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The main frame story concerns Shahryār, whom the narrator calls a "Sasanian king" ruling in "India and China".[6] He is shocked to learn that his brother's wife is unfaithful; discovering that his own wife's infidelity has been even more flagrant, he has her killed. In his bitterness and grief, he decides that all women are the same. Shahryār begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning, before she has a chance to dishonour him. Eventually the vizier, whose duty it is to provide them, cannot find any more virgins. Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter, offers herself as the next bride and her father reluctantly agrees. On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade begins to tell the king a tale, but does not end it. The king, curious about how the story ends, is thus forced to postpone her execution in order to hear the conclusion. The next night, as soon as she finishes the tale, she begins (and only begins) a new one, and the king, eager to hear the conclusion of this tale, postpones her execution once again. So it goes on for 1,001 nights.

The tales vary widely: they include historical tales, love stories, tragedies, comedies, poems, burlesques, and various forms of erotica. Numerous stories depict jinns, ghouls, apes,[7] sorcerers, magicians, and legendary places, which are often intermingled with real people and geography, not always rationally. Common protagonists include the historical Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, his Grand Vizier, Jafar al-Barmaki, and the famous poet Abu Nuwas, despite the fact that these figures lived some 200 years after the fall of the Sassanid Empire, in which the frame tale of Scheherazade is set. Sometimes a character in Scheherazade's tale will begin telling other characters a story of his own, and that story may have another one told within it, resulting in a richly layered narrative texture.

>>3230578
Arabian nights, correct? Awesome stories!

There is a a tale I Vienna about a being called "Basilisk". A rooster laid an egg, wich a frog hatched. The story basically goes. Some guy wants to go to the fountain to get some water. He then notices a foul stench coming from it. He saw something glitter there and after he told everyone about it a proud Bakerboy decided to go down. He went down the fountain only to be pulled up screaming. He told everyone about seeing a being with the shape of a rooster, a repitlian like tail, "frog" like legs and a crown on its head. The village elder ,or something close to that, told everyone it was a Basilisk, like above said laid by a rooster etc. He said that his breath was poisonous and that the only way to stop it would be for it to see its hideous self. So the baker boy went down with a mirror. The Basilisk saw itself and died due to it`s irritation and rage. Afterwards they threw stones down the fountain and everything was normal.

>>3230451
thats pretty good. fingerless gloves not so much, but, I'm not an expert, either. Alot of the fancy shit would probably get dropped and the joints are a mess, I mean, look at his shoulders. pauldrons need to give better coverage but it seems ok otherwise.

>>3230349
god is mean

>>3230349
He tipped his verbal fedora

>>3230349
based

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>>3230331
What do you expect from fucking commies.
Zhuyin is superior, hell even the Wade–Giles is superior to the Pinyin bullshit.

>>3230331
Romanisation cannot reproduce the actual pronunciation of Chinese with 100%, especially in a language such as English where there can sometimes be a great divide between the written and the spoken word.

>>3230423
Yet Chinese is taught in Pinyin everywhere except Taiwan.

Even my Chinese teacher in college, who is from Taiwan, use Pinyin.

>>3230287
>Europe started sucking after the two world wars
Take a guess.

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Why do my shitty boring threads never get replies :(

>>3230761
Because MODS don't do their work and delete the bait threads.

I remember reading that some of them got castrated and became servants in mosques.

>>3230251
they would press a good amount of them into service of the army, they were called Ghulam.

It the unsullied in game of thrones are based on them

>>3230251

The biggest and arguably most important difference is overwhelming presence of castration. In American slavery, slave-owners actually wanted their slaves to produce children because it was a cheap way to acquire more slaves without having to go all the way to Africa and back. However, for Islamic slavers, Africa wasn't a very distant location, so they almost always castrated African slaves to keep them from becoming too numerous to control.

He is a bad historian, he gets a lot of stuff wrong

>>3230006
He's all right.

But Niall Ferguson isn't right about things as much as Nial Fergunson thinks.

>>3230015
just cause he doesn't suck left wing dick doesn't make him a bad historian

>>3229930
>Louis Capet
Louis de Bourbon*

Capetians were never faggots even less blond haired blue eyed faggots

>Louis Capet

God, revolutionaries were retarded.

>>3229930
Capet ? Are you mentally challenged ?

>>3229928
>t. sufi

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I think you'll find it was me who bequeathed thee OP

>>3229893
I browsed it a couple of times but never made an account. At least as of a few years ago, there were an enormous number of people who would proudly declare that something or other was "logistically impossible", usually in the process demonstrating they have no idea what logistics is, other than a vague way to appear smart on internet arguments.

>>3229893
It's filled with 4chan dweebs obsessed with Confederacy and Nazi ATLs. You guys have been fucking up the forum for 3 of the past 6 years on.

If I ever wanna read alt-his, or at least look at alternate maps/flags, it's the best place to go
also some of the threads that are just proposing scenarios or asking what would happen/how to get to this situation have interesting insight

the moderation seems a little hardline (I see a lot of banned users), though i'm not sure why, or if it's actually beneficial to having a smooth-running forum

i don't like the fact that most ATLs seem to be written in the style of a story...like I get it's all fantasy, but i'm not here to read your historical fan-fiction

>yes, I post. no, I never finish my TLs.

>>3229866
lul

>>3229866
Yes, only white racists say otherwise.

>>3229866
It's "A" peak of a cattle based pastoralist/agropastoralist society much like Mongols were for their pastoralist counterparts in Eurasia.

I imagine if they had the time we'd see such development amongst equestrian nations in the Great Plains.

>>3229825
At a guess it's some kind of generic Ethiopian armed forces patch. It has an anchor, rifles, and wings, so I'm guessing it's not a specific branch.

>>3229825
Looks like it's attached to some sort of jacket

Whatever it is, it's something to do with St Mark. I'd assume it's Venetian

>>3229759
stop overcomplicating romance and being unnecessarily unsatisfied

she wanted a breeding bull and her betabux to dutifully wear the chastity cage and wait in the cuck shed