World history has never developed independently, but looking closely at the development trend of the ancient history of China and the West, there are many periods of history that have a very large relationship.
For example, the reason for the destruction of the ancient Roman Empire, which is very famous in Western history, came from two Military Operations by China. Let's take a look at the historical traces of the butterfly effect brought about by China's military dispatch.
First, the effect linkage of the ancient Chinese side
1. Prairie Melee
During the period of the ancient Roman Empire, ancient China was in the Qin and Han dynasties.
Due to the expansion of China's military territory, the Qin and Han Empire gradually expanded the area of its territory to the boundaries of the Eurasian steppe. At this point, the Roman Empire and the Qin and Han Empires were connected by this grassland. Therefore, if something big happens in this steppe, it will inevitably affect the relationship between the two empires.
In the eastern part of the Eurasian steppe, there are many nomadic peoples living here, which is common in ancient poetry. The presence of the Xiongnu posed a serious threat to the Qin and Han Empires. Therefore, during the Qin Dynasty, great attention was paid to border warfare, and Qin Shi Huang also ordered the construction of the Great Wall of Qin, hoping to isolate the invasion between the two countries.
The very famous Han Gaozu in history was also trapped in Datong for 7 days because of the attack on the Xiongnu, which shows that there has been a lot of friction between the two countries. The desire of the Xiongnu was also very strong, and according to historical records, the Xiongnu had been planning to invade the Chinese mainland long before the Qin and Han Empires and wanted to kill the emperor.
Although there was constant friction, it was not until the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that China was able to establish a legal despotism to resist the Xiongnu. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Huo Toyi, Wei Qing and other famous ancient generals to the frontier to defend against the Xiongnu.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu were divided into two parts, the north and the south because of the geographical environment and other issues, the south and the Han Emperor reached an agreement and coexisted peacefully, but the north still followed the previous principles and was always preparing to invade China.
So the Han Dynasty decided to attack the north together with the Southern Xiongnu. The north was thus severely hit, and took its own tribes to the west, and did not stop until Central Asia to repair. After their stay, some of the Huns stayed where they were and decided to develop in Central Asia, while the rest continued westward to the Black Sea coast.
2. Linkage effect
The westward advance of the Huns brought many chain reactions. Soon, the Huns led their tribes to European territory. Europeans were very curious about people and tribes they had never seen before, and gave them a special title , the Yellow Peril. According to the historical records of the Roman Empire, the people of the West also called them "almost glued to the horse" people.
Faced with a tribe they had never seen before, the people of Europe moved from place to tribe, and the first thing that came to mind was aggression. The people of Europe are highly vigilant about this, and have sent troops for initial contacts on many occasions. But each time it was ushered in, the entire tribe instantly mounted on a warhorse, tearing its heart and lungs, and constantly fighting back, as if there was no way to take it under its command.
At the same time, the first thing western tribes think of to tribes of other peoples they first meet is not to negotiate around their own territory, but to enslave them, as can be seen in the results of previous wars of aggression between tribes in Africa and Europe.
Therefore, after the Huns arrived in the west, they were basically constantly fighting with the European people, and because of this, the strong combat strength of the Huns was rumored to be spread to various European tribes. Soon, according to the continuous counterattack of the Huns, the Visigothic territory on the border of the Roman Empire was taken, and it was officially settled in Rome.
Decades later, most of the Visigothic territories were invaded by the Huns, and it was necessary to continue westward into the middle of the Roman Empire.
At that time, the kings of the Roman Empire had a strong sense of territory, and there were many wars with the Visigoths, but what they did not expect was that the Visigoths actually killed the Roman Emperor with their amazing fighting ability, which was also a very famous barbarian invasion in Western history.
1. The East and West in "Five Hu Chaohua"
The Visigoths were a branch of the Eastern Germans in the Roman Empire at that time, and as early as the time when the Roman Empire ruled Western civilization, the Germanics were the more serious group of all the tribes in the West that were absorbed and maimed by the Roman Empire.
After the establishment of the Roman Empire, in order to preserve their own people and culture, 6 Tribes composed of Germans joined the Roman Empire one after another, and the political situation at that time was very similar to the "Wuhu Chaohua" in ancient China.
Their accession was not only a man-made change, but also a cultural and military change in the interior of the Roman Empire.
Therefore, the fall of the Roman Empire was partly due to the invasion of the East Germans.
However, China's "five nonsense" predates the West by nearly 100 years. At that time, after Emperor Wu of han and the Southern Xiongnu jointly drove out the Northern Xiongnu, decades later, the Southern Xiongnu took the opportunity to go south, violating the agreement between the two countries, and this history was the "Five Hu Chaohua" in Chinese history.
The form of China after that, very similar to that of the Roman Empire, was divided into two parts, the north was occupied by the Southern Huns, and the south reached China's Eastern Jin Dynasty and Southern Dynasty time. The Xiongnu at this time were also known as "barbarians" in Chinese history.
