Good lord this analysis is ignorant of history, geography, and nutrition.
Spoken at a different time, you'd be arguing that Caucasiods were incapable of evolving and had reached an evolutionary dead end since they are a half-breed of Homo Sapiens & Neanderthals, and the most advanced civilizations in the world had long since surpassed them in Asia and China. There is a reason the Mongols didn't go further than Hungary, there wasn't anything valuable to plunder.
Alternatively, you could also make the claim that the Japanese were a stagnant civilization that had reached the end point of their development in about 1400, and were incapable of any further development... and you would have been very wrong about that by the begining of WW2.
Hell, you could even make similar arguments about the Germans prior to their rise in the 1800's.
But, that would be incredibly stupid, and doesn't take literally anything else into account, like mechanisms of trade, nutrition, and culture.
It's hilarious that you even managed to identify the correct point early on, and didn't recognize it:
100BC, the indigenous populations of the Americas were uncontacted. Sub-Saharan Africans were mostly uncontacted
Wanna guess why being a completely uncontactable population might stunt technological development?
What happens to a person who never leaves his house? What did happen to people who didn't leave their houses from lockdowns? What have we already seen happen to children from those lockdowns when their whole social structures are locked down? What do you think happens to a population that is like that, or a culture that emerges from it?
There really wasn't anything of significant value in France or Germany when you contrast it with the wealth of the Persians, China, Egypt, and Constantinople.
The Mongols stopped in Hungary for the same reason they stopped in Vietnam. It made no sense to keep going. The death of Ghengis only adds a massive amount of political infighting into that. It would have been useful to send some of those family members further out to raid wealthier kingdoms, but all the greatest prizes were already seized. France may have been the strongest power in Western Europe, but it was a paltry little kingdom compared to what the Mongols already had. Germany was a confederation of loosely affiliated states that didn't have much in the way of great palaces or wealth. Seizing Vienna or Rome might have been a nice cap to their successes, but they were nothing without access to the Silk Road (now under Mongol control), and Constantinople was bigger. Seizing the Islamic Caliphates (which had access to North African gold) would be much more profitable, and unfortunately, the Muslims were putting up so much resistance that they were actually fucking winning.
Religion of Peace: Defeats Mongols in pitched battle
The Russians were a) standing next to the mongols, b) were closer and more accessible than Hungry.
As for low grasslands... Europe was covered in Forrest. It's why a whole swath of the central Europe used to be called : The Black Forest. It was a big, dark, thick forest. Paris and Madrid simply aren't worth the effort compared to Constantinople.
Good lord this analysis is ignorant of history, geography, and nutrition.
Spoken at a different time, you'd be arguing that Caucasiods were incapable of evolving and had reached an evolutionary dead end since they are a half-breed of Homo Sapiens & Neanderthals, and the most advanced civilizations in the world had long since surpassed them in Asia and China. There is a reason the Mongols didn't go further than Hungary, there wasn't anything valuable to plunder.
Alternatively, you could also make the claim that the Japanese were a stagnant civilization that had reached the end point of their development in about 1400, and were incapable of any further development... and you would have been very wrong about that by the begining of WW2.
Hell, you could even make similar arguments about the Germans prior to their rise in the 1800's.
But, that would be incredibly stupid, and doesn't take literally anything else into account, like mechanisms of trade, nutrition, and culture.
It's hilarious that you even managed to identify the correct point early on, and didn't recognize it:
Wanna guess why being a completely uncontactable population might stunt technological development?
What happens to a person who never leaves his house? What did happen to people who didn't leave their houses from lockdowns? What have we already seen happen to children from those lockdowns when their whole social structures are locked down? What do you think happens to a population that is like that, or a culture that emerges from it?
There really wasn't anything of significant value in France or Germany when you contrast it with the wealth of the Persians, China, Egypt, and Constantinople.
The Mongols stopped in Hungary for the same reason they stopped in Vietnam. It made no sense to keep going. The death of Ghengis only adds a massive amount of political infighting into that. It would have been useful to send some of those family members further out to raid wealthier kingdoms, but all the greatest prizes were already seized. France may have been the strongest power in Western Europe, but it was a paltry little kingdom compared to what the Mongols already had. Germany was a confederation of loosely affiliated states that didn't have much in the way of great palaces or wealth. Seizing Vienna or Rome might have been a nice cap to their successes, but they were nothing without access to the Silk Road (now under Mongol control), and Constantinople was bigger. Seizing the Islamic Caliphates (which had access to North African gold) would be much more profitable, and unfortunately, the Muslims were putting up so much resistance that they were actually fucking winning.
Religion of Peace: Defeats Mongols in pitched battle
The Russians were a) standing next to the mongols, b) were closer and more accessible than Hungry.
As for low grasslands... Europe was covered in Forrest. It's why a whole swath of the central Europe used to be called : The Black Forest. It was a big, dark, thick forest. Paris and Madrid simply aren't worth the effort compared to Constantinople.