Secrets of Great Wall 8

How much do you know about the Great Wall in China?

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[bokunada]

no worries, they're coming back

[ricodragon87]

i think t he Chinese would have been the strongest country if not U.S.

[TheTF2replay]

Why didn't ROME BUILD ONE?

WHY???

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[HistoryHmoobGuy]

i hate people these days, whenever they think of roman and persian soldiers - they automaticaly think of the movie "300" where the average guy is 6'0 feet and have the body of a MMA fighter...In reality they were probably just some skinny farm boys from the country side with no battle experience. Thats why the Mongols, who are expert archers and horse riders slaughter the european knights and soldiers so easily

[Cougman1978]

You guys may be got to learn something that mongols islamic that time. That was why they hate world, but they couldn't invade southeast asia because of rich jungles. Arts are in angkor wat, cambodia. It helps you guys to learn some of mongols vs southeast asia. Southeast one of the best defend in jungle not to attack or invade other country. Remember nixon sent bomb cambodia, vietnam and loas to get rid of viet cong. But never won.

[hahaha01357]

@SuperiorHuns I don't deny that Huns were skilled warriors. However, the Hungarians of 907 was much different from the roaming nomads that pillaged the Roman Empire. Aside from that, the "whole of Europe" you were referring to was the Duchy of Bavaria - a part of what is now modern Germany. Taking into account that Europe's population plummeted after the fall of Rome and the fact that medieval armies are hardly ever more than 10,000, you'll see how armies of 100,000 or even 30,000 is improbable.

[hahaha01357]

@SuperiorHuns Rome's failing economy was actually it's biggest problem at the time. With a weak economy and ineffective administrators, Rome was not able to field the type of armies that allowed it to conquer Europe and the Meditteranean. The Huns were only one of several nomadic tribes that took advantage of Rome at the time. Germanic tribes like the Vandals and Visigoths (who didn't have nearly as large an empire as the Hun Confederation) did as much damage if not more to Rome as the Huns.

[hahaha01357]

@SuperiorHuns Actually the Mongols had the largest land empire and the British had the largest overall (land + sea). Rome at the time was divided into 2, the western portion (which the Huns had the most impact on) consisted of what is now France, Spain, Italy, and parts of England and North Africa. (Actually I'm not too sure whether or not Rome had retreated from England by then). Anyways, at the time, Rome basically is Europe and it is failing.

[hahaha01357]

@SuperiorHuns The Dark Ages were a time of economic depression and social depression in Europe. I don't see what slavery has got to do with it at all. Also, even if your assertion that Huns do not use slaves is true (which I find incredible), I'm pretty sure that slaves exist even today. In fact, I'm fairly sure that slavery was a pretty big aspect of some parts of the world even well into the 19th century.

[ElBloodyBones]

@ricodragon87 if they had come has one sooner they could have taken India for their own.

[Traces1000]

fuken mongolian barbarians