So, basically

Japanese colonialism was more European, I'm pretty sure mongols just stole shit and rape women.

So you're saying there was a white genocide?

That would imply that there was a political conflict where there is no communication.

Fire Nation is base after Indo China/Thailand cultures and styles. The only thing Fire Nation and Japan have in common is that they want to invade a nation that FUCK HUGE.

>Earth Kingdom = China
Earth Kingdom = Han or Qin Dynasties
>Fire nation = Japan
Fire Nation = Tang Dynasty
>Water tribe = Eskimos
Water Tribes = Inuits
>Air Nomads= Tibetan monks
Air Nomads = Shaolin Monks (with a dash of Tibetan Monks)

Also;

Sun Warriors = Aztecs
Phatik = Hindu
Kiyoshi Island = Japan (but female dominant)
Swamp Tribe = Amazonian tribs + Bayou rednecks

What's the Tang dinasty?
>Kiyoshi Island = Japan
Imagine being this wrong

The water tribes don't own ALL of the water. Really they don't own any of it because they don't have a navy. They just live on some frozen islands. And all the air temples are accessible by sea except the Northern one which is just the tiniest bit inland.

The partition of corea is way after the setting of Avatar, faggot.

>What's the Tang dinasty?

Dunno. But that period is apparently what Byrke decided to base the Fine Nation's aesthetic on.

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>Earth Kingdom = China and Korea...maybe Vietnam
>Fire nation = Japan and some Imperial China
>Water tribe = Inuits
>Air Nomads= Tibetan monks
fixt

Mongols just killed a bunch of people and ruled for a while before collapsing due overextending themselves and their leaders drinking themselves to death.

Meiji Era Japan was the first nation in it's vicinity to industrialize and subsequently made war on all its neighbors with the expressed intend of establishing a colonial empire.

Fire Nation IS China culturally, but their wartime philosophy/attitudes and rapid industrialization matches Japan. They WERE going to be Japanese originally though.

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I didn't realize how small the fire nation is

the swamp water benders are vietnam

Why wasn't there a Northern Air Temple?

Obviously the fire nation is indian

avatar world is not different asia country mix together , it is more likely different dynasty .

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasties_in_Chinese_history

earth kingdom is Qing dynasty .

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty

the earth king look so much like the last emperor of china , puyi .

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyi

this is toph and katara in Manchuria hair style .

zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大拉翅

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What about Ice benders?

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Earth kingdom = Germans/Persians
Fire nation= Roman empire
Air nomad= Carthage
Water tribe= Greece and Britain

AIR NOMADS DELENDA EST

>The only thing Fire Nation and Japan have in common is that they want to invade a nation that FUCK HUGE.
Also they have a really big Navy and both colonized China/Earth kingdom

>That thread where Julius Caesar fought the entire senate in an Agni Kai

Good times

There is; you can see it on the map, just southeast of the Northern Water Tribe (it's just not colored in). It even had a whole episode devoted to it in season 1! It was where the hot air balloon inventors lived.

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>air nomad
>Carthage
Fuck, I want to see air Hannibal now

naaaaw

Fire nation seems half japan, half china also. There is a lot of chinese shit there. Only japanese thing are occasionally last names.

Earth Kingdom = Ming Dynasty
Fire Nation = Han/Tang Dynasty

Fire Nation is more like Manchuria

>Sun Warriors = Aztecs
More likely based on Khmer civilization

Manchuria puts cardboards on thier heads

This makes me think of a Rome-like show about 2 Fire Nation soldiers experiencing the leading or coinciding events in Avatar.

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Is the world flat in Avatar? Season 3 route makes no sense

>Are we the baddies?

The Fire Nation as a concept is Japan, but aesthetically it is basically Thailand with a few chinese accents.

>fire nation inevitably becomes reliant on the earth nation for imports as they control 90% of fertile/workable land
>no alternatives as the air nation consists of a bunch of useless mountains and the water nation decided to live on fucking glaciers for some reason
The fire nation did nothing wrong, pursuing autarky is perfectly acceptable given the circumstances

>Earth kingdom = Germans/Persians
You forgot Gaul

Knew I forgot something.

>Air nomad= Carthage
MOUNTAINS OF SALT

>"Et tu, Zuko/Azula"?

I liked the Indian twist in the live-action movie, but that's just about the only positive I can credit it.

