Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Roman Empire VS Chinese Empire" video.

  1.  @kpimkpim349  China was an agricultural land with some isolated pocket of pre-industrialization. That's why it had been so easy for them to "forget" entire branches of technology once they came out of fashion Industrialization in the Roman Empire was much more diffused, with many different and competing cultural and economic centres. Roman Empire's iron and steel output for year had been estimed between 32.000 and 86.000 tons. That of the Han Empire was of 5000 tons. Rome was also the biggest pre-industrial age producer of copper and lead. Roman mining industry had no pre-industrial parallels. Also the imperial Roman Army was composed of professional soldiers, while the Han one was composed almost exclusively of conscripts. Their efficiency was not the same.
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  2. But the quantity of water required is different.
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  3. In the classic latin pronunciation, "c" is always pronounced "hard", like "k", and the two vocals of a diphthong are always pronounced separately.
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  4. A Roman Citizen could only suffer two forms of corporal punishments, being beaten with a birch rod, or beheaded by an axe (that were infact the two components of the Fasces, that were the symbol of the judiciary power). Exceptions were very rarely made for offenses to gods (IE is reported a case were the lover of a Vestal priestess had been skinned).
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  5. I think that the greatest concentration of Roman soldiers had been at Philippi, where a total of 36 legions had been employed, for a total of about 200.000 soldiers, counting the cavalrymen and the auxiliaries. "These arrows have enough power to penetrate Roman Armor?" I'll say no. The draw length is too short to allow them to penetrate any form of armor. They probably relied on volley fire to hit unprotected parts of the body by chance.
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