The samurais coud been an empire?

Question

The samurais are known for they sword skills so i was thinking there was no other culture more trained then them and i was asking my self coud the samurais conquer the romans and the rest of europe and asia?Sory for my engle

Answer 1

Probably not. Despite their reputations, history demonstrates that the samurais, on a large enough scale, were actually pretty lazy. The last battles that samurais fought were in the civil war era. After Tokugawa established his shogunate, the samurai became a parasite class, supported by the peasants, and not doing a whole lot besides sitting around practicing swordplay and turning bushido into a byzantine set of rules. The Meiji restoration was a sigh of relief for Japan, when peasants no longer had to support their overbearing samurai masters.

The Romans, on the other hand, were glory mongerers. A man who didn't conquer anything meaningful was a man who made a wimpy politician, in their eyes. Some of Rome's biggest heros, Scipio Africanus, Pompey Magnus, and Julius Caesar, were guys who conquered vast swaths of territory. And if Rome was not conquering, then it sure as heck wasn't about to be conquered. Hannibal tried in vain to conquer Rome, rampaging around Italy, while the Romans steadfastly held the cities.

As far as the rest of Europe... If the highly motivated Romans couldn't conquer Germania, it's doubtful that anyone could have. They knew the terrain, and they were some of the most ferocious warriors who ever existed. Some Germans went into battle naked, using drugs to dull their pain and fight on. One instance reports a German warrior who kept on fighting even after he was impaled by a javelin!

And the rest of asia is doubtful as well. No one in history has been able to tame the middle east. Not the Romans, not the Europeans, and America ain't doing such a bang up job right now, either. Even Alexander the Great's conquests were only temporary. The Middle East has a long history of repulsing invaders.

And Asia proper is just freaking big. Ask Napoleon or Hitler. Invading the steppes is just asking to have your army frozen in the worst winter you could imagine.

Answer 2

I don't think so. The samurai were highly skilled and highly trained. However, they were used to fighting in individual combat, even when fighting within a group. The Romans trained and fought as a group, which would probably have been superior.

Answer 3

I don't think so. During their height, Europe was definitely using gunpowder very effectively. The one thing samurai did accomplish in Japan, they were their own class in society. That is how powerful they became over time.

Answer 4

The samurai seemed content in fighting civil wars rather than long expensive overseas campaigns to very distant lands.