Opium wars.
The content of the reforms involved adopting Western culture and technology in various aspects, striving to "learn from the barbarians to control the barbarians."
This Martial Saint's Health Bar is Too Thick!
Eastern · The Pen That Can't Fly
What’s the point of civilization if you don’t know if you are going to die either today or tomorrow. With immense strength and time a civilization can be born.
The content of the reforms involved adopting Western culture and technology in various aspects, striving to "learn from the barbarians to control the barbarians."
This Martial Saint's Health Bar is Too Thick!
Eastern · The Pen That Can't Fly
Hahaha I have found a brother who has the same vision as us.
Big meant strong, strong meant big, and bigger muscles felt safer!
Holy Fist!
Urban · Gray tombstone
I agree but don’t forget time changes everything. Maybe if you are already so old another hundred years might not be as Masive compared to now.
Zhou Yi swirled his wine cup and murmured, "Empires or Imperial Clans, civil servants or military officers, generations of prodigies or powers that dominated the court, they are all but fleeting clouds!"
I have Immortality In The Cultivation World
Eastern · Carpenter Rice Green
How much for that skill? Price is negotiable
When the Vajra Indestructible Skill was used, even the genitalia would become golden and as hard as steel.
Hunting Immortals and Demons
Eastern · Mu Tong Ting Zhu
tbh he be dead
If he hadn’t had the Modifier on him, he could at the very most only arrive at Spirit Focus after a lifetime’s hard work. Just like the old Sect Master.
Way of the Devil
Eastern · Get Lost
How dare a mortal like you disrespect the Evil God Priest Yezola. Purely unforgivable.
[Your role is: Evil God Priest Yezola]
Life Game In Other World
Games · I love Xiao Yi
big time skip... was only expecting a year lol
Five years later, Little Yellow Mountain.
Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme
Eastern · Forget to wear a vest
num 1 of all of existence
"Ding: Please become the Federal Martial Arts Champion at the end of the Martial Exam, otherwise, the 'Master of Space' talent will disappear."
Hyperdimensional Universe: I have Three Thousand Ultimate Talents
Eastern · A Sea Of Soup
Can be both ways. The very famous one is the mongols and the Chinese. At some point and time they won yet still adapted to the Chinese culture aka the Yuan dynasty. But over a very long time that you are powerful you create a civilization. A basic example is Europe. Through its early ages it was honestly a vastly inferior compared to other regions. Roman Empire is a little bit of an outlier, but at the same time when it fell majority of Europe civilization fell too. It did took hundred of years for it to kind of recover.
The content of the reforms involved adopting Western culture and technology in various aspects, striving to "learn from the barbarians to control the barbarians."
This Martial Saint's Health Bar is Too Thick!
Eastern · The Pen That Can't Fly