China and The World (9)

After the collapse of the Han Dynasty , the chinese discredited Confucianism and grew a grater acceptance to Buddhism and Daoism. The Chinese then migrated to the south, accompanied by their intensive agriculture and completely transformed the environment, destructed old forests and retreated the elephants that had inhabited the lands. China changed over the centuries and its state evolved, its cultural traditions mixed and blended, its economy expanded and its population grew. From early in the nineteenth century, the north of china which involved many of the semi-agricultural people of steppes. Because they couldn't farm the raised livestock the manufactured wine and silk. The nomads were drawn to China, trading, raiding, and  extorting in order to obtain their goods. The continuing interaction between China and the northerner nomads brought together people occupying different environments, practicing different economies and think about the world differently. Beyond Chinas central role in east asia was its economic interaction between eurasia. China was a recipient as well as donor in the economic interaction of the postclassical era and its own economic achievements owed something to the stimulus of contact with the larger world.