Tell me without telling me that your high school did not reach any world history outside of Europe.https://twitter.com/EGirlMonetarism/status/1429818512521023488 …
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Chinese military history is interesting in that they're using tech that is unknown in Europe for a while, their population is way higher, and most of their wars are technically civil wars. A good analogy is the big Greek battles, if you had a higher pop and less ocean.
A fair bit of the impact here is also rice cultivation and irrigated river valleys (also cultivating wheat in N. China) which leads to very high population densities. Note in the linked bit how the key limit is population density.
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Hey thanks for responding! Do you consider these numbers plausible, then? (I realize this isn’t your primary area)
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My sense is that scholars of Chinese warfare consider these numbers plausible at least to the rough order of magnitude. I don't have the expertise to disagree.
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I wouldn't necessarily say the difference - as far as I can tell - is technology per se, so much as patterns of agriculture. My sense of the research is that wheat yields in N. China were not dissimilar from contemporary yields in Europe or Mesopotamia.
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But most agriculture in Europe is rainfall agriculture and areas of river-irrigation agriculture are fairly small. The Yangtze and Yellow rivers are *huge* by comparison. Like, the Yangtze discharges 30,000m3/s compared to the Nile's c. 3,000m3/s.
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