>Waaah I got conquered Waah my women are raped WAAAH MY CITIES ARE SACKED
Get fucked, faggot
>>2873303
What kind of Steppe Nigger?
Mongols?
Magyars?
Turks?
Didn't China end up taking steppenigger clay?
>>2873457
Indo-Europeans
>>2873303
Mention 3 civilization that have never plundered/looted in history
Why did this happen? Why did a bunch of friendly chinese horse farmers in the middle of nowhere suddenly decide to go absolutely apeshit on the whole world?
>>2873862
It's called destiny. Something newfags generals like Bonaparte and Hitler would never understand, which is why they failed.
There's a reason the middle ages are fantasized about. Mongols tower over every empire before and since, only the Arab Caliphate even came close.
>>2873862
>friendly chinese horsefarmers
The answer to your question is that they weren't friendly at all but were bloodthirsty savages constantly waiting on the fringes of habitable land for their chance to strike whenever the settled people let their guard down.
>>2873862
>friendly
No
>chinese
No
>horsefarmers
Yes
>>2873862
Overpopulation in regard to their agricultural model (which was : no agriculture at all). Need for new lands to graze and cities to pillage. Constant internal warfare makes a rugged people with nothing to lose.
>>2873495
The Dorset and Moriori, who then promptly got massacred by the Inuit and Maori respectively.
>>2873303
#NotAllMongols #RapeKnowsNoRace #PrayFor Baghdad
>>2873457
Scythians
>>2873881
You know they barely held that empire for 100 years, right?
It's really not that impressive to conquer land and then just lose it equally as fast
The Avars did nothing wrong
>>2874539
Except steal Slavic language and customs to the point of losing their identity
>>2873886
Also got a good bit of luck. They caught both the Manchurian Jin and Chinese Song in the middle if a long running war, and was able to divide and conquer to get a strong power base early in their expansion.