Why didn't anyone else build these?
I thought Asians were supposed to be smarter, but their fortresses and "castles" all seem to have been made with wood.
Did their military technology simply advance so fast that they skipped over the era of sieges?
Why didn't anyone else build these?
Tyler Brooks
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Gavin Lewis
that building was for like one family and 700 servants
Luis Richardson
Miguel Serrano said that castles are the heart of European spirituality
Evan Myers
The castle would've been more important than the family who lived in it, most times. This one's in the North of Spain and it was originally built around the time the reconquista was going on I think
I believe it
Jose King
Who the hell would know this?
The West is better at war than anybody else.
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James Rivera
>this glorious structured employed 800 people
OK? Asians built huts out of rice and still got nuked. Great "culture" you've got there.
Jonathan Price
It is very interesting. He also stated, and it is confirmed that -burg means "castle". So you have BURGundy, Castille, and every other word or location or even names with -burg on the end of it are related to castles and thus related to Aryan history and spirituality
Sebastian Baker
>employed
no, they werent paid.
Camden Baker
also even rice farmers have beaten USA at modern warfare
Easton Bennett
And also the Habsburgs and things like this. It has something to do with the 12 stages of ilumination of the spirit. And these 12 stages, it seems, are analogous to castles. Hence the special care for the nobles of gothic origing to castles.
William Morales
I support this
Jayden Reyes
>get to live in castle in exchange for doing menial tasks, instead of freezing to death in a mud hut like the rest of the commoners
So basically the same thing as when a rich liberal "hires" an illegal alien nanny.
Luis King
They weren't paid but with their service it came special priviledge. Some peasents offered to become slaves and servants to climb the social ladder. Some of them, if they were good and inteligent and loyal, were granted special places and special responsabilities and powers
Jaxon Baker
Why didn't the Chinese build castles?
Chinese do have castles, but in a very small number, and most of them are in rural areas or along with the Great Wall, as garrisons and wall passes.
Because the concept of “defence” is different from the Japanese and European approach. Rather than taking strong holds by few thousands of people to control a certain region, the Chinese made the city itself as a huge stronghold and pass, and every war is taking, or being taken the cities. And usually the richer, larger a city is always with taller, stronger walls and towers, which make the city itself become a huge castle.
A typical characteristic of ancient Chinese war is, the siege / defence are happened for the most part around cities, with really mass scale.
Just an example, Nanjing, a huge city with 1.2 million urban population inside the wall in year 1420, (at that time Paris only has around 200K people), and you need an army of 100K to lay siege (like what the emperor did). On this scale, the castle is a 10/10 useless thing under this army comparing with Nanjing’s city wall and gates — as the castle can be sieged easily under trebuchets from far distance, or surrender because of shortage in supplies.
Robert Lee
>burg means castle
we wuz kangz
Cooper Sullivan
Because feudalism didn't develop in the same way in other places. People who owned land needed a safe place to live, so they built huge castles. They had a deal with serfs where they would protect them if the serfs would work the land and provide income.
Caleb Bailey
We killed 4 million of them. Military dead alone
The audacity of this nigga
Jace Sanders
Mainly because Asians maintained large empires and their only enemy was basically always from the North. Fortifications weren't needed in 80% of the land
Leo Sullivan
Chinese are generally not forward-thinking people. The Japanese are and their castles, though made of wood, were very effective.
Nicholas Collins
then we aren't europeans
Austin Brown
Bro, Asians built mile long ships that they filled with gold that no one could pirate
Andrew Peterson
We are, but devoided of European spirituality
Michael Sanders
OK? Asians built huts out of rice and still got nuked. Great "culture" you've got there.