When a peasant who lived in Ur said that he was a Babylonian he meant that he was one of millions of other people who paid tribute to the king who at that particular moment happened to be master of western Asia.
THE STORY OF MANKIND by Hendrik Willem Van Loon.
If you replace the Ur by the Yangtze River, Babylonian by Chinese, western Asia by China, the same thing have been happening in China.
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