Well OK, if we go with that explanation, what happened once these “external forces” began to rule?
Didn’t they, too, winnow through the culture, keeping what looked promising and chucking out the rest?
A philosophy refined by winners is probably going to be bent on winning, correct?
“Well OK, if we go with that explanation, what happened once these external forces began to rule?”
They became Chinese. They were subsumed.
It’s was an inverse way to expand. Very interesting historically.