THIRTEEN

I couldn't take it seriously with Aasif Mandvi because I always imagined the Firelord being Jon Stewart

What would America be? I like to think Earthbenders that developed plant-bending to harvest & farm with mixed native North and South american aesthetics: basically northern native american wardrobes but southern native american buildings & temples

>What would America be?
United Republic of Nations

there's a lot of Chinese and Thai influence on the Fire Nation as well. Check out the architecture.

>does this mean that post-war Fire Nation gets really fucking weird, makes the ATLA-equivalent to anime and fucks body pillows
I bet in their world there are shitposters comparing pic related to some dude with an Azula bodypillow on the subway asking what happened and blaming the insidious machinations of the (((Air Benders))).

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This.

>Earth Kingdom tries to take over the world via Chin the Conqueror
>but the Fire Nation is labelled the bad guys because they were actually fucking successful

Also that they're island cultures that industrialized before their peers. And the names, sometimes.

>dash of Tibetan
They literally got their shit kicked by not!China.

>No Zuko screaming "BANZAI" trying to off Aang and co.

High IQ poster.

Or maybe literal children are retarded.
Actually you're probably right considering Sokka's love of maps.

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Sure, though it's generally chinese inspired, since their written language is chinese.

>they all speak the same language
???

Don't forget
>Desert Sandbenders = Bedouins
That fucking zuko costume holy shit

Obsessed with flying bison

>senior surface-to-air missile specialist Aasif Mandvi

>"Jon, I'm standing just outside of the Northern Watertribe settlement where the valiant Fire Nation forces continue their efforts to liberate the region."

But Aasif, why are you even there? What was there to liberate? The penguin-seals?

>"We're not quite sure, but reports are coming in that they are currently holding the last remaining Air Nomad hostage. Possibly in an attempt to brainwash him into some kind of weird fish related cult."

Aasif, we also got reports that Admiral Zhao admitted to wanting to "kill the moon" in a closed meeting. Is there any truth to that?

>"No no no. Jon, we all know you cannot kill the moon. That would be crazy. You can, however, punch the fish that the moon spirit inhabits to death."

Why do airbenders own all that land if they only use the mountain peaks? Honestly the worldbuilding in Avatar is disappointingly shitty. It's unfortunate that everything good about the 2000s ended up shit during the 2010s.

Honestly a prequel set 1000 years in the past with the Air Nomads being based on the Tibetan Empire instead of the Dalai Lama would be pretty cool. Neutral firebois and water bois, with airbois bullying the shit out of the Earth Kingdom with the help of the Sandbenders (who are revealed to be a mix of airbenders and earthbenders)

>What's the Tang dynasty
>dunno lol

Kys. Everyone knows the Ming for that meme book about Zheng He the Eunuch being theoretically capable of discovering America, but you don't know about the time the Chinese tried to conquer half of Asia.

In hindsight it makes sense that the fire nation is T'ang, since the Tang nearly made Chinese Buddhism extinct with purges of the Buddhist monks.

Seems weird that nomads would even own land. Should have just called them the Air Monks and left the nomadic shit to the si wong sandbenders, and explained Aang's pre-iceberg travels as standard monk pilgrimages, like we have in the real world.
>who are revealed to be a mix of airbenders and earthbenders)
Sandbenders seem to be earthbenders who took some cues from waterbenders, the way Iroh created lightning redirection.
I am all in on corrupt-clergy-style airbender villains.

So did Shamalama make them Indian because he wishes he could shoot fire out of his hands, or because his kids like them the best, or because IT'S A TWEEST that an Indian director would make the bad guys Indian since normally you'd expect him to make the good guys Indian?

Well, thanks for being out there, Aasif, anything you'd like to leave us with before you go?

Tibet is part of China silly.

I'm betting the first two because that's basic wish fulfillment and "production notes from children" shit. The third is just dumb.

>"Yes Jon. In the off chance that a giant blue water monster kills us all, tell my wife that the box is under the cabinet. She'll know what that means."

Thanks Aasif. When we come back, we've got Aunt Wu talking about her autobiography, "Called It", don't go away!

aaaaand scene

The Avatar nations are combinations of real world nations, similar to Avatar animals.

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Congratulations. You've established something that everyone from parent to child knew since the show first aired.