I recently got into a debate with a couple of folks over whether or not armored cavalry were a thing in the Three Kingdoms period of China. As far as I'm aware, frontal chest pieces or barding started becoming more prevalent by the late 2nd century. But heavily-armored shock cavalry were not utilized, and it would not be until the middle of the Jin dynasty in the mid-300s that heavily armored cavalry became a thing in China. One source I found that supported this was CJ Peers' "Soldiers of the Dragon: Chinese Armies 1500 BC - AD 1840", which states:

"The 4th century AD is significant in Chinese military history for the introduction of cataphract equipment for cavalry, and for the first widespread use of stirrups. Whereas in western Asia the rise of fully armoured charging cavalry long pre-dates the invention of the stirrup, in China the two innovations seem to have occurred at about the same time. What little evidence we have suggests that the latter may have been an indigenous development, while complete horse armour appears to have spread from a point of origin in the north-east. The Hsiung-nu in northwestern China first obtained panoplies in 312 by capturing them from the Hsien-pi, who had migrated from Manchuria and probably introduced the cataphract horse into China proper. The earliest depiction in art is from the tomb of Tung Shou, a Ts'in warlord buried in what is now Korea, which dates from 357. It appears that cataphract cavalry spread through China fairly quickly illustrations from the period 385—94 were found in a tomb in Yunnan in the far south-west - but the tactics best suited to their capabilities took some time to evolve."

Based on that last sentence, it would seem to me that there was a lack of even a proto-cataphract-like armored cavalry, since they didn't even have knowledge of what tactics to use for heavier cavalry.

So my question is: how heavily armored were the cavalry, and what sorts of tactics were used to employ those cavalry? If cataphract-like embodiments of heavy cavalry didn't exist, did some sort of other heavy cavalry exist?

I'm no white nationalist but I've heard the symbol actually started out in a fairly positive way, so how did the swastika come into use?

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If they had no spears, sarissas but just pilums, a sword and a shield... They took probably take out of a few of the enemy cavalry with pilums but that wouldn't be enough.

I recently learned of the movement's existence and would like to learn more about the phenomenon.

The Nazis had different triangle insignias for different prisoners. Red was for political prisoners, yellow for Jews, green for criminals, blue for foreigners, etc. My question is, what if, say, someone was both an anarchist (red triangle) and a trans woman (pink triangle). How would this be displayed?

Basically after what events was Rome considered a serious power and to who? Obviously there’s not a definitive date but if you were to dumb it down?

IE: When would say Egypt have heard about Rome for the first time and then when would they have started to consider them their equals?

To me, a repeater would seem better as it has a higher ammo count, and fire rate. So why did many soldiers use bolt actions?

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There’s lots of information on the effects on Greenland but I was wondering how the natives were effected at lower latitudes

I can't imagine nuclear reactors were known much then. Given that, when the United States started using uranium for weapons and testing did they grab a lot? Was it cheap then? Did it set off any alarm bells anywhere?

I asked this before but I didn't get an answer; My grandfather was in the army during ww2 and I was too young (7/8) to really know what he did during the war before he died and my mum doesn’t know either, just that he was deployed in Italy. Recently whilst going through some of his things we found a photo album with some of his things from that time and a lot of them have “Casarsa” 1947 written on it so I was wondering if it was relevant to his time in the war. He was in the RAF, DLI and RAOL as far as I can tell if that’s relevant.

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