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Originally Posted by astralis
so, the question is,
if rome could do all this- why couldn't any of the empires whom faced the mongol hordes do this? japanese lucked out, russians got beat, polish got beat, hungarians got beat, chinese got beat, caliphate got beat, persians got beat...
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As you said, the Japanese lucked out, but if it were not for the typhoon, they probaly would have gotten beat because they weren't very advanced.
The Europeans, and Slavic peoples of the middle ages were not very advanced, there was a lack of unity, and thereby a lack of manpower to terminate the Mongol advance; such was not the case in the Roman Empire.
The Arabs were weakened, and distracted by the crusader states, and were not ready for the Mongol onslaught. Also, the Moslem empire was no longer united, so the same problems I outlined above could also apply here. And the Persians were vastly outnumbered.
China only lost because they taught the Mongols the art of siege warfare for the purpose of defeating their northern neighbor the Jin Empire-a very stupid thing to do-and the Mongols turned on the Chinese.
None of these problems plagued the Romans until the 4th, and 5th centuries.