2. The attack of the nomads
Why do two empires living on opposite sides of the world have similar histories at the same time? In fact, a large part of the reason comes from the rise of nomads.
The nomadic peoples squatted in their nests at the northern end of China for nearly a thousand years, and they had gathered enough troops to decide to expand their territory from the beginning of the Qin Dynasty. In fact, at that time, the world was basically everywhere except Africa, and there were nomadic conquests everywhere.
As mentioned above, some of the nomadic peoples stayed in the westward expansion, and the other part continued to move westward, and the Huns who stayed behind began to march south after repairing, invading India, taking many lands near India and their own countries, and then successfully invading the Persian Empire. Until the 3rd-6th centuries, almost all the empires of Eurasia were invaded by the Huns.
3. China's two military operations
1. Internal impact
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the situation was chaotic. Culture is in a period of stagnation, and politics is in a period of corruption.
The emperor's fainting brought about the instability of the dynasty, from the emperor to the emperor's relatives and relatives can not really grasp the power of the DPRK, but also because of the corruption of politics has inspired some foreign relatives, eunuchs and other people to seize power, from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Western Han Dynasty, many emperors are in a period of unnatural death, the emperor changed and changed, the more these eunuchs and foreign relatives grasp the political power of the DPRK.
For the foreign relatives and eunuchs who had never been in power, they completely enjoyed the desire for power and luxury, and there was no way to care about the real national affairs, which gave the Xiongnu the opportunity to invade the north of our country and occupy the magpie's nest.
Similarly, whether it was India, Persia or the Roman Empire, it had reached the late stage of corruption and pedantry, so the nomadic peoples could take this opportunity to invade the country. Moreover, these nomadic peoples who invaded all corners of the world, their birthplaces are from northern China, and they have been constantly at war with China for a long time, bringing them many stronger combat strategies.
Our army is constantly strengthening, and the enemy is enriching itself. During the more than two-hundred-year-long war with China, the Xiongnu therefore invented the horse-drawn chariot, which became the main means of ground warfare in the later period.
summary
In the fourth year of Tang Zhenguan, in the distant European territory, the ancient Roman Empire had long been transformed into the Eastern Roman Empire with only half of the Empire left because of the Visigothic invasion. The western part is inhabited by barbarians.
At this time, Tang Taizong saw that his country's military capabilities were constantly growing, and decided to use the Turks' attack on China's Hexi as an excuse to order Li Jing, the god of war, to raise troops for the general to the north, leading 100,000 generals, dividing the troops into six roads, and expanding the territory of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang army was overwhelming, and under the leadership of Li Jing, the Turks were quickly dispersed.
In this battle, more than 10,000 Turks were eliminated and more than 100,000 Turks were captured. Subsequently, the captured Turkic people announced their surrender, and the Tang Dynasty expanded its territory to present-day Lake Baikal.
Immediately afterward, Tang Xuanzong did not stop the rhythm of expanding the territory, and ordered the troops to continue westward from the Turkic locations to find the European territory to complete the expansion. After arriving in Central Asia, they encountered the Northern Huns, who had been expelled to this place, and then continued to drive them out of the boundaries of the Central Asian continent. At this point, the territory of the Tang Dynasty expanded to the Central Asian continent.
Although the people of the Western Turks could not defeat the Tang army, they chose to continue their westward advance and encountered the Eastern Roman Empire. In the process of a slight repair to the edges of the Eastern Roman Empire, the Ottoman Turkish Empire was established, and after that, about a hundred years later, invaded the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Roman Empire officially disappeared from the world map.
Theoretically, the disappearance of the Roman Empire mainly stemmed from the eastern Han Dynasty, the alliance of our army with the Southern Xiongnu, and the two military activities to suppress the Turks during the Tang Dynasty. These two military operations did not intuitively destroy the Roman Empire but also had a great impact on the Roan Empire, which originated from a strong military force but also destroyed by the fragility of the military force.
It can be seen that the military capabilities of the later Roman Empire were very weak, and the government was also very dim. At the same time, this is not the reason for the unilateral defeat of Rome. From the end of the 3rd century, the empires of the whole world were in a state of political darkness, and the ascension of eunuchs to the throne at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty led to most of the nomadic people taking the opportunity to enter and take the national land.
The chain reaction brought about by China's two large-scale military operations can better reflect the different development situations of the East and the West in the same period of time. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the imperial politics of the entire world basically reached the end, and the Tang Dynasty was a peak period of Chinese civilization. The decline and rise of the ancient Roman Empire in China twice is a model of the world-famous butterfly effect.
bibliography:
1. "The Roman Empire Was Destroyed in Two Military Operations in China"
2. "The Butterfly Effect of China Repelling the Huns: The Roman Empire Was Divided and No Longer Unified"
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