A long tweet storm about Indo-European charioteers and Early, Early China:

tl;dr - There's either two theories to subscribe to regarding Chinese civilization. Either:

a) it was the only Bronze Age civilization to develop COMPLETELY INDEPENDENTLY from the rest of the world, with all similarities being through coincidence or convoluted transmission.

b) like literally every other major civilization around it, it was founded by a similar stock of Indo-European steppe people that invaded India to its South and Central Asia to its West.

Occam's Razor.

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A long tweet storm about Indo-European charioteers and Early, Early China:

tl;dr - There's either two theories to subscribe to regarding Chinese civilization. Either:

a) it was the only Bronze Age civilization to develop COMPLETELY INDEPENDENTLY from the rest of the world, with all similarities being through coincidence or convoluted transmission.

b) like literally every other major civilization around it, it was founded by a similar stock of Indo-European steppe people that invaded India to its South and Central Asia to its West.

Occam's Razor.