[Red Badger]

I vaguely remember a Chinese dignitary a few years back speaking to some , I believe, Western Euroweenies, as saying something like, " When your ancestors were still living in caves here, mine were building empires." This article seems to back him up........Any one else remember this?.........

[muir_redwoods]

"I vaguely remember a Chinese dignitary a few years back speaking to some , I believe, Western Euroweenies, as saying something like, " When your ancestors were still living in caves here, mine were building empires." This article seems to back him up........Any one else remember this?"

I don't recall that event but I do recall Chou En Lai being counseled by Anwar Sadat to be patient with the economic growth in China because, after all, China was a young country, relatively speaking of course.

[blam]

"I vaguely remember a Chinese dignitary a few years back speaking to some , I believe, Western Euroweenies, as saying something like, " When your ancestors were still living in caves here, mine were building empires." This article seems to back him up........Any one else remember this?........."

That's to bad.

Some believe the Zhou were a Caucasian people...at a minimum, they were a mixed race people.

[Fedora]

I vaguely remember a Chinese dignitary a few years back speaking to some , I believe, Western Euroweenies, as saying something like, " When your ancestors were still living in caves here, mine were building empires." This article seems to back him up.......Any one else remember this?.........

I don't remember the Chinese dignitary's comment. But the article discusses finds dated primarily to 1046-771 BC, with some side discussion of events back to 4000 BC. Europeans were not still living in caves during these periods. By 1046 major civilizations had already risen and fallen in Greece. Even by 4000 there were megalith-building cultures throughout Europe.

[Walkingfeather]

I would have said... yeah means alot coming from a society where one of those empire builders Burned all know history texts, and then had new historys written with the emporer being responsible for everything.