Thread:ShonenChicoBoy/@comment-1493741-20151224194058/@comment-1493741-20151225220019

They won the first war, and lost none of their head officers in the conflict. The problem with them having an easy victory against the Quincy is that its harder for the Shinigami to have found themselves a "reason to fight", because an easier war would show them that their current path of bloodthirst and thuggery is correct. Its not, and they suffered major (numerical) losses as a result. Their greatest advantage is the Sekkiseki wall, which, having bottle necked the Quincy eventually turned the tide of the conflict. Even in the second war the Quincy never beat the walls, they cheated.

On Yhwach, a thousand years is a long, long time. Especially for Humanity. The United States has come a long way and its been around what, 200-some years? Quincy could easily have migrated from Israel to China and Persia from there and become fairly deep rooted, even if not as deeply as Mieszko and the Polish.