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  • They had no victories.The Mongols started to lose in Europe 20 years after the great invasion.
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    He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. Luke 22:36

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    • Originally posted by Mihais View Post
      They had no victories.The Mongols started to lose in Europe 20 years after the great invasion.
      That's because the wars they cared about were a hell of a lot closer to home. Europe was what? A bunch of farms and castles? Rice, gold, silk, silver, spices were not in Europe. Technology and technique, the East was decades ahead of the West. To say the Chinese did not adapt is at the very least horse puckey. The Ming evicted the Mongols out of China with canon fire.
      Last edited by Officer of Engineers; 22 Aug 16,, 14:15.
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      • Europe was saved because Europe got nothing of value; NOT BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT SUPERIOR MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES! Because they don't. The Turks had superior engineers!
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        • But we're getting off topic. Neither the knight nor the samurai were the end-all, be-all of the middle ages, the Mongol horseman was. My entire point was to shut down this debate. And before anyone brings up the Ninja, the could do squat all against a charging wall of falling arrows.
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          • Europe was saved because Europe got nothing of value; NOT BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT SUPERIOR MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES! Because they don't. The Turks had superior engineers!
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            • Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View Post
              That's because the wars they cared about were a hell of a lot closer to home. Europe was what? A bunch of farms and castles? Rice, gold, silk, silver, spices were not in Europe. Technology and technique, the East was decades ahead of the West. To say the Chinese did not adapt is at the very least horse puckey. The Ming evicted the Mongols out of China with canon fire.
              Col I still can't figure out the ride it the Ming. How did a gunpowder powered peasant army spring out of no where after 70 years of Mongol occupation? Why couldn't the Mongols adapt?

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              • By that time, the various Khanates couldn't even recognize each other. They were Persian, Arab, or Chinese. Only the Golden Horde remained Mongol. Why would the Persians help a Chinese to reconquer his empire when he got no riches out of it?
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                • Originally posted by Mihais View Post
                  And what sort of troops were those?The troops that conquered Mongolia,China or Khwarzem were 50-70 years old(Subutai was 70 at the time).The troops were equally good .They had the same training and skill and came from the same lifestyle and culture.

                  The leaders afterwards were not Genghis or Subutai,but they also faced tougher opposition.The Europeans adapted,fast.The Chinese did not.
                  They were not the same. The follow on generations however hard, were softer than the men who carved the empire so explosively. They had wealth and urbanization which are not conducive to hardy and callous soldiers.

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                  • I'm not so sure you can dismiss later Mongol generations as being soft - after all they still built one of the largest contiguous border land empires the world has ever seen
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                    • Originally posted by zraver View Post
                      They were not the same. The follow on generations however hard, were softer than the men who carved the empire so explosively. They had wealth and urbanization which are not conducive to hardy and callous soldiers.
                      I'm not sure what you mean by wealth. A foot soldier in both Genghis or Timur's time can't afford to own his own herd of goats. And most certainly, there was no such urbanization with the Golden Horde.
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                      • I'm not sure what you mean by wealth. A foot soldier in both Genghis or Timur's time can't afford to own his own herd of goats. And most certainly, there was no such urbanization with the Golden Horde.
                        To piggy back off that, they continued to war against each other (Qaidu vs. the world) and non-Mongols (Tamerlane, Ghazan, Altan, etc) with all the customary fierceness. Even Babur, who got booted out of Central Asia by the Turko-Mongolian Uzbeks, went south and took Northern India and Afghanistan; relying on the same type of cavalry which his grandson used at Panipat-2.
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                        • Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View Post
                          Europe was saved because Europe got nothing of value; NOT BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT SUPERIOR MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES! Because they don't. The Turks had superior engineers!
                          Europe's estimated GDP had caught up with China by 1200.While these are modern estimates,medieval Europe was not backward or poor.

                          Artillery was first used in Europe at the same time as in China.
                          Thing is by 1265 the Mongols were no longer winning and by 1280 they were losing.
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                          He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. Luke 22:36

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                          • Originally posted by Mihais View Post
                            Artillery was first used in Europe at the same time as in China.
                            I think you'll find that the chinese were using gunpowder artillery 100+ years before europe (General Han Shizhong)
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                            • Originally posted by Mihais View Post
                              Europe's estimated GDP had caught up with China by 1200.
                              Europe as a whole. Not anyone single entity you can collapse with a few battles.

                              Originally posted by Mihais View Post
                              While these are modern estimates,medieval Europe was not backward or poor.
                              They already had Jin China and were eyeing the Middle East trade routes which was vastly much richer than Europe. And Song China was the more pressing military adventure.
                              Last edited by Officer of Engineers; 25 Aug 16,, 12:28.
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                              • Sir,

                                Are you saying the Chinese made a strategic mistake by letting Europe alone, seeing it as poor and underdeveloped (to be a threat or worth the fight)?
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                                To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.

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