Pretty sure 200 spaniards killed 20,000 Incans once with sword and big boom
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No it is not, as evidence by the few Battles where the Spanish actually faced the Aztecs in the field, and killed hundreds of them for every Spanish man lost.
Steel is just much harder and lighter, than the the weapons the Aztecs had, and cut through their defensive vests a lot easier than their own weapons.
If the Aztecs had Steel, or even Bronze, the Spanish would likely had lost the invasion. Metal is a HUGE advantage, in warfare.
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I think the devs are going to release another Indian faction for southern India in some expansion anyway (like the Chola or the Vijayanagara), so I wouldn’t make a big fuss about it.
That’s weird, I always thought that the commonly accepted ending for the Middle Ages was the fall of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire.
Why?? Iberian kingdoms joined both worlds and did most of the maps. We all know that Americans were there but they were isolated. If they added 8 americans civs it would be fine to be balance, but thats not the case. They have done a great job with that civs, always there will be ppl complaining and they cant add the whole globe.
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There is a place where steel rusts even easier than in rainforests, and that’s in the high ocean. What did the Europeans do? They coated their swords in black paint and the problem was solved.
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Exactly. Steel already take quite the long time to rust, and there are several treatments one can apply to slow down the process even more.
Metal can also be forged or cast into many new different forms, which combined with it’s hardiness, already makes it much better than Silex, Obsidian and Jade. On top of that, it is actually lighter, too.
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and rusty sword is still useable 
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Depends on how rusty it is, actually. If it is too degraded, it will crumble. if it just has some rust, it can still hold an edge, or at most it becomes a very hard and nimble club, to maul people with.
If it has just a little, it becomes more dangerous.
Yest, yes it does.
People used to urinate on their War Arrows, which would cause the iron tips to rust quickly, but also allow for double the chance of infection.
Never underestimate what tetanus can do on an open wound! It actually caused more casualties after the battles were done, than non-infected Arrows ever could.
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In the middle ages, China already had a system of examination and selection of talents. It had the world’s first university and the first country in the world to use paper money. The city was huge, the people’s life was very rich, and the country was very rich. Song Dynasty accounted for 65% of the global GDP. There were all kinds of great inventions. At the same time, Europe was stagnant, relatively backward, and still fighting against the black death. What else was there in Europe? Not to mention the middle ages, the earlier Qin Dynasty unified the six countries and used more than one million troops, while the war troops of small European countries were more than tens of thousands? In history, China’s civil war was very short, and unification could be achieved soon. Chinese civilization could last for thousands of years, which was deeply influenced by Qin’s thought of unification. It had always been the goal and ideal to unify China. It’s easy to understand what you said about the rapid development of gunpowder in Europe, because small European countries have been constantly at war, warlike and annexing each other, and they attach great importance to the development of weapons. Basically, China is a unified power. It does not need to fight everywhere and is not easy to fight. The Chinese have always believed that Mongolia is China’s territory. Historically, the Mongolian nationality is also one of China’s 56 nationalities. The Chinese do not regard Mongolian history as foreign history. Without the military intervention of the Soviet Union, Mongolia could not be independent from China. The time that Mongolia occupied Song Dynasty was less than 80 years, which was very short for Chinese history. It was soon beaten back to Mongolian grassland by Ming Dynasty. Don’t think that Mongolia’s 80 years were like defeating the Song Dynasty for thousands of years, and Mongolia’s western expedition was less than 300 years old. Ming’s fleet is very powerful. I don’t understand why the shipbuilding technology of Europe and the Middle East in the 13th century is more advanced than that of China. You should learn more about the history of the world, especially the history of East Asia, which is much more powerful than that of other places. Before the industrial revolution, East Asia was the existence of world hegemony. Before the industrial revolution, there was a big gap between Europe and East Asia. We should not take the western power of modern centuries as an example and think that Europe has always been powerful.
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University of Bologna is the oldest university in the world, not one in China. And if China was so far ahead of Europe, how did Europe," Get ahead" of China within a few centuries?
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To be precise, Bologna is the oldest continuously operative University in the world.
The oldest, first ever University in the world was the Pandidakterion of Constantinople. A Byzantine University, established in the 5th century.
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I don’t know. I’m not an expert. Perhaps Europeans will doubt that it took China 40 years of reform and opening up to rejuvenate so quickly, and it is so close to the world’s first GDP that it has changed the world pattern and realized its own rules.
Nope, oldest University in the world, is at Bologna, Europe. it was the first ever.
So did the Byzantines, and the Carolingians.
Charlemagne even had his own War Elephant, Abul-Abbas, which was a gift to him from the Caliph, because of how learned all his noblemen were, in all things civil and military, which the Caliph found impressive.
Black Death, which came from China, and is therefore not Europe’s fault. And no, Europe was not stagnant or backwards, it basically invented 36 types of Glass, a theory on internal combustion engines, created schools for the children of merchants and nobles, aswell as well-off serfs in the cities, all while in the times of the Black Death.
Sounds sloppy. Byzantium managed to almost reconquer the entirety of the old Roman territory, with 130.000 troops alone. The Qin needed a million? Sounds like the commanders were incompetent, or corrupt!
Yet it never did. There have been numerous version of China, that while calling themselves China, have been ruled and aculturized by foreign peoples.
Nope. It was constantly breaking up and going to war against itself. Anyone that knows Chinese History, knows that “unified China” is a modern invention from the CCP.
Historically, China is renown for vast and long lasting Civil Wars.
Only after the Mongols conquered China. Before that, they were “foreign devils” and “northern barbarians”.
Which is why they lost to colonizing powers, all the time, right?
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You forgot to add brutal to that list of adjectives. In most of China’s civil wars the number of military and civilian casualties would be in the millions.
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Again, sloppy with the conquering.
Chinese believed in quality in numbers, which is why they fell behind, slowly but steadily.
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I think you are forgetting that the “spaniards”, HAD THE HELP of 100,000 WARRIORS OF VARIOUS DIFFERENT TRIBES. 
As it turns out. Ripping out the hearts of your enemies, and intentionally gfoing to war FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE of RIPPING OUT THE HEARTS OF YOUR ENEMIES WHILE THEY STILL LIVE, SO THAT YOU CAN SACRIFICE THEM TO YOUR SUN GOD… Is, in fact, NOT actually a very good way to endear yourself to others. 
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The Spanish still did have a disproportional kill rate themselves, because they could easily hurt the Aztecs with their Steel weapons, while the Aztecs had a lot of trouble doing anything to the Spanish, behind their Breastplates and Chain Doublets.
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