Why did the Persians try to invade Armenia more than they did any other Roman territory?
>>3262819
Many Zoroastrians there. The Armenian nobility is basically Iranian. Close proximity.
>>3262819
>try
I always find modern Armenia's relatively good relations with Iran amusing. Its like the Turks beat them so hard they went crying to anyone who was even slightly less abusive, ie Russia and Persia.
>>3262819
Armenians were seen as kinsmen by the Persians in the same way they saw other Iranian people as part of the family of Aryans. On top of that, even when Armenia became nominally majority Christian, there was always a rather huge number of Armenian Zoroastrians there. And historically even around the time of the Achaemenids if not the Medes before them, the Iranians have had a large influence on their culture.
>>3262905
I mean, this isn't really true in the context you are saying here. Armenia was always seen as a country/nation/state/people that had a lot in common with the Iranians. It produced a lot of good horse breeds, Armenians always had major influence and standing in the Achaemenid, Arsacid, and Sassanian dynasties and many powerful Armenian Zoroastrians were part of the Wuzargan. You could also find that Armenians were the largest ethnic group in the Iranian empires military after Iranians themselves.
Even going into the Safavid, Afrashid, and Qajar period they had decent relations.
What can /his/ tell me about Emperor Meiji
>>3262727
Smart man. Knew not to fuck with America.
>>3262727
>What is the best part of Meiji
LEFTYPOL BTFO
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Treason_Incident
Why can't socialists into Japan when capitalists did very well in post-meiji Japan?
>>3262727
He liked to wrestle and kick ass.
Can anybody give me a recap on this guy?
He said something once and people quote it everytime you talk about the Polish-Llithuanian Commonwealth
>>3262604
He didn't like to sleep it seems.
worked a lot of people
Redpill me on Spengler, was he right? He predicted the rise of populism 100 years after his death.
>walt basically had to tell him he was heisenberg
No, he was a dipshit.
>>3262593
Populism always has and always will be a thing. "Predicting it" is about as impressive as Nostradamus predicting that floods and famines will happen in the future.
I don't really understand what is meant by decline. If we use the example of Rome, it seems like all the "degenerate" stuff was all around the end of the republic and the early empire, when the projected their power as far as it would go. Even when Rome fell, it was the austere west that collapsed and the decadent east that survived.
What if the Byzantine Empire survived the expansion of Islam and made it to at least 1914 ?
>>3262534
It collapses to nationalism and nothing changes at all.
>Byzaboos still exist
>>3262535
It could but I think theres a different WWII with the Byzantines and Russians allying against the British,French,Spanish,and whatever Germany is in that timeline.
I've heard a lot of people compare America to Rome, but what if...
>America = Carthage
>Russia = Epirus
>China = Rome
Hear me out:
>America lets business interests dictate its foreign policy even when they contradict the general interests of the country, like Carthage.
>America helped sent aid to China later in the Cold War, like Carthage sent aid to Rome during the Pyrrhic war.
>Russia is one of the last great European powers, just like Epirus was one of the last great Greek states.
>>3262425
No.
>>3262425
Hmm, that's interesting, you have any more evidence to reinforce this theory even more?
>>3262425
Russian """"""Empire"""""""
What did army group A do while the battle of stalingrad raged? Stayed at one place? Why didn't they advance? The last date I can find that is portraying their situation is november 18 1942 when they already occupied large territories in the caucasus. So what happened?
>>3262347
I've never really looked into it in any depth, but Uranus would have made their position completely untenable, with the securing flank to their north crumbling like old mortar. I imagine they retreated across the Crimean peninsula or towards Rostov, since I never heard about them being wiped out. But like I said, I never checked into it in any detail.
>>3262361
Also exactly how many men were there in the caucasus on the soviet's side? Maybe there were inadequate german manpower
>>3262403
Your map mentions 8 armies; by 1942, I believe Soviets were averaging 6 divisions to an army, so we're talking 48ish divisions and about 10,000 men to an average division; so a bit under half a million.
