• tomi000@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      A lot actually if you really compare the technologies, also the romans could haveeasily beat any army 5 times their size from 5000 years before.

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        1 year ago

        You don’t even need 5000 years. Colonial forces regularly beat 10:1 odds against natives, and they very obviously lived at the same time. The battle of Ulundi saw the british win with 20 deaths, against a force of 15.000 Zulu warriors. Even the famous British defeat at Islandlwana saw the Zulu impi suffer tripple the British casualties.