What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Westerners blow rome, always can not hide the exaggeration.
In any case, after the extinction of the country, the historical records are scattered, and they can be imaginative.
What the Roman Empire was most developed and powerful in economic military population technology and everything was unprecedented, was a global number one superpower and so on.
Unlike Westerners, we have a solid history of faith.
Who had the greater military capabilities of the Great Han Empire and the Roman Empire was a long-standing debate.
In fact, in the "Records of History", Mr. Sima Qian had already written clearly, and Zhang Qian, the emissary of the Great Han Dynasty, also said it clearly.
We must first understand a nation — rest in peace. This ancient country on the Iranian plateau, the most powerful when the north Euphrates River, the east to the Amu Darya River, and the War with Rome was continuous. The most famous Battle of Calay, Rome's greatest defeat, was the rest of its opponents.
In 53 BC, Crassus, one of the three giants of Rome, led 7 heavy infantry legions, 4,000 light infantry, and 4,000 cavalry, and marched to the east to rest in peace. However, the Romans were attacked by less than 20,000 Sabbath troops in Calder, 20,000 soldiers were killed, 10,000 soldiers were captured, and almost completely annihilated.
Rome had been looking forward to resting in peace, but had not been able to eat it into its stomach, and Octavian reluctantly signed a peace treaty. The disintegration of sabbatical ultimately stemmed from civil war.
However, how did Zhang Qian, the envoy of the Great Han Dynasty who had set foot in the rest of the country, see the rest of the peace? "Dawan and Bactria and the rest of the genus are all great powers, many strange things, indigenous people, quite the same as China, but weak soldiers." This means that the countries of Dawan and Bactria and Rest are all big countries, with many rare treasures, and they are settled in the land, almost the same as the customs of the Han Dynasty, and the military strength is weak.
Don't think that Zhang Qian deliberately belittled other countries in order to curry favor with the emperor, he commented on other countries, "in the north of which there are the Great Moon Clan and the Kangju clan, and the soldiers are strong." It is impossible to make nonsense about the country's strategy. Otherwise it's a matter of losing your head.
Emperor Wu of Han, with the words of Zhang Qian, decided the strategy of the Han Empire towards the Western Regions. In 103 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty made an expedition to Dawan, and soon Dawan suffered countless casualties, the capital was breached, the king was killed, and the water source was cut off.
It was also "weak", resting in decline, but almost completely annihilating the Roman army in the ascendant period. And at that time, Iran was a rich land, and the Han army went out to a desolate place, and the local supply conditions were worrying. In other words, the difficulty of the Han Dynasty's expedition to Dawan was much higher than that of the Roman Crusade to rest.
In the Han Dynasty and Rome, it was clear which military strength was strong and which was weak.