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> China was a united entity against the mongol invasion, didn't work out very well, because you take out the center, the rest collapses I am sorry, is this lik
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
> China was a united entity against the mongol invasion, didn't work out very well, because you take out the center, the rest collapses
I am sorry, is this like troll logic?
The entire history of war is large and powerfull empires bullying smaller ones.
This is so silly I am not even sure how you can argue this. Like did USA fight world war 2 as 50 seperate armies, one for every state?
- anonylizard 4y agoI'm not sure what 'entire history of war' you are reading. Did you only read 19th century history or something? If large empires always had an advantage, then you would see endless snowballing, and only end up with mega-empire-blobs, and one-world-government. That is not the case. You have period of imperial blobbing, and also period of intense fracturing. Europe fractured after Rome, because smaller polities were much easier to maintain, with fewer layers of bureaucracy to feed. The small Frank kingdom (that only owned half of France) was able to fend off the great Jihad from the Umayyads that had crushed the Visigothic Spain. Whereas if you took out Rome, or the Chang-An of China, the rest of the empire would be paralyzed and unable to act.