I don't think I ever knew that the Than reign had been considered foreigners. That is actually pretty interesting. The history of asian lands country borders goes back further than I thought. I definitely want to know more about international history.

When you see some depictions of this in media and fiction, it's usually structured by hereditary elected. So this is a surprise to me that it was more of something to be earned by those who could prove they were best fit for these high society positions. Knowledge truly was the power.

This is the most interesting thing right from the start. To think there were whole spans of land across the world that had less than half of the population Chine did at that time.