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>>2934162
World War 2 was probably the last time a nation could have realistically created a world empire. Now, with the US playing world police, and the huge population, mass media, it would be almost impossible unless you get another Napoleon taking control of the US in modern times or something along the lines

>>2934162
Maybe during the years where America was the only country with a nuclear weapon (1945-1949), but Americans were tired of war.

You mention the Mongols, but it seems like the Mongol empire was inherently unstable due to its size back in the days before railroads, telegraphs, etc.

It seems like it would have to be in the 19th century or later (the heyday of the British and other massive empires).

I can imagine an alternate scenario where after WWI, Russia gains control of much of the Slavic lands and all of Eastern Anatolia from the Central Powers. Larger than that and it seems remote.

>>2934199
>World War 2 was probably the last time a nation could have realistically created a world empire

I don't see WW2 creating a world empire, whichever side wins. Unless it's a bizarre scenario where the Western Allies fail so hard the Soviet take over Europe and decades later most of the world.

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>>2933786
Bump

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>>2933786
All that is irrelevant.
The crux of the matter is: how well do you know Turkish?

>>2933879
Istanbul kill-armenians killassyrians istanbul

So yeah, pretty fluent in genoci- I mean Turkish

>>2933382
Japan never threatened the United States. The whole reason the United States came down on Japan was that Japan refused