Comments by "Bitcoin Zoomer" (@bitcoinzoomer9994) on "Binkov's Battlegrounds"
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Rome fell long before the Huns. It was divided and mismanaged. Roman culture and Roman values had been diluted by immigrants for centuries, which caused the Romans to lose their warrior culture, and pay others to fight for them. The Romans paid the Huns to fight off Germanic tribes, but as instability took over the western empire, which had been long been separated from the eastern empire, Byzantium, the Huns saw an opportunity, and simply walked into Rome, and no one really did anything about it, because the western empire was already falling apart. The Romans had kept the Germanic and nomadic tribes out of their lands for millennia, the Huns were not special, and having a reunited China defeat them means nothing. The eastern empire survived, because it was not filled with Germanic immigrants, and they mostly kept their homogenic warrior culture. Rome fell, the Huns were a symptom, not a cause.
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@qiushiliang4844 The Rome people usually picture, is Imperial Rome, before it began splitting. If you matched a united Rome against a divided China, of course Rome would win, it's just unfair. So, to be roughly equal, we pit united imperial rome, against united China.
Rome: Superior navy, more production, better metalworking, better food supply and more advanced farming, superior numbers, stronger, taller men, more military experience, better communication and organization, military tactics, personnel training, soldiers had standardized equipment that they did not have to pay for, far better pay, colonization experience, better trade routes and more diverse economy, less autonomous government, and a hierarchy based more on merit than birth, more mobile army, superior horse breeds, better climate conditioning, siege, occupation, urban, mountain, and rural tactics and experience, knowledge of guerilla warfare, raiding and terrorism, chariot army and tactics, as well as better archers.
China has more people, which needs more food, and often starves, along with a nobility that will split off and try to gain control of their country.
The real issue is that you think China has ever been more powerful than anyone else. China has been plundered, raped, and exploited by everyone you can think of for all of history.
China always loses.
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