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>>3251677

because shes white. New Orleans is shit and a while ago some dindu actually wanted to erase all fleur di lis from the city, even though they are EVERYWHERE, because they are racist to.

New Orleans is filled with poor stupid black people and hipster immigrants from seattle

>>3251677

They probably think she fought Muslims

They should have just gassed the south, black and white, after the Civil War. These half measures obviously weren't enough

>>3251572
They're both bad because any ideology that requires killing to further itself isn't a very good ideology.

by nodding your head and not having a who was more evil contest

>>3251572
"not true" easy as that.
Whoever said that killing was the nazi ideology?
More POWs and civilians died due to the soviets advancing and not the other way around.
>>3251577
Basically any ideology in the world you naive mong. killing is essential. killing is natural.

>>3251236
>everyone in Asia

>Persia
I can tell you how the Persian empire fell. It was because the newly crowned Darius was seen as illegitimate because the previous king was poisoned. The local satraps didn't trust the new king.

>India
Alexander the Great's army was shaken up by a minor Indian king. Alexander the Great's army equaled the Indian king Porus too if not, outright outnumber Porus's army. The Greater Nanda Empire would have been just east of Porus' kingdom and they would have dwarfed Porus's army by factor of 10.

Although Porus lost the battle, he won the war. He prevented Alexander from taking over his empire, and instead gained lots of new land from him.

Professional standing armies that utilize combined arms are the exception and not the norm in the ancient world. Alexander can thank his father for having the best heavy infantry and cavalry in the world.

He was also blessed with some of the best commanders of his day. You cannot simply be the only "great man" in a civilization, he had great generals, great sub commanders, great strategists, great politicans back in Macedon.

Eumes and the Silver Shields
Antipater as the head minister back in Macedon proper
Lysimachus, Cassander, Ptolemy...
Even his body guards would end up with some reknown after his death

Alexander was Micheal Jordan but he also had the Scottie Pippins and Dennis Rodmen to make him really shine.

He had the world all stars who were all fiercely loyal to him.

Darius is an illegtimate heir as the previous anon mentioned but I would still say he was a capable man in Persia. But he was working with far worst conditions and committed to battles that were to the Macedonian strength.

>>3251236
i am confuse
is that guy slav or not?

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>>3251207
They even used Nazi helmets, weapons, and uniforms.

>>3251207
East Germany was basically a Strasserist state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CyPjQQTAM

Doesn't look like such a bad place, was it really as bad of an oppressive police state as Western media likes to make it out to be?

Somebody tell me something or anything.
This topic is never touched on this board, and I'd assume a lot of you guys know a thing or two about it.

I wish there was more information but most of it was deliberately destroyed by slims.

Thanks, slims

>>3252883
The problem is that all the really great civilizations of that time were in nearby Mesopotamia and they overshadow the ones on the Arabian Peninsula. I don't even know how much actual scholarship there is on them, much less where to read about it for a good overview with notes on where to get more info and even primary sources.

>>3251179
Rome.

>free monuments
A building you want to build ASAP, but can't fit into your order. A building that lets you get early governments much faster, and this their production bonuses.
>free roads
Quick movement between cities, extra gold early on from domestic trade routes.
>unique swordsman
A core military unit you would be building anyways, except even better. Also has capability to build its own shit, so you don't need to take a worker on campaigns.
Build early encampments, get 1-2 great generals (they stack) and your unique swordsmen will have enough combat strength to one-shot spearmen and archers.
>unique aqueduct district
Housing translates to science and production, growing your cities is very strong, and Rome grows their cities very quickly thanks to this thing. Also allows them to plant productive cities in places where other civilizations couldn't, as they would get housing locked.

Overall a very good, fun, and fair civ. Not as good as the broken Scythians and Summerians, but as far as balanced goes, this is on the top side of balance.

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>>3251192
Why Sumerians are broken? Never played them.

>>3251204
They start the game with the ability to build the War Cart. It is a Heavy Cavalry category unit, and since its from Age 0, it has 0 gold per turn maintenance (unit maintenance is determined by which era a unit is unlocked).
It will be the most powerful unit on the field for a whole age, and will be usable for the next age too.
You can build a bunch (no maintenance lol), fight and win with them to make up for the turns "waster" building soldiers instead of infrastructure, and then upgrade these experienced veteran troops along the Heavy Cavalry tree.

