Why did the gunpowder revolution take place in Europe and not

>>30986277
Because it did.

>>30986277
Because China was largely a peaceful country with huge wars only every 200 years.

And even in these wars, they fought mere horse nomads or against rebellions.

Because the Chinese don't traditionally do the R&D thing. They invent things.. then decline to follow through on them. Cultural and economic thing. Who wants to bust their ass and spend their money if their invention is going to belong to the Emperor? or better yet, earn him a death sentence because it disturbs social harmony or some shit?

>>30986277

their mortal enemies were nomadic, traditional pike/spear and crossbow combinations worked more reliably in comparison to early gunpowder weapons. also they were more into gunpowder propelled arrows / rockets and catapulted explosives.

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>>30986304
Most enemies were merely scrubs, which is why their advanced technology were overkill.

And when they fell, they fell not because their enemies were super-strong, but because they themselves were too corrupt to fight.

Pic: rapid loading musket of the Ming Dynasty.

>>30986277

welp it didnt help their last dynasty's ruling class were former nomads who spent more time trying to pacify the population and restricting scholarship rather than promoting any sort of R&D

>>30986277
Bc Confucius and his hippy ass ascetic pacifism fucked us up for centuries. Also we only fought Filipinos, proto Japanese, pre Peter Russians and mongol scrub kings

>>30986462
It wasn't so much the fault of the Manchu emperors. China was still ahead or comparable technologically before the second to last dynasty (ming), but the extremist isolationist philosophy of the ming ruined it, and by the time the Manchu came in, it was the early 17th century and the Chinese were already lagging.

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Because the Mongorians didn't have guns.

Now imagine Mongorian musket snipers on horseback instead of archers. Then the Chinese would probably have a reason to take great strides in gun and black powder technology.

>>30988917

The peak of Chinese technological progress was with the Song, they had better stuff than everyone else in the world, but a horrible political situation, poor leadership, and ended up in the way of the Mongol Rapetrain.

The Ming were culturally competent, technologically retarded.

>>30986277
Because Europeans faced the ultimate adversary: other Europeans. Whereas the Chinese only had to worry about other asians, and thus had no need for ingenuity.

>>30989029
It's not just the idiots they had to fight, the Chinese fought different types of battles strategically and tactically, and this developed their technology along different lines. Like handheld fucking magazine fed crossbows from the 4th century bc

>>30986277
Because China also invented gun control and left said firearms ownership and innovation to an authoritarian and short sighted government.

HMMM A COMMON THEME THERE.

>>30986277
because china is full of chinks

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>>30986277
The Hans spreading all over the Chinese plains like locusts made that there was no real impetus to war mongering in the region past uniting the split states.

Compare that to Europe and the Mediterranean being in a state of endemic warfare since the Bronze Age.
Pretty much every technological improvement that made its way to Europe was adopted and magnified pretty fast.
Look at canons. Little hand-canons made their way through Iberia in the late 1200s. In the early 1300s the French were making the first metal canons (very stubby and with a small aperture shooting some sort of big bolt). A few years later they got big enough to destroy cavalry. A few decades later they were big enough to destroy fortifications with stone balls. Less than 150 years after the French made the first little stubby metal canons, the Ottomans were ordering gigantic bombards from Hungarians to tear down Constantinople's walls.