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Instead of forgiving I must appreciate your charitable deed by introducing me this incredible passage which is from the "international collaborative" source you have given me just now... "Western historians debate whether bloomery-based ironworking ever spread to China from the Middle East...

Any sources or evidences to support your statements? It's not that I don't believe at what you say, but it's better that I could directly access to the articles which has more academic authority, and it's more convincing. I didn't read any of your statement regarding the quenched hardened...

Lol, It's funny, I didn't say that Xiong Nu was the Huns, but Huns was the descendents of Xiong Nu. That's a totally different thing, being a descendent of German doesn't mean that he must be 100% Arian blood, he can also has a French mother without being questioned as a German. Besides...

Well done, just keep it on. Sorry if there is any ideas being wrongly conveyed, but actually I just skip the scenario part when I skimmed through the thread...because it's really fine to do. It's just a game scenario, in CIV 4, I can play as Alexander and beat China harshly until their leader...

The 30:40 ratio is my estimation after looked through sources and some bold reference to the number of crossbowmen and bowmen( included the chariot archers) in the terracotta army. Instead of using the ambiguous word such as "majority", "many of them", " large number", I used figures to...

Let's talk about Relativity, I'm not denying that there is a metaphysical truth. But when we tackle the issue of the military strength in the ancient world, it's comparison of two army in term of casualty and successfulness that determine the military strength of that army. For example, we...

Sir Isaac Newton, for his unparalleled genius in classical physics and his contribution to Calculus. Albert Einstein, for his outstanding brain which led to the creation of General Relativity and Special Relativity, and his contribution in developing Quantum Theory which in turn shaped a...

The earliest evidence of Chinese Composite Bow comes from the excavation of Chu bow, which is constituted of bamboo and horn. While the self bows are made by single wood. It showed that composite bow has already been used extensively in Chinese army alongside the ordinary self bow( at least for...

2) COMBAT ODD: Now, let’s put those factors above together and examine the military strength of Chinese and Alexander’s army: Closed Combat odd: Chinese-70%, Alex-30% --Comparing the type of weapons used, the long spears wielded by Greek Phalanx surpass the Chinese shorter...

1.2) Chinese Iron Weapons and Armors: Chinese must has already employed iron weapons and even steel weapons as their conventional weapons if they were to face the army of Alex. Iron had already been widely used in the agricultural sector and was produced industrially during the Spring and...

1) Weaponry First and foremost, let's investigate the weaponry of the factions; there are lists of the most advanced weaponry that could be wielded by the army of both sides: 1.1)Alexander: Iron weapons and armors: It is not impossible that Alex might plunder some of the iron...

I saw the entire arguments in this thread are absolutely based on the presupposition of the posters. Even the title of this thread is already tagged a presumption of "Western neo-colonialism" , why? Because I haven't seen any thread titled "Qin Shi Huang vs Roman Empire", I didn't see "if Attila...

Please, if it is not your age seniority(although I thought you are very very much younger by looking at your posts and your language), I would call on your name a thousand times(omitting the first word). I hope I make myself clear, Mongolian at the time just before being united by Genghis...

Malaysia, well, it's eastern Malaysia for those who concerned. Being a Cantonese Chinese in ethnics, My ancestry traced back to GuangDong广东, China. But I would still consider myself a 99% South-East Asian(another 1% ascribe to the Chinese culture I adhered to). Nonetheless, we...

oo...cool, I guest I will have another non-sleeping days...