But of course the divisions were not likely at full strength, and if they had cavalry and armor formations, these would be somewhat smaller, I'm sure an assemblage that large would have more than just infantry formations. I'd guess in the 380,000ish range, but again, I'm just working on general knowledge of Red Army operations and applying it to a specific instance here rather than doing real research.
>don't mind how people view you because we all die and none of will be remembered eventually
>but remember to act justly and be a good person etc...
what did he mean by this?
Why does it matter how we act if he also asserts how little it matters how others act?
Because the brief moment of living is more enjoyable if you act justly and be a good person.
Beating, torturing and occasionally genociding minority cultures is really stressful.
thats their problem, not yours
>>3262197
What few people know is that Mark Aurels meditations were never meant to be published.
The book is basically just notes he wrote to himself.
How united could South America have become? I'm somewhat familiar with Gran Colombia, but could any of the other states have united?
>>3262184
>United
>South America
Bwahahaha the entire history of South America in the early modern to post modern age is civil wars, coups, and revolutions.
Pic related
If it weren't for the early death of Huayna Capac it would be less conflictive.
Actually it should be more divided. I mean, i dont know how Brazil keep its union.
As for unification in the past, impossible. too much bad blood between pretty much most of south america.
The best you can get is what we have now, a somewhat aligned Union of South American Nations (with the exception of Venezuela), which is pretty much modeled around the EU, using the already existing structure of the Andean and the Mercosur tradeblocs and common currency and freedom of travel could be implemented as early as 2019
Stop lyiing
If I had my fingers crossed then I'm not really lying.
stop abstracting morality from ordinary experience
>>3262041
What were the most disastrous battles in history? The ones with the most catastrophic losses for both sides. Were there many notorious examples before modern warfare?
Hannibal's victories were notorious although his army escaped fairly unscathed
Battle of Heraclea and the Battle of Aculum
>>3261896
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad
Any good Military-Battlefield Docs about the 2003 Iraq war?
It must have a animations like pic related to show the actual battles taking place.
The 20th Century Battlefields Documentary by the BBC did a brilliant cover of the Gulf War which showed you exactly where the battles took place and with how many units - I'd recommend everyone to check it out.
>>3261873
Just watch Generation Kill TBQH.
>>3261886
This desu
Name a more iconic duo
Why didn't Hannibal just use boats to transport his army to Italy?
You try getting elephants on boats.
>>3261585
Getting elephants onto a boat sounds much easier than getting them to climb over mountains.
>>3261581
Rome had a huge advantage on the sea following the 1st Punic war and the wholesale destruction of the Carthaginian fleet there. If he tried to embark a force, there's every chance that it would be intercepted and wiped out en route; like that reinforcement attempt that Appian mentions.
Back in the day people just had to work the land and they got some food, maybe a house, or in the case of nomads just move, etc but somehow people always had something to subsist
From the industrial society onwards it seems that mass unemployment becomes a thing with people who cannot fit into the job market, with the continuous automatization that eliminates jobs and now also with technocrats and corpos forcing rural people into the cities where they end killing themselves or end on crack/prostitution
Is it a modernist problem? How was it before?
>>3261362
>but somehow people always had something to subsist
Actualy, no. Not everyone who worked the land owned land, and I'm not talking about serfs. Rural laborers hired by owners of hugue amounts of land existed and, in some places of europe and the world, were the majority of working men. The life as one of this laborers was harsh as they needed to be constantly looking for work and often starved because they weren't hired.
>>3261362
>but somehow people always had something to subsist
If you ignore all the hundreds of millions of people who starved to death and the billions of people that died to preventable diseases then yeah it was a time of plenty. The idea that everything just werked and fell into place before the steam engine came and made everything too complicated is dumb. Stop romanticizing the past.
>>3263112
>Stop romanticizing the past.
Seems like a nerve was touched