Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "Premodernist" channel.

  1. Compared to China or Japan, Europe was pretty backwards when it came to military doctrine... compare 100 years war with Feudal Japanese squabbles. European civilizations were really simplistic compared to Asia and Middle East until early modern era and Industrial revolution.
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  2. Some local Japanese warlords having a minor fight over a salt mine would have bigger armies than entire England or France combined, Europe was always tiny and no, it didn't move towards large states when rest were tribal, not when you compare Ming dynasty China or Ottoman empire with, say, Netherlands... and Italy was still city states like Maya or Greeks until very recently. I would say rather, Europe being so tiny and not very rich in resources forced Europeans to look elsewhere... kinda same way that vikings colonized more-Southern Europeans earlier.
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  3. Horses aren't a "technology", they're animals which literally didn't exist in America much like emus don't exist in Europe. ​ @Shrouded_reaper  17th century Japan literally took Euro ship cannons and put them on static positions because wheels WERE often useless in the mountainous terrain. In fact, in Mediterranean, before cars became a thing, and outside carriages on city or big trade roads, wheels weren't of much use either. Chariots were very quickly replaced with just using horses on their own. If wheels were so good why the hell there's almost two thousand year gap between actually regularly using wheeled transport in war? And even then it would horse-drawn wheeled stuff, something impossible in countries where horses weren't a thing. As to gunpowder it was a Chinese invention and again, not Euro thing. They were just less isolated than Americas purely because of geographical reasons.
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  4. ​ @NathanHenriquefa that's actually a myth. There is a documented case of trying to use blankets as biological weapon and with same natives... not actually getting infected. In fact said Europeans did the same mistake early corona pandemic tips did: focusing too much on washing hands and skin contact when most disease was respiratory. They didn't sneeze as a bioweapon on purpose, you can see how easy it is for epidemics to spread without trying, see Spanish flu for another example, and the plague in Europe. Trust me if Western Europeans were invaded during Black Death period they'd also be colonized, hell, Europe actually was, by Romans and Greeks, it just managed to rebuild after the fall of Rome... Incas never got the chance since Spain keeps existing.
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  5. There's a very simple explanation: slavery was outlawed among Christians, while legally allowed towards pagans. There's where etymology of the word "slave" likely comes from, when Westerners weren't allowed to enslave each other no more, they raided then still pagan nations like Lithuanians or various Slavic principalities... then those also converted to Christianity and they had to look elsewhere for slavery. Enslaving non-Christians was less taboo, especially away from Europe. So, when British made slavery illegal back home, slavers moved towards trans-Atlantic slave trade...
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