mobei

Tibetans become compatriots

You don't think that ethnic minorities are inherently underpopulated, do you?

Boundary......

Suddenly there are a lot of people watching, so I will change it again.

In fact, it is not about branding 55 ethnic groups as ethnic minorities

Instead, hundreds of ethnic groups that have appeared in history have either been exterminated or accommodated, and in the end only 55 ethnic minorities remain

The Turkish Otmans Empire, spanning Asia, Europe and Africa, defeated Byzantium in its glory days, and it was the Eastern Roman Empire.

Rome knows, right?

In its glory days, the Mediterranean Sea became an inland sea.

Smack, killed, a Turkic detachment from Central Asia

It was the Turk who was killed by Li Shimin and recognized him as the Heavenly Khan

of one

Of course, now everyone is a brother, and it is incumbent on us to maintain national league building, except for one or two small actions, everyone can live in harmony with Lele

The Han people have been a peace-loving nation since ancient times, and if they don't like to fight, they just don't like to fight, but there are too many Hu people, and they always want to prostitute themselves if they don't develop production, so they have no choice but to defend themselves and fight back.

Who has nothing to do to go to the desert to fight, there is no way to rule, there is no property, the environment is poor, and the emperor has to prevent rebellion after two years。。。。。。

The Han people can only fight, but the Han people are still peace-loving.

Yes, exactly.

Hello everyone, one more part

Some people say that we are the chosen start, but not exactly

Over the course of a long history, due to cyclical changes in the global climate (much of the current global warming is due to natural causes), the northern mid- and high-latitude regions have become suitable for farming due to rising temperatures and increased rainfall

For example, the Hetao area in the south of the Yangtze River

There is also the Tohoku region, which is now bitterly cold, and with global warming, it will gradually become more suitable for farming

Even if this continues, Greenland can grow crops

Other words

The cultivation line is also moving northward

At this time, natural disasters are common in the middle and low latitudes, either major droughts or floods (just as there are more extreme weather now)

This will lead to the weakening of geographical advantages and the exchange of advantages

So the beginning of the Heavenly Election is fake, at most it has a bit of a big river advantage, but you don't know that the Yellow River floods every year...

But... That's useless, give them a chance but they don't use it

Or the Han people are too capable of fighting...

People can fight, and so can culture

ps: Everyone discussed rationally, many people's comments were deleted by the housekeeper, and when I saw it, only traces of comments were left, but the content was gone...