Rome and China had appreciable differences, but broadly speaking they followed an eerily similar historical outline. Taking advantage of widespread urbanization laid by previous cultures, they grew rapidly from humble beginnings to great empires with a centralized court. The respective empires then halted their expansion, were fragmented by warlordism and foreign invasion, and were swept by non-native transcendent religions. But divergence came in the sixth century when China, unlike Rome, managed to endure as a continuous civilization owing to certain geographic, cultural and external factors...
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