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I'd say the Mongols and Aztecs were more advanced after their conquests than before. Expecting the radio or flight to have been invented just because there wer
by nkozyra 11y ago
I'd say the Mongols and Aztecs were more advanced after their conquests than before. Expecting the radio or flight to have been invented just because there were many centuries of conflict belies the incremental nature of innovation.
And WWI certainly drove innovation; I think this always manifests most in military facets, obviously and tends to cascade into commercial sectors more slowly. Not much time separated WWI and WWII and a great deal of it was mired in the largest modern economic depression.
I don't support any of this, but it's literally competing with a gun to your head.
- gbog 11y ago> Mongols more advanced after their conquests than before Maybe, but the point is that Mongols, for some reason (maybe geography and weather?), did never stop being fighters. They never "settled down" to grow wealth, which is a very long process with many parameters (cities, knowledge stores, trustable and transmissible commercial bonds, etc.) So they are very good warriors, and have been very successful in their conquest, but compared to their Chinese neighbours (which are not the prototype of the aggressive people, to understate it a bit), they are just much smaller, and grew much less wealth.
- mcv 11y agoThe Mongols were definitely more advanced after their conquests, but so was everybody else, simply because technology progresses. They did acquire technologies from the countries they conquered, but I don't think they were ever significantly ahead of all their neighbours, other than in their excellent organization, strategy and way of life that allowed them to do this in the first place.