Göktürk Khaganate conquers China

Kaze

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Look at the Xianbei, Mongols, Manchu - copy paste. Some foreign culture in, but assimilated by the majority until a native dynasty comes along.
 
Basically any nomadic conquest of China will end in assimilation. This is simply because China had around 60 million people and the nomads had maybe around a million. The nomadic lifestyle was also incompatible with ruling an agrarian society. The rulers will have to end their own nomadic existence, and once their descendants settle down to farm, they become Chinese.

In Europe the situation was completely different. The Romans had 7 million people in Italy but the Gauls had 6 million. The Gauls were also farmers who built walled cities. Adopting Roman ways does not require them to stop being a Gaul. And we’re not counting the other “barbarians”. Assimilation was an almost impossible task.
 
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