The Evolution of Chinese Armor 1: Shang to Qin Dynasty

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Horse armors covering from neck to body were also excavated in the First Emperor's tomb, along with the last armor seen in this video; therefore, heavy armored cavalry covered with iron plates existed during the Qin period.


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http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/index.php?/topic/4776-concepts-for-zhan-guo-...

http://www.360doc.com/content/09/0803/14/2580_4638916.shtml

http://hfsword.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=18167

http://wiudwing.blogspot.com/2008/09/china-ancient-war.html

http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/index.php?/topic/27652-pictures-of-ancient-c...

http://www.360doc.com/content/09/0802/22/134777_4627277.shtml

http://steppes.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=board21&action=print&thr...

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[Floodlezoot]

excellent work. it's good to know people like you are out there firewater, doing this kind of research and making it easily accessible. You are furthering the research of others, and their understanding of history. Connecting the dots. thanks.

[firearthwater]

@Floodlezoot thank you for the support :)

[Intranetusa]

I believe the last part from 9:45 until the end are all Han era armor and not Qin era armor? It was only in the Han era before steel and iron became mass produced for use as armor.

[Intranetusa]

@Intranetusa

But the vast majority were leather, and to a lesser extent bronze. I'm sure iron/steel were used but they were rare and most likely reserved for the elite.

However, the pictures I'm referring to have been specifically refereed to as Han-era equipment on various websites.

[firearthwater]

@Intranetusa the armor @3:30 is made of iron also, but only the rich elites can wear that at that period...and i think the Qin one is made of iron instead of steel, steel was perfected in Han dynasty...but one other point is that Qin army usually perfer lightning wars, so they like to move fast, heavy armors would just weigh them down. leather armor is very effective against arrows too, its pretty tough, most people underestimate its abilities.

[firearthwater]

@Intranetusa that armor was excavated in the first emperor's tomb along with the terracotta army

[Aetius114]

I found this video very informative. Thank you for posting it!

[Darkiver]

Thank god for this, I'm tired of reading about these old dynasties without a proper visual idea of what changed as time went on.

[CescoPisicoli]

amazing vid ty so much!

[StarSpawn06]

@jobjed

in a sense Alexander's army was overrated.

they lost courage after fighting against a little Indian kingdom which was only a tiny fraction of the strength of the ruling Indian dynasty at that time.

After he died, his "empire" broke up.

Military prowess aside, he did not deserve the title "Great" because he did more harm than good to human civilisation.

[MR6TUBE]

thx q very much for this vid~~ it let me understand alot :)

[jobjed]

the waring states could have easily defeated alexander the great's army. the qin and zhao armies equalled 950000 men, close to a million. this is already MANY times the number of alexander's army plus the other 5 state's armies have not been included yet.

[Intranetusa]

@stdrdm

Yes it is, which is why the late Western Han and the Eastern Han mass equipped their troops with iron equipment.