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I mean cultures like Shijiahe, Liangzhu, Sanxingdui. They had achieved a significant degree of sophistication and urbanization by the end of the Neolithic; after all, the city of Shijiahe was actually (probably) more populous than Erlitou in Henan. But the south never made the development that occurred in northern China with the emergence of truly developed states such as the Shang, and as we all know the center of China became the north. What if it was different, so the Yangtze and the Yellow had remained multiple parallel centers of mutually interacting civilizations, as it was during the late Neolithic? How would world history be changed?
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