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>>3377840
old forts were designed to be defended by a ridiculously small amount of men compared to the amount of attackers so this isnt anything that great

>>3377840
No. The 36th Sikhs fought bravely, but they all died. At worst, 21 men killed 180 and wounded many, and at best they killed give or take 450. They did delay the 10,000 Pashtuns and the British were able to defeat the rest with reinforcements.

>>3377857
>A small communication post with walls you can climb over is an impenetrable fortress that makes it easy to defend 1 against >500

Interesting, the only reason Greeks had civilization was because of proximity to the Near East, and the reason Rome thrived was because of its good position and proximity to greek Etruscans and phoenicians

The Celts already had a city in 600 BC and it was beyond the alps in S.Germany

Suck my dick you stupid Turk

>>3377837
>greek Etruscans
What am I reading

>>3377863
Forgot a ","

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Sure, portraits of their emperors

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You'll find the occasional secular or classical scene.
Here's a hunting scene from Palermo.

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And the Veroli Casket made during the Macedonian Renaissance.
It emulates classical sculpture complete with Greek mythological figures and narratives.

>>3377607
>let's just ignore the ice, tundra, plains and mountains

>>3377607
Kievan Rus and its rump-principalities were already established states before the Mongols came and subjugated them unlike Finland
If the Swedes hadn't come crusading and shit, I could imagine Novgorod might have eventually extended control over the Finns and maybe as part of Novgorod things might have turned out very differently altogether in northern Europe, who knows

Finns were never organized, whereas Russians had already had states such as Novgorod and Kievan Rus' at the time of the Mongol invasions of Europe.

You forgot to say that you're asking for a friend

>>3377550
not asking for a friend dipshit

>>3377505
hes handsome

They had to prove who the better knight was.

>>3377478
You can thank the fucking Normans and Plantagenets for the wars in-between 1202 to 1453. If William the Bastard hadn't invaded in 1066, there'd be no precedent for Britain and Gaul to go war over the middle ages because of the fact that the Kings of England were also landowners in France and owed fealty to Paris.

The wars from 1689 to 1815 are sometimes called the 2nd Hundred Years War because the English didn't trust French encroachment on the continent or in England's sphere of trade and colonization.

>>3377478
Well, SOMEONE had to stop the French.

>>3377406
The reform he was most proud of was changing the chains from iron to steel that political prisoners had to wear while they marched to the Gulags. Difference between 50 and 25 pounds. Bastard deserved to be disemboweled. The only good Imperialist is a dead one.

>>3377450
t. Levi Talmudski

Had he died in 630, he would have been remembered as Rome's ultimate savior.

Being Heraclius is suffering.

>>3377208
>>lose all of Egypt and the Levant, the richest parts of the empire
Not the same period

The East was turned into a shithole by the Sassanid-Roman Wars

>On the JUST scale of emperors he's definitely top 5.

LOL NO

Was any Emperor more JUST than Didius Julianus?

>>3377171
He's wearing a breastplate and bracers in your pic

>>3377171
>Bracers
>Fur
>ornate breast plate
>no chain mail anywhere

>>3377171
No, but if I recall correctly, coats with furry hoods were the (retarded) fashion in the 2000s (when that movie was made)
I remember every Chad at school had one (which I found retarded)

>>3377156
no the aztecs were fucked as soon as the spaniards set foot on the continent

>>3376961
Fascism as a political system is completely unsustainable. The same is true for other forms of authoritarianism (Soviet-style communism, for example). It can only exists as long as the state continues to be repressive, and that can't last forever.

No matter what Franco did, it is virtually inevitable that Spain would have liberalised by now.

>>3376998
[SNIFFING INTENSIFIES]

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>>3376961
Xavier could have been at most carlist regent, his claim to spanish throne was much weaker than alphonsine. I can't cwhyomprehend why the last duke of Madrid did not get married, what an absolute retard.

>>3376828
>>"If you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Who said it