Talk:Block Printing/@comment-87.92.18.17-20150125151232/@comment-67.203.7.201-20170206112744

ok Chinese here, assuming it refers to movable type, It sorta make a little sense because movable block printing only went mainstream after a really long time, basically past the main timeframe of AOK. The reason is simple: Chinese language have too many characters, so its not so advantageous. There are quite a few books printed using movable blocks, just not nearly as many as whole woodblock printing where you make a huge block for each page.

Still, I guess there must be some civilization that use even less movable blocks and have this tech? The things you do for game balance. Oh well.

(Also, these are all quite a long time after Qin. And the way Qin treated knowledge is kinda complex, not a "we hate education burn everything" way. Historical accounts tended to exaggerate it because Qin was quite harsh to Confucians, who later become the main force of scholars anyway. But archeaology shows many more complecated sides.)