The Chinese invented gunpowder and cannons.
They were by far the strongest prior to Europeans inventing guns and could have asserted themselves as the superpower on the planet but just didn't.
Why?
Why Didn't Asia Colonize The World?
Nolan Perry
Other urls found in this thread:
precolumbianoceanictravel.weebly.com
twitter.com
Aaron Nelson
thank fucking god we didn't
Bentley Jones
They cant swim. Scared of sailing. Also scared of mongols and vlad the impaler and pretty much everyone. They thought they were the center of the world and felt no need to go explore
Benjamin Johnson
Maybe most Chinese inventions were actually brought in by invaders and then they took credit for it.
Tyler Allen
incredibly low metal output=>relative cost per gun higher=> cost of experimentation with guns higher +bugpeople mentality=> not able to develope the mix of plate armor, thrust heavy warfare doctrine and gunpounder ranged weapons, which togheter with unit cohesion and a political need to expand outwards as europe was always in somewhat of a powerstalemate is what made europeans conquer the worlds.
Leo Sanders
China was colonized.
Isaiah James
They made it as far as the new world but their Emperor was more concerned about keeping power and order at home.
precolumbianoceanictravel.weebly.com
Hunter Jackson
The Chinese were mongrelized.
Tyler Rogers
I have the same question about the useless Ottomans. They're the reason why the Islamic world is no longer a superpower.
Tyler Brooks
The Chinese were enslaved.
Parker Gray
>that's not to say that China ever lost the glory and grandeur that it has had for ages
Now thats a cope. China definitely was powerful, but Japan was raping and pillaging Chinese villlage after village when they colonized them in WW2 after the Japanese copied, top to bottom, European structures such as universities and economic structures following the Meiji Restoration
Jack Parker
The chinese practice of binding the feet of women stopped any hope of establishing colonies in other continents.
Aiden Barnes
Because for almost all of its history China has favored isolationism and internal stability over anything else.
Landon Richardson
Tibetans invented gunpowder and used it as medication, Europeans used it for firing projectiles instead of ingesting it.
Gavin Howard
also China would be like India today had America not intervened by destroying Japanese imperialism
Sebastian Adams
Europe merely retook its place as most advanced civilization in the world
Brandon Hughes
Both were ruled by eunuchs and women of their harems.
Nathan Miller
The Chinese were cannibalized.
Eli Parker
Hudson Thompson
Not true. Chinese invented cannons and bombs. Europeans just invented smaller guns. Still, cannons and bombs would do a lot to Africa which just had like spears and shit
Colton Bennett
Gabriel Turner
Imagine the modern overlegislated society that doesn't let you do shit on your own property.
Now imagine that on top of an inefficient and corrupt to the bone bureaucratic system, clan warfare, crime gangs running all trade and scholasticism ran all of society.
Now imagine all of that staying the same for nearly 2 millennia.
Europe almost ended up the same if not for Catholic monks advancing science and manufacturers arising after the plague ended and the labor shortage necessitated machinery.
Michael Parker
Jesus is the center of the world
hollow earth = Golgotha
Liam Perez
People with those kinds of mass rape fantasies typically have a very poor understanding of demographics
Wyatt Cox
Jesus they'll truly ear anything
Joseph Gomez
Too busy killing their own
>The great delete forward
Lucas Butler
Simple. Asians are weak and stupid, but they consider themself as smart and powerful. Dunning-Kruger on a genetic level. They have been seething to compete with whites but always failing, see the covid debacle caused directly by chink incompetence in the lab and made worse by the chink government cover up because they will never admit they can't compete with the whites in the bioweapon arena.
Jose Thompson
based image save it anons
Matthew Harris
ok? what does that have the due with the glory of china? we're a peaceful people with an ancient heritage.
kek absolutely not
stop talking in memes
Wyatt Hernandez
White supremacy is undeniable, and it's a fairly new baffling trend for nonwhites to see themselves as equals, or even superior to whites.
Brody Clark
VPN CHANG DETECTED !!
Noah Hernandez
because it took a long time to perfect and mass produce them
they were shitty at the start and gunpowder was very hard to make