You're also forgetting Rome's technological advantage: artillery/siege weaponry. If Han units could be immobilized or slowed they could be bombarded from outside crossbow range. Fortresses and cities were even more vulnerable.
technological advantage? don't kid yourself. Han China was at the forefront of human technological advancement at a time - many key technologies of the Han were literally 100s years ahead of anything the Romans, and the rest of the world for that matter, could come up with.
Roman artileries? what are you talking about? siege weaponaies? - go youtube the Han empire siege weaponaries which would make the Roman ones look like childplay.
Thank you for praising my ancestor, I can see you are an excellent man in histroy ,and a sophisticate man know about china histroy.Certaintly the Roman was nor nothing compare to The Han ,it was also very advanced civilization in ancient times . I mean not to go on being outspoken in that ,i'm just case by case!
You're welcome, panda. But my ancestors were amongst them, too!
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^^ standard legionaire. Note the two pilums (lances)
Now go educate yourself and compare it with the true technological superpower at a time- the Han (Note that the following was only Qin empire - The Han was much more powerful and larger than Qin):
Terracotta Army was an awesome fighting machine with weapons so powerful they could kill an enemy with a single arrow | Daily Mail Online
Making Weapons for the Terracotta Army | Martinón-Torres | Archaeology International
Exquisite Weaponry Excavated from Terra Cotta Warriors Pits
China's Terra-Cotta Army: 5 Things You Should Know | TIME.com
What’s so special… and spatial… about the Terracotta Army?
Ancient Impossible (2014) s01e04 Episode Script | SS
Gentlemen,
Let's all please get back to the subject matter and refrain from posting derogatory comments. Please, and Thank You for your consideration.
Regards,
but to defend their white master, the Indians here have gone bananas.
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Some Indians bragged here that "the Romans had more individualism, and freedom" than the Han. My ar$e!
The Roman empire was a slavery society. Europe was still primarily a slavery society as much later as during European Renaissance for god's sake.
In comparison, the Han empire was the world's first major civilisation that has abolished slavery by civil laws and was therefore based on freewill peasantry! Han Empire society was even more advanced than a typical feudal society, the feat Europe didn't achieve until quasi-modern time around the French Revolution many centries later.
Hence in today's terminology the Han Empire was a much , but much more "democratic, free and progressive" society at a time than what the Romans could have been or even dreamed of!
Roman legionaires were primarily based on forced slave soidiers from 4 corners of conquered lands, while the Han's army was based on nationwide free-will peasants whose fighting power, spirit, motivation, and patrotism (or an early form of nationalism) were leagues ahead of the Roman legionaires, apart from technological superiority.
Acutally a major reason for the fall of Rome was precisely due to its slavery empire characteristics. It consisted of countless Africans(the Blacks and Berbers), MEers etc. and the half-breeds between the original Romans and their conquered slaves, destroying the original Rome genes. Indeed, widespead miscegenation with the slaves is widely recognised by the historians as one of the major reasons of the fall of the Roman empire.