What Happened in China in the Eighteenth Century

In mediaeval europe, the catholic church was very discriminatory against merchants and bankers. If you are a merchant family in china, so it is a typical pattern that if you get wealthy enough, then you will start to invest your resources into the education of your offspring. And they would shift their reproduction of the elite status by shifting to a political, belocratic career and become a political family. Did happen in china. It happened in the islamic word. It also happened in south asia. Ind what happened in europe is, as i said, that this a kind of a chronic war situation,. create a abnormal situation in which a state has to rely on the