Was ancient China strong? How powerful was ancient China?

strong, 1 Geographical location Ancient China was roughly located at about 23-45 degrees north latitude, which was a monsoon climate, with rain and heat at the same time. At the same time, there are vast plains, which support agricultural development. The proximity to the sea facilitates the development of fishery, salt industry.

The land is vast and abundant, and all the materials related to daily production and life can basically be found. During the development of ancient Chinese civilization, the Americas basically belonged to primitive societies and were not considered. Let's talk about Europe, Europe is close to the sea, most of it has a temperate maritime climate, and it is warm and humid all year round.

There are relatively few plains in the belt. Not very suitable for agricultural development.

2 Cultural reasons Since the hundred schools of thought contended, China has experienced the reform of a group of great Confucians such as Dong Zhongshu, and finally determined the Chinese culture with Confucianism as the core, and greatly absorbed the ideas of Buddhism and Taoism. It has created a relatively stable cultural atmosphere for the prosperity of ancient China. Europe, on the other hand, is a conflict zone of various religions.

In particular, the reign of the Holy See plunged Europe into the dark age of the Middle Ages, when ideology and culture stagnated, and people's understanding of the world stayed on the basis of God's creation of all things, and they were unwilling and did not dare to speculate and verify some natural phenomena.

3 External Causes In ancient China, the Han nationality was basically the mainstay, and there were few ethnic contradictions. Ongoing wars have largely broken out in the northern deserts and the Pearl River system, which are economically underdeveloped. Although there were large-scale peasant uprisings and wars in China during the change of dynasty, this was extremely short-lived, and even during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, wars were not fought every day.

In this way, there will be a stable environment for development at home and abroad.

4 Other aspects China has had research on traditional Chinese medicine since ancient times, which makes the life expectancy of Chinese names longer than other countries. And the society is basically stable, and the number of names is large. There is strength in numbers, and this is one of the reasons.

On the other hand, without the restrictions of the church, natural science and technology are developing rapidly (relative to Europe), and China is leading the world in science and technology (scientific and technological power). China gradually moved into a feudal society after the reform of the law at the end of the Warring States period, and Europe was still basically a slave society at this time. In this way, China's economy is ahead of the rest of the world.

As mentioned earlier, China is basically dominated by the Han nationality, and there are fewer contradictions among the famous ethnic groups, so it is relatively united. The leading economic power and scientific and technological power determined that ancient China was very powerful.

China is relative to the other three ancient civilizations.

The Chinese civilization is the oldest and uninterrupted civilization in the world. Ancient Egypt arose in 3500 BC and fell to the Persian invasion in the 6th century BC. Ancient Babylon arose in 3500 BC and fell in the 16th century BC.

Ancient India arose in 2500 BC and was destroyed by the Aryan invasion. Only China has continued since the establishment of the Xia Dynasty in 2070 BC, which can also reflect the strength of China.

Strong, but from the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it gradually began to show a trend of backward world trends.

Han Dynasty: During the Han Dynasty, it accounted for 26% of the world's wealth. And at that time the Roman Empire dominated the East and West and was the economic center of the East of the world.

Tang Dynasty: The highest peak of ancient Chinese feudal history, accounting for 58% of world GDP.

Ming Dynasty: 55% of the world's GDP during the Wanli period. The average GDP of the Ming Dynasty as a whole was 45%.

Qing Dynasty: It accounts for between 35% and 10% of the world's GDP.

Tang Dynasty: It was the largest and only unified Central Plains dynasty that did not build the Great Wall.

The Tang Dynasty was outside the borders of modern China in both the west and the north. After the Tang Dynasty conquered the Eastern Turks and Xue Yantuo, the Son of Heaven was revered as the Heavenly Khan by the Siyi tribes, and used the system of fetters to recruit the Turkic, Uighur, Tiele, Khitan, Murwei and other ethnic groups to attack the enemy countries, and let the vassal states such as Nanzhao, Silla, Bohai and Japan learn their own culture and political system.

The Tang Dynasty has diversified characteristics of science and technology, culture, economy and art, and a large number of famous artists have emerged in poetry, calligraphy and painting, such as the poet immortal Li Bai, the poet saint Du Fu, the Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan of Yan muscles and willow bones, the painting saint Wu Daozi, Li Sixun, and the first family Li Guinian.

The culture of the Tang Dynasty was inclusive, and it accepted ethnic groups from all over the world to exchange and learn, forming an open international culture.