I just read a bit about the time of the sixteen kingdoms in china. How could this period of history have lastet much longer? would north and south china develope apart and become different nations? and what other effects could you think of?

The other effects of China disintegration lasting longer:I just read a bit about the time of the sixteen kingdoms in china. How could this period of history have lastet much longer? would north and south china develope apart and become different nations? and what other effects could you think of?
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The other effects of China disintegration lasting longer:
- more sufferings and devastation of China by the steppe's nomads.
That was the curse of China. Even the centralized Chinese Empire had some troubles sometimes to oppose the nomad aggression. The 'sixteen Chinese kingdoms' did not have a chance in a long run.
If some 'kingdom' was founded by the nomads it doesn't necessarily make it a pure 'nomadic kingdom'. In some time this kingdom becomes more 'civilised', more Chinese and less nomadic.Actually, if we're talking about the 16 Kingdoms, in Northern China, only, then it probably couldn't get worse because most of the nomads interested in China were already invading it. And the 16 Kingdoms were founded by nomads, so I'm not sure what you're getting at.
We could have more nomadic invasions reaching the south, but that would not be a 16 Kingdoms period.
If some 'kingdom' was founded by the nomads it doesn't necessarily make it a pure 'nomadic kingdom'. In some time this kingdom becomes more 'civilised', more Chinese and less nomadic.
And than it starts all over again - stronger and wilder nomads come in and devastates it again and probably found a new Nomadic kingdom on the Chinese soil.
So that's a vicious circle.
If some 'kingdom' was founded by the nomads it doesn't necessarily make it a pure 'nomadic kingdom'. In some time this kingdom becomes more 'civilised', more Chinese and less nomadic.
And than it starts all over again - stronger and wilder nomads come in and devastates it again and probably found a new Nomadic kingdom on the Chinese soil.
So that's a vicious circle.