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By that token a European knight *is* a shield.
Much heavier than european
Oh tower shields.
Like the Assyrians?
Like the fucking Rhodoks
Japanese just had different distinctions than europeans
Imagine being as advanced in 1500 AD as the Assyrians were in 700 BC.
Actually to be fair the Assyrians were pretty shit hot for the time.
Warfare in Japan was fairly unique, since the only real times they had land invasions to deal with it was kinda mostly just other Japanese.
I mean, when it comes down to the basics,
A shield could really just be any object not made of your flesh used for ensuring you don't get it.
Where are his organs?
where are yours?
Whereas europe and asia were an absolute clusterfuck free-for-all eternally, spreading ideas, tactics, and strategies around from disparate places and cultures.
Japan managed to avoid being conquered mostly by sheer coincidence via storms; Their attempts to conquer other places largely utterly unsuccessful.
Kublai was furious.
Then the madlad tried to invade Indonesia.
Asians just can't seem to empire unless they're Mongolian.
Morning Frens <:comfort:592107824826417204>
Somehow, the culture stemming from the shittiest place to live in the entire region wound up being the big one.
chinese were very insular
and unsuccessful in conquering non chinese
Mongols were the pure conquest people
Mofos didn't bother farming at all
Mongols were the Zerg
Yup
China really just didn't have a reason to go conquering.
Some of their efforts were alright. They subjugated the Tarim Basin.
And they did manage to bring the Xiongnu to heel after a while.
they got their asses beat bymost of their neighbors
But, the Chinese Empires basically were always confined to China as a region.
when attempting to conquer them
such as the vietnamese
The Gokturks fucking thrashed them.