[Wids]

...and why do you suppose that the show doesn't always take two combatants from the same time period? Just like playing one of Sid Meier's Civilization games, any two ancient civilizations didn't advance through progressive technologies at the same rate. Sometimes, one civilization completely left another one in the dust, and sometimes, one of the civilizations was ahead in one field of technology (such as agriculture) and lagging behind in another (such as warfare).

The show did take this into account too, since a curbstomp battle wouldn't have made for interesting TV; so the producers did indeed try to match the warriors evenly, though they did slip up a few times (which is why "William Wallace vs. Shaka Zulu" sucked). The time periods did just happen to match up at times (particularly for the modern combatants, thanks to today's global communications uniting the world and helping the world's civilizations share -- or steal -- technological advances); the West's Renaissance came around the time as the Far East's Ming Dynasty, and the martial technology between the two happened to be comparable, so "Musketeer vs. Ming Warrior" just happened to be a good match-up with similar time periods. But all in all, the combatants' respective time periods were the least concern for the show's producers.

Okay, so where are the people who actually liked the show? Speak up, peeps. O_o