“Comparing China with India, what were the factors which led to Chinese politica

The earliest civilizations around the world connected to the biggest Asian countries - India and China . Chinese civilization on the southern bend of the Yellow River began around 4000 BC . It was Neolithic civilization . Ancient Indian civilization flourished around 2 ,500 B .C in the valley of the Indus River . Thus , when European nations were just in their infancy , China and India had developed cultural and political structure . But why China had stronger political unification for much of its history in contrast to that in India where fragmentation was more often the norm

p Ancient China was fragmented to several independent states in the north of China . The Shang and the Chou were the most powerful of those states but they did not control weaker neighboring regions . Around 500 BC there were the chaotic Warring States period , which ended with unification of the whole of north China in a single empire under the rule of Chin dinasty . But after the fall of the next great Chinese dynasty (Han peasant rebellions , foreign invasion , weak rulers and strong regional warlords China was disunited again for hundreds of years until the Tang Dynasty reunified China . After Genghis Khan intrusion in China his grandson Kublai Khan had reunificated China as the first emperor of the Yuan dynasty . After this unification of the state was distinguishing feature of China Empire

The history of Indian State was different from described above . Because of its geographical position India was the desired land for conquerors that moved in from the northwest . These processes began with the conquest of Aryans and culminated in the final unification of the entire country in the seventeenth century under the Mughals

Fragmentation in India was so frequent historic fact because of some political and cultural issues . Hindu religion with its system of castes innumerable episodes of conquests , cultural infusion and assimilation competition of regional feudals dilated unification of the country China has better conditions for unification because of presence of dominated political power and better-developed administrative tools

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World History , by Duiker W .J . and Jackson J .S . Fourth Edition 965 pp ...