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Originally Posted by Merovee
If Rome continuing their model of expansion and following the road of Alexander leading them closer to the Han would have attacked, they might have been able to conquer and become the nobility, but as all invaders of the Han in the past have learned, the Han are a people who have never been conquered in the sense that the conquerers, if they plan on staying, are always and eventually absorbed into the Han. They would have became the Han, down to speaking their tongue as their native tongue.
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The same may be said of any one of the hundreds of modern nation states. All have been
unconquered, as per your wishy-washy definition. Yet all have been
conquered one time or another as the conventional sense of the word is understood. The present-day existence of all those nations is only proof to the fact that they have not been annihilated by their conquerors, not that they were unconquered.