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WHAT EMPEROR QIN SHI HUANG DID BETTER THAN THE ROMANS OR THE GREEK
- Qin's fighting tactic was one line of crossbow men. A second one loading and a third one as extra. This kind of fire/reloading system was last used at 1914.
- Qin horsemen developed other ways to drive horses into war. All horses were chosen by a difficult system and they had to fulfill a few rules. Only than was a horse good enough to go to war.
- Roman and Greek chariots were different from those of the Qin. European horses ran themselves to death by the tight spreads around their necks. Qin developed other spreads. European horses could carry 180 kilograms in weight. Qin horses a ton and they didn't suffer.
- Qin battles were shorter because of tactics who were just better.
- Greek soldiers thought immortality was received on the battlefield. The Romans thought their emperor was a god. Qin Shi Huangdi believed he was a god and searched immortality in chemical medicines made of jade, mercury and gold.
- Roman troupes had a few hundred thousand soldiers. The greek ten thousand solders. Emperor Qin had one million soldiers under his command.
- Qin sacrificed all his concubines by burying them with him. They only had to die with him if they didn't gave the emperor a son. They were buried alive while Greeks or Romans didn't take a single person with them in the afterlife.
- Qin has the biggest mausoleum on earth. Some say it's 52 kilometers long. Greeks or Romans were not that busy with building tombs...
- The Qin builded a giant wall to protect the northern side of the Middle Kingdom. The Romans builded forts all over their territory.
- Every weapon used by the Qin was made and checked by prime minister Lu Büwei.
- Qin burned all books of earlier rulers and a lot of books written by Confucius. The Romans and Greek kept everything in large libraries.
- After 47, Roman soldiers got paid pension. Qin soldiers had to go to war whatever your age was. When you were older than 17 and you were still capable you simply had to go.
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