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@Salo Saloson @Nemets wasnt the stirrup invented sometime between the Hunnic invasions and the Mongol invasion? I remember hearing stirrups were unknown to Romans and Huns

When I successfully bio-engineer Pteranodons, I'll make sure their skin is teal for peak optics

What's the next book you all will be reading? @CarletonJ

Granted that's an 800 year period

@Reinhard Wolff we are going to start with Generation Identity

For it is short

Nice

It said that it is was created in China @Salo Saloson

I read fiction exclusively.

But it sounds riveting!

>reading

The real project will be starting the debate club and getting our community the tools they need to debate and conquer their opposition

@Trashboat I basically read to you. You best be there boy

@Valaska ayyy

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well the modern stirrup as we know it is kinda hard to trace, since there is evidence for the "modern" saddle to be in Asia before anywhere else... probably
@Logan

but generally the stirrup first appeared widely in Europe ~700 AD

This stirrup talk makes me wonder why the Ancient Chinese were so prolific in their inventions but somehow along the way they just seem to have like, stopped? Is there any explanation for that or no?

@Trashboat They society was functioning to the degree it needed to.

To go along with the Mattis tweet

But their dynasties afterwards weren't really any worse than the ones prior were they?

http://fashthenation.com/2018/05/fash-the-nation-123-the-yellow-peril/

I took Chinese for all 4 years of high school btw and never once thought to ask my teacher about this

China as a society is nearly an ecosystem. Rivers, Rice, Masses of people, routine mass war to reset the process

>chinese
>high school

Occasional barbarian invasion/assimilation, rinse, repeat

u wot m8

@Asatru Artist - MD

The Mongols might have had something to do with ending Chinese innovation, after they wrecked the Middle East that whole region regressed and still hasn't intellectually recovered.

>yfw you change the course of an entire region of the world
the eternal nomad strikes again

我的中文最好，你的英文很不好。

and a squiggly mark to you too

💪 flexin' on them monolingual fools

Alright that was enough for me, it's time for bed after that one

I have a great redpill screen cap on China but I need to edit it for optics...

@Trashboat Well...ching ching bing bong to you too, fellow h'white man.

Could be bullshit, but interesting take on the bowl of mud that is the "eternal" middle kingdom

Very interesting

Off topic: Any chess players? (Although, since chess - or rather, a precursor to it - originated in China 3000 years ago, not totally off topic).