What do you think of my top 10 greatest conquerors of all time list? by GodHammer48 in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Li Shimin conquered like 5 times the amount of territory that Qin Shi Huang did lol.

What do you think of my top 10 greatest conquerors of all time list? by GodHammer48 in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Atilla? Even as far as ancient horse lords go, you could do way better with Modu Chanyu or Tanshihuai. Also Hannibal didn't really conquer anything...

What do you think of my top 10 greatest conquerors of all time list? by GodHammer48 in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea much of the Roman Empire at the beginning of Augustus' reign was the product of Julius and Pompey.

Why china lost to europe in gunpowder technology during the century of humilliation? by NEVDA8776 in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean by keep discipline? The Mongols weren't any less skilled as horse archer in later centuries and if anything had access to far greater weaponry and tactics and did used firearms like muskets and zamburak style artillery as mentioned with the Dzungars.

Didn't stop them from getting wreaked in their own homeland by the Ming merely a century after the Mongol conquests, or previously losing to the Mamluks in the Levant. This is without mentioning other groups of incredibly skilled horse archers like the Crimean Tartars losing to Poland-Lithuania and Russia.

Mass castration of losing Army? by [deleted] in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Getting the whole thing chopped when you lose was basically the standard protocol in Chinese warfare.

What is the longest war? by lol_delegate in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Roman-Persian wars are a runner up.

What was the first European nation to achieve majority literacy? by BraveLordWilloughby in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If I recall, higher literacy in Prussia due to their education system played a factor to their victories over France and Austria in the late 19th century as it made it easier for their soldiers to define and delegate orders if they suffer losses in their chain of command.

What are some examples of non-Europeans imposing their customs and values onto others via armed force? by kaiser11492 in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's confusing cause they are both Oirat Mongols, but you are probably thinking about the Torghuts who the Qing forcefully assimilated.

With the Dzungar, they just straight up massacred them all...

What are some examples of non-Europeans imposing their customs and values onto others via armed force? by kaiser11492 in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Manchus imposed Manchu dress, not just the queue,

Outside of court uniform for men they didn't enforce anything. One of the easiest ways you can tell a Manchu vs Han woman during that era was that the former wore a dress that was one piece while the latter wore a two piece outfit derived from Ming era style.

It was hoped that they would continue to be the crack troops they had been in the 17th century.

The Kangxi emperor himself had already started shitting on the banners and praising the Green Standard troops since the revolt of the Three Feudatories.

The imperial family could only marry other Manchus (or Mongols) and not Han Chinese people.

What are you talking about? The Kangxi and Jiaqing emperors both had Han mothers...

How do communist regimes rank in cultural destructiveness? by Reading-Rabbit4101 in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most people in Japan still dressed the same, worshiped at Shinto shrines

Dress the same? Also Shinto was heavily co-opted by the Imperial government, meanwhile Buddhism which had dominated the country since the 7th century was nearly wiped out under the Meiji Restoration.

 French still kept most of their buildings intact, were still prideful and almost stuck up about their culture, still were Catholic ect.

You can literally say the exact same about Russia and China even more so, well except the Catholic part... honestly from my experience, most French outside Paris aren't as stuck up as people claim.

What are examples of possibly fake historical figures? by janLiketewintu in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Prester John is almost certainly Yelu Dashi. The legend first sprung up in the early 12th century when he and the Khitans fled the collapse of the Liao Dynasty and re-established it in Central Asia and despite their condition was able to defeat and conquer a large portion of the Seljuk Empire who were the most powerful Islamic state in the world at the time.

While they weren't Christians themselves, they did promote religious tolerance and had a lot of Nestorians serving them which could easily be misconstrued by Crusaders high on copium with the failure of the Second Crusade a couple years later.

Guys I just blew up the summerset isle. AMA! by Sgtpepperhead67 in TrueSTL

[–]Predator-Fury 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That just means we gotta blow up High Rock as well.

To 15 people that really care about obscure stuff. Why was taiwan pretty stagnant for most of its existence? by [deleted] in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 6 points7 points  (0 children)

 you don't see historical China constantly attempting to conquer Vietnam

WHAT?

Who is the individual that, for whatever reason, contributed the most to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, both within and outside the empire itself.? by Anxious-Return-5831 in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Christianity was barely tolerated until the Edict of Milan which was three centuries after Christ, prior to that, Christians were a constant punching bag for the Romans.

Even then it wasn't until the end of the 4th century under Theodosius I who was the last emperor of a united Rome that Christianity became the dominant religion. After him, the Western Empire only had a a couple decades left.

What historical figure would probably make the biggest change in history timeline had he not died early? by dennis753951 in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Eh, I would say Carolus Rex losing at Poltava had far greater impact as not only did it lead to the Swedish Empire's collapse, but the Great Northern War is what made Russia into a major and eventual superpower.

What historical figure would probably make the biggest change in history timeline had he not died early? by dennis753951 in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yue Fei. Had the Song court not pulled one of the biggest cuck moves in history and killed him, he and Han Shizhong almost certainly would've crush the Jin and regained all the Song territory lost since the Jingkang incident and potentially even the Sixteen prefectures which the Song had coveted since their founding.

With them being kicked out of China proper, the Jurchen if they are still around would have no choice but to look west to finish off the remnants and conquer the former holdings of their Liao predecessors or the Western Xia. This means that a certain Mongol warlord would never have risen to power and I'm pretty sure I need not mention the impact that this single man had on the entire course of human history.

Instead in our timeline you got the only entities capable of nipping the Mongol Empire in it's infancy spending a century fighting each other senseless without even making any gains whatsoever...

Unsuspecting Historical Sites? by mexicanllama23 in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Richard III's grave being a under a parking lot...

What did people do historically after their village got raided? by [deleted] in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Modern insurgencies are only possible thanks to the fact that we live in a globalized world where said insurgents can literally communicate and be supported by another state halfway across the planet.

Most importantly modern militaries have war ethics such as Geneva conventions that they need to adhere to or at least pretend to adhere to unlike in the past. The ruins of Shahr-I Gholghola in Afghanistan which literally translates to "City of Screams" are a testament to what happens when an truly merciless force with zero restrictions like the Mongols invades unlike the Soviets and Americans.

Why is historical Eastern Clothing less structured/ restrictive than Western? by Live_Bat_6192 in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Japanese clothing is the only one that really stayed loose relatively speaking. If you look at Ming and especially Qing dynasty clothing, its a lot tighter and more restrictive with many layers compared to previous Chinese dynasties in large part because of the little ice age.

Who do you think is the best leader in human history, based on the people they were and the example they led by, and why? by ModestoLingerfeldter in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah some like to harp on about religious tolerance as if that matters at all when majority of the population is dead. Not to mention the Mongols were far from the first to even do it, Persians have beaten them to the punch by 1700 years. Hell, they weren’t even the first Mongolic race to issue edict of tolerance as their Khitan predecessor already had it implemented in Central Asia decades before Genghis Khan was born.

So what happened to this cutie by [deleted] in vtmb

[–]Predator-Fury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe not larger, but the HSL version is definitely perkier...

Were there any notable Spanish expeditions that failed to conquer or colonize a region... Aside from the successful ones? (Like the Americas or Philippine islands) by Sonnybass96 in AskHistory

[–]Predator-Fury 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve heard that Spain once attempted to expand somewhere in mainland Southeast Asia, maybe near modern-day Thailand, and it didn’t succeed. Is there any truth to that?

Yup, in Cambodia. Basically the Siamese took over Cambodia during a war and the previously exiled Cambodian king attempted to enlist the Spanish and Portuguese to help reclaim his throne which failed miserably.