Silk Helped the Armies of Genghis Khan Conquer Asia
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#2Wars were exponentially more brutal the further back you went
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#3Wars were exponentially more brutal the further back you went
More personal, smaller scale, but many more individual conflicts per capita
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#4Wars were exponentially more brutal the further back you went
IDK, WW1 sounds like a pretty bad time.
Fighting the modern US would be also be some sort of bizarre existential dread, knowing that every move you make is probably tracked and you have a decent chance of being killed with absolutely no warning.
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#5Wars were exponentially more brutal the further back you went
People putting poop or muck on musket balls to cause sepsis.
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#6Wars were exponentially more brutal the further back you went
IDK, WW1 sounds like a pretty bad time. Fighting the modern US would be also be some sort of bizarre existential dread, knowing that every move you make is probably tracked and you have a decent chance of being killed with absolutely no warning.
Most likely way to die or become an amputee in modern war is being hit by artillery out of nowhere. There’s no glory in that so recruiters don’t talk about it much.
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#7Wars were exponentially more brutal the further back you went
Exponentially? Not really.
In pre-state societies, we generally seem to see around a 15% chance of dying due to warfare in your lifetime. Early states seem to see that fall to around mid-high single digits. And this decreases to tiny fractions in modern times, but mostly because warfare has declined rather than wars becoming less deadly. Brutal episodes of war--say the Eastern Front on WW2 or some of the theaters in modern wars--can see overall death rates of up to 20 or 30% of people involved. Given that the amount of people involved in military action has generally decreased (pre-state societies generally mobilize their entire military age male population as warriors, modern industrial states... don't), this suggests that ancient warfare is approximately as brutal as even lopsided modern warfare.
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#8This was really hard to read.
Some component of silk provided some sort of health benefit.
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#9Video of Traditional Mongolian Cavalry performing Horseback Archery by Namnaa Academy archers.
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#10Silk vests were the secret armor of the mongols against arrows.