VIRGIN EURO HISTORY:>king jewie the billionth disagreed with pope kiddiefucker the tenth on whether jesus was transgod or cisgod>gorillions died, gorillions blacks enslavedCHAD CHINESE HISTORY:>THE VILLAIN DONG DONG KIDNAPS EMPEROR HAN KEK DI AND BULLIES THE REALM>IMPERIAL UNCLE FU KEYU (60 YEARS OLD) MARRIES THE PRINCE OF PU, XI'S YOUNGER SISTER (17 YEARS OLD) AND FORMS THE FUK-PU ALLIANCE IN ORDER TO OVERTHROW THE VILLAIN DONG DONG>DONG DONG INVADES PU XI'S TERRITORY BUT MOST OF HIS ARMY HIS DESTROYED IN THE BATTLE OF NING'ER>DONG DONG DIES, HIS SON DONG LONG USURPS THE HAN AND DECLARES HIMSELF EMPEROR OF DONG>PU XI ACCIDENTALLY KILLS FU KEYU'S BROTHER, FU KEMI>FU KEYU DECLARES HIMSELF EMPEROR AND VOWS TO DESTROY PU XI AND AVENGE HIS BROTHER>ALL MILLION OF HIS TROOPS DIE IN THE BATTLE OF AO QI, FU KEYU DIES SHORTLY AFTER>PU XI DECLARES HIMSELF EMPEROR, DIES SHORTLY AFTER>DONG LONG'S VASSAL, NIGE JIU, USURPS DONG LONG'S THRONE AND BECOMES THE NEW EMPEROR AND UNIFIES THE REALMwhy is chinese history so based and multifaceted?
>>16552404Their soldiers are not all that cool lookingJust look at Total War Three Kingdoms
>>16552454This. Who can actually name an aesthetic chinese military unit? It was just a swarm of locusts.
>>16552454>Their soldiers are not all that cool looking.>This. Who can actually name an aesthetic chinese military unit?Retards.
>>16552500>these are the elite han soldiersLMAO
>>16552502Yes, idiot, these are them.
>>16552500Mfers look like the wright brothers: netflix edition.
>>16552506>chinkcel has to post south african video game fantasy aesthetics to seem less lameLMAO
>>16552537Fuck off.This army was aesthetic.You are just a retard.
>>16552550Opulent...
>>16552404The post itself isn't funny, bit imagining the lil Chinese kid laughing uncontrollably under his breath in the college library while typing up this post instead of doing his hw is a very funny mental image an made me laugh.
>>16552568These guys kick your ass metaphorically in terms of chadness.
>>16552500>>16552550>>16552574>soildersMinor spelling mistake.The West wins.
>>16552581Try it.You will be killed.
>>16552570kek
>>16552581>Latinx EmpireLost to a half blind Nubian woman
Best thread up today.
>>16552583The chink really thought that was a win, lmao.They look so ugly.
>>16552454>>16552460Their heavy cavalry units were pretty aesthetic in pretty much every single dynasty. Infantry on the other hand was kinda a mixed bag depending on era.
>>16552814Is there a name for this type of armor?
I really love the ming style brigandine. I have always been a fan of the "manica" style arms.
I personally don't find their history to be very interesting, but I do like learning about some of the cool technologies they developed for agriculture and then never saw it spread or develop further, like those small grain windmills made of wood. You could technically have your local carpenter put one together.Some of their clothing and architecture is very pretty, and its cool to see that despite using very similar methods to Europe and the Middle East, it still looks very distinct.
>>16553763dendra panoply?
>>16555375I just love that they had natural gas pipelines to power salt factories since 200BC but somehow didnt indistrialize.
>>16553763Why do euros always make bug armor
>>16555386The Chinese are weird man. They genuinely had a lot going for them and tons of really cool technologies that would have made agricultural work fucking easy but it just never spread or never improved. I know some of their cultural mindset is "its good enough, it'll do" but still.>>16555402Mail was pretty much the most common armor in Europe lol.
>>16552500>blocks your path with chariot>speaks unpronounceable language>enslaves you, forces you to build palace, and sacrifices you in a creative and painful way >the creative and painful way you are sacrificed in is determined by how a bone cracks in the firenuthin personnel, kid
Their armor aesthetics were pretty kino.
>>16555444Old Chinese had no tones and so was easier to pronounce (and likely much better sounding) than modern Chinese.
>>16555453Those armor designs was stolen from Tocharians
>>16555513Could you explain more about the tocharians? I have heard about them before but frankly I am not well versed on their histories.
>>16555513That looks like shit though
>>16555586This is how chink armor look like before they came into contact with Tocharians
>>16555603If they had shoulder armor before the tocharians then why didnt the tocharians ever figure it out? No wonder they went extinct.
>>16555603When did they come into contact with tocharians? As I understand they were quite western. Picrel is qin armor but basically representative of warring states iron armor. The cord and plaque seems to have appeared in china around the northern-southern dynasties period ~6th century ish. Your armor I think is the leather armor from the warring states.
>>16552404What decree did OP pic graduate with?
>>16555647Degree.
>>16555603Here is another pic of that tocharian armor btw. Yes, it looks like shit and seemed to be worn with no arm or leg protection whatsoever
>>16555603>>16555635>>16555654That's pre-Qin armor which is hundreds of years removed and no they didn't take any design elements from them. Most Chinese armor post Jin dynasty were largely influenced by Xianbei / Proto Turkic - Mongol tribes that occupied Northern China at the time. Some Central Asian elements were included like mirror/disk armor but for the vast majority of their history it's been indigenous lamellar designs with some foreign elements sprinkled here and there (Mongol helmets, Bifu/Manica etc).
>>16556528>>16553763Iron Pagoda during the Song/Jin period. There's several variations of it but the base design is largely the same. And again these were mostly developed and evolved from previous lamellar designs.
>>16556597Another variation of the Iron Pagoda
>>16556528I didnt mean to imply they took the designs from tocharians I was simply asking when/if they ever contacted them. I see tocharians being brought up quite frequently. Chinese armor was quite a sophisticated tradition way before the 5th century which was my implication. I do know steppe peoples were quite an influence and i believe there is some contention as to whether the southern dian kingdom were influenced by steppe peoples. Also I do onow of the iron pagoda it is one of my favorite armors along with ming brigandine.
>>16556597nigga lookin like an armored nipple
>>16555635>cord and plaqueHard to say whether it was even used in combat, no samples survive and artwork/sculptures are always funerary tomb guardians or religious in nature.>>16556528The Eurasian steppe has always been the prime mover of technology, Chinese armaments development was naturally an eastern extension of such phenomenon.
>>16556813There are striking similarities between Dian and Saka/Kushan armors however they would have had to pass through a Chinese intermediary such as >>16555603Additionally, Dian helmets resemble ridged Shang helmets.
>>16557487I know the steppes are likely one of the reasons bronze technology was proliferated in china but the north south divide was definitely very evident. The south seemed to have quite a developed metal culture even before han domination. I would not overgeneralize and say they were the prime movers of innovation as many of the notable innovations of the chinese had to do with their civil administration and resource extraction/ agricultural technology which was pretty comparatively absent in the steppes.
