The World of the Li River: A Neolithic China TL

Very interesting stuff, but I was still quite hoping for a megastructure that would last :p

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Well, the China of this TL will, I think, focus more on stuff that actually matters (read: philosophy, military, etc) than something like the pyramids. As I've said the Central Plain is still going to dominate China, and the Central Plain of the Neolithic has often been called relatively practical compared to the Yangtze cultures.
 
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Well, the China of this TL will, I think, focus more on stuff that actually matters (read: philosophy, military, etc) than something like the pyramids. As I've said the Central Plain is still going to dominate China, and the Central Plain of the Neolithic has often been called relatively practical compared to the Yangtze cultures.

Having that wall be built larger, taller and with bricks may help preserve the "fort" for longer. Practical and immortal, how about that? :D
 
The central plain of china will obviously be the civilization's center.

However, are these areas capable of spawning other civilizations (or significant cultures in general)?

-Manchurian plain
-Valley of Khabarovsk
-Vladivostok bay
-Liaodong

Plenty of places close to china like Korea and Japan developed Chinese-influenced civilizations otl but the areas I referenced didn't. will there be any change in this TL?
 
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The central plain of china will obviously be the civilization's center.

However, are these areas capable of spawning other civilizations (or significant cultures in general)?

-Manchurian plain
-Valley of Khabarovsk
-Vladivostok bay

Plenty of places close to china like Korea and Japan developed Chinese-influenced civilizations otl but the areas I referenced didn't. will there be any change in this TL?

I think the proto-Korean civilisation was originally centred around Liaodong Peninsula but later moved southeast into the peninsula. So that might count actually.
 
It seems that women are influential in the elite Shijiahe priestly caste (which is OTL in China and Korea) - what is the role of women generally during the Terminal Neolithic ITTL and during the transition to the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age?

Also, given what you say about city councils becoming an important organ of government, will the city-state become a recognized concept in parts of China? Will there be a Sumer-like city-state period along one of the rivers during the recovery from the 4.2-kiloyear event?
 
It seems that women are influential in the elite Shijiahe priestly caste (which is OTL in China and Korea) - what is the role of women generally during the Terminal Neolithic ITTL and during the transition to the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age?

Well, Shijiahe already is Chalcolithic both IOTL and ITTL. But that's besides the point. To answer your question, women are more important in the south because of their connection to religion and more marginalized in the north (which is the case OTL with even the Early Yangshao having gender-based stratification), but all societies throughout China ITTL are still patriarchies and that's not going to change.

Also, given what you say about city councils becoming an important organ of government, will the city-state become a recognized concept in parts of China? Will there be a Sumer-like city-state period along one of the rivers during the recovery from the 4.2-kiloyear event?

No, the late second millennium BC will have three large feudal kingdoms (Shang, Chu, and Wu), so no city-states until quite a bit later (around the time we see Central Plain city states IOTL). City-states aren't going to last, but the conception of the city will be quite different from OTL's China.
 
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