>>64237868
I don't know, did the later technological evolution win against the earlier one that faded out while the later one went strong?
Sometimes we read arguments like, oh it was just easier to train or equip a bunch of mass conscripts with [later weaponry] that the ancient superior master art was lost.
But they're both armored shock cavalry, they're the last thing anyone compromised on.
Sometimes shit people post is like a 26th future historian arguing that f-35s were expensive and overspecialized but the red baron's airplane was cool as shit and check out his war record, he could easily take an f-35.

>>64238930
I kind of enjoy the conspiracy that all Chinese history is fake even as it derails the thread
I mean they're an autocratic regime that clamps down on information, how would we really know?