[Documentary] The Daming Palace &Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 AD) 唐朝大明宫

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[ganeemead]

Daming is by far the largest and most opulent palace complex in the world. Tang was China's most major dynasty.

[ifinnegan]

So now you’re posting Chicom propaganda, not just Russian.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Tang (618-907) was China's most major dynasty.

That's debatable. I think the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644) was the most technologically advanced empire between the Roman and British empires. The Mings invented gunpowder, the printing press, global shipping, and the toothbrush(!) before the West did.

[ifinnegan]

And it was most major.

Not just major, most major.

Like the most bestest.

[Angelino97]

But which was the mostest major empire?

[ganeemead]

Gunpowder predates the Ming by at least a couple of centuries. Mongols were using it in war by the middle 1200s.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Mongols were using it in war by the middle 1200s.

The Mongols never used firearms or cannons in their conquests (too early!). They employed incendiary weapons, but not explosive projectiles.

[ganeemead]

Hulagu was using gunpowder bombs thrown from catapults against those mountain redoubts of the Ismailians, mid 1200s. Mongols had cannons by 1280 or thereabouts.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

According to this paper, "the Mongols did not use firearms."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43307240

According to World History, Volume 1, "The Mongols employed gunpowder and incendiary devices when laying siege to cities but did not adopt guns for fighting on horseback."

https://openstax.org/books/world-history-volume-1/pages/17-3-gunpowder-and-nomads-in-a-transitional-age

[chajin]

The Song dynasty was much better; it had music with lyrics of depth and thoughtfulness. The Tang dynasty didn’t even have good Mandarin orange juice. The Chin dynasty was a difficult period, especially when the empire split in two and became the Double Chin dynasty.