Are you a student of DeViries? Because I notice you failed to mention the Cult of Maneki Neko and their influence after the theological crisis that followed the collapse of spiritualist movement around the turn of the 20th century. Helmut Schadelbecker took DeViries to task over this topic in his seminal work Der Fuß und die Schaufel which caused quite a stir at the time, but it was later revealed that DeViries was simply allergic to hard-fired ceramics and was thus unable to enter any of the establishments where he could have learned of the cult’s connection to the production of large mechanized bipedal armored vehicles.
Later Schadelbecker and DeViries would settle their differences and present a paper outlining a unified theory on non-euclidiean transactional beverages, which they presented to the Royal Society in London in the form of a duet-sonnet, apparently clarified the subject greatly, however, all documentation regarding that paper has been lost as both men were overcome by hemorrhagic fever later that night.
I really depends on the map settings so a definite answer is difficult to ascertain, but the most common way is rushing the Cultural victory too hard, too soon without paying enough attention to widening army tech gaps & plummeting diplomacy ratings.
The Yayoi people (which is probably what he meant to say) displaced the then-dominant Jomon people (of whom the Ainu are likely distant descendants) in 300 BC.
Cmon let’s not be so hard on the kid. The answer is:
East Asian civilization is mostly located in East Asia, since it’s easier for the West Asians to commute that way. The countries most responsible for East Asian civilization are Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Burma, Thaland and sometimes Malaysia, when they weren’t under water.
Many great inventions have come from East Asia: they invented gunpowder, earthquakes and tentacle porn, though their crowning achievement is generally regarded to be Jack Lord’s hair in Hawaii Five-O. Despite these wonderful inventions, they were at a disadvantage to the West because they did not invent marketing.
In summary, the outlook is bright for East Asia, as it is slated to become a ride at the Universal Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida, USA, in Fall 2014. You can find out more about East Asia by watching reruns of Hawaii Five-O.
As far as I know – and mind you, I heard this from an ABD in East Asian (focusing on Sino-Tibetan) Linguistics – Korean and Japanese have surface similarities, but deep linguistic analysis reveals that they’re both linguistic isolates. In other words, the Chinese (Sino-Tibetan) Family, Korean Family, and Japanese Family are totally unrelated linguistically (though obviously vocabulary mixes a lot).
Edit: Though it has been proposed that Japanese is either ultimately related to Korean or Altaic, but it’s far from proven.
For better or worse, many of the descriptives we use are Euro-centric… which in some respects is the least of our ethno-geographical sins.
That being said, it’s just a convention of language and besides Japan, Korea and China do lie on the eastern side of the Asian landmass, so unlike e.g. “the Orient” it’s actually a valid, neutral term.
Don’t start reading altogether too much into that sort of thing anyway, down that road madness lies. And count yourself lucky your language isn’t genderized :p.