This alone is enough, since it allows Sumeria to take out a couple of nearby city states, or wherever their neighbor expands, or take his capital even. Stealing stuff others built is more efficient than building yourself - if you build for 50 turns you have 50 turns worth of stuff, if you make soldiers and fight, you have 50 turns worth of other people's stuff, and an experienced army next to it.

>>3251008
Because real life isn't a video game, there is a cost to keeping the army in arms, there is a cost to marching them around, there is a cost to having land very far away from your core cities, and you don't want to pay any of these costs unless the land you gain is really good.

>>3251014
So you're saying the "mighty" t*Rks were defeated by homesickness? Wow...

>wanting desert instead of more European land wich is worth something

>>3250502
The independence of their American colonies and the Spanish-American War

>>3250502
The retarded management of all their colonies, they were all gibs me dat and never showed any desire of improvement over them.

Inflation, economic stagnation, and poor economic policy that caused the population to stagnate.

>>3250418
Yes getting BTFO non-stop for centuries and losing all prestige was very clever.

Yes

1. Join the most numerous side
2. Watch allies fight
3. Take credit for victory

Worked in the War of Spanish Succession, Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War, WW1 and WW2

>>3250424
When did they get btfo in this time period, other than arguably the American War of Independence?

>>3250381
Google

>>3250381
First Reich
>H
>R
>E
Second is pre-WW1 Germany

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>holy
>roman
>empire
and
>unified
>german
>empire

>>3250277
Outside of their naval and air arms they were kiiiiinda shit, anon
that being said, the soko sagyo ki was pretty cool

>>3250277

We live in a world filled with small minds who think that nothing is worth appreciating unless it was "the best." These dullards would have us believe that people such as Richard Nixon and Huey Long should be of no interest because of their flaws, whereas true patricians know that flawed heroes are the most interesting.

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>>3250277
The were pretty aesthetic.

>>3250246
i dont get it

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>>3250249
Dogs don't like vacuums anon, they're scared of them.

Here's one:

So three Germans walk into a BAR

>>3250579
>germans
The joke goes better if you say "krauts" or something to that effect

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>>3250100
Because there's always a steady influx of shitposters from /pol/, /b/ and /int/ who flood the board with bait threads about their favorite subjects.

>>3250100
Not all "What if" threads are bad, some are pretty neat thought experiments. We had one a couple of weeks ago about Operation Downfall that was really good.

I was actually thinking about starting a thread about how the Tokugawa could have remained in power, a "What if the Meiji Restoration never happened?" thread, but then I started reading a book instead. I might do it a little later.

Be the change you want to see, anon.

>>3250100
>complains about shit threads
>drakeposting
bottom barrel

>>3249976
What's this?

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>yfw this explains everything about the whole world as a whole and each of these cultures individually

The Linear-active group is easily identified. It comprises: the English-speaking world – North America, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, and Northern Europe, including Scandinavia and Germanic countries.

The Reactive group is located in all major countries in Asia, except the Indian sub-continent, which is hybrid.

The Multi-actives are more scattered: Southern Europe, Mediterranean countries, South America, sub-Saharan Africa, Arab and other cultures in the Middle East, India and Pakistan and most of the Slavs. Though these cultures are wildly diverse, geographically and in their religions, beliefs and values, they can be categorised as a group, as behaviourally they follow the same pattern with the following traits and commonalities: emotion, talkativeness, rhetoric, drama, eloquence, persuasion, expressive body language, importance of religion or creed, primacy of family bonds, low trust societies, unpunctuality, variable work ethic, volatility, inadequate planning, capacity for compassion, collectivism, relationship-orientation, situational truth, dislike of officialdom, tactility, sociability, nepotism, excitability, changeability, sense of history, unease with strict discipline

NB While the three types are distinctive, each possesses behavioural elements from the other two categories. It is a question of which one is dominant. Many individuals deviate from the national type in a work situation e.g. engineers and accountants tend to be Linear, sales people Multi-active, lawyers and doctors Reactive.

>>3249976
>Lewis, after visiting 135 countries and working in more than 20 of them, came to the conclusion that humans can be divided into 3 clear categories, based not on nationality or religion but on BEHAVIOUR. He named his typologies Linear-active, Multi-active and Reactive.

Sounds like shit.

>>3249946
Jungles are terrible places to grow crops; did you skip the entirety of school?

>>3249951
Sorry but I don't follow your logic. You put a seed in the ground and it grows. Leftists are trying to say that this isn't the case in Africa when there are jungles clearly proving otherwise.

>It's commonly said that Africa has bad soil and no arable land

That is not commonly said or even said at all because historically most Africans supported themselves by farming.