Alright before we get to the good stuff guys, we're going to talk about what we always talk about when we talk about history and that's the impact of geography. Well number one, when you look at a map of China you can see that it's huge, completely big country. But it's also isolated in a sense by all of the geographical features that surround it. Right to the east you're going to be in the Pacific Ocean if you want to go swim with the fishies. And if you go to the north you have the Gobi Desert. And directly next to that desert you have another desert, the Taklamakan Desert. And then if you want to get even groovier you have the Plateau of Tibet which is directly to the west about 14,000 feet that it rises.