High Tang vs Pax Romana. What was the superior civilization?
Anonymous
8/14/2025, 4:28:42 PM
No.17922037
>>17922031 (OP)
Tang was much much richer than Rome if that's how you want to judge things. Also more stable.
Anonymous
8/14/2025, 5:00:47 PM
No.17922097
>>17922648
>>17922031 (OP)
Rome
>source
I said so in a Latin script language
Anonymous
8/14/2025, 6:09:26 PM
No.17922178
>>17923202
>>17922031 (OP)
Tang, rome was an oligarchy ran by pedophiles for the first half of its existence and an empire ran by degenerate barbarians for the second half, tang is what all chink culture descends from
Anonymous
8/14/2025, 6:37:13 PM
No.17922234
>>17922814
Tang is basically a peak society you could build with pre-modern technology. Insanely wealthy, extremely efficent almost modern meritocratic Government and services, extremely high culture, arts etc. Actual supported sciences, academies, universities etc. infamous literature (for Asia), peak silk road, peak architecture, mass printing, tonnes of different cultures and religions living in harmony, even had Manichaeans and Zoroastrians with large communities.
Emperor Xuanzong basically fucked it all up by being a turbo simp, becoming obsessed with taoist occultism and turning a blind eye to corruption and warlords on the frontier, resulting in the An Lushan rebellion.
Anonymous
8/14/2025, 8:51:21 PM
No.17922530
the democratic republic of the congo
Anonymous
8/14/2025, 9:48:22 PM
No.17922648
>>17922097
Now just imagine 1849 Habsburg’s realm make Latin, an de facto legal language.
Anonymous
8/14/2025, 11:15:14 PM
No.17922814
>>17922234
>extremely efficent almost modern meritocratic Government and services
That's Song dynasty. Tang was still primarily using Cao Cao's recommendation system which devolved into simple cronyism already in Wei.
Just to give you some idea, early Tang had 6% of its offices staffed by people who had passed Imperial Exams (and this includes people selected for office, so it's not 6% of peasant prodigies rising into officialdom through merit) and this has risen to 17% in its post-Wu era.
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:14:50 AM
No.17923145
>>17923148
Rome, no question. Unmatched military strength for the time.
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:15:33 AM
No.17923148
>>17923496
>>17923145
And still lost to a bunch of Germanic barbarians. KEKLMAO. Tang would never
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 2:40:01 AM
No.17923202
>>17922178
There was a lot of degenerate stuff happening during the Tang period too that you'd know about if you were historically literate
Anonymous
8/15/2025, 11:38:51 AM
No.17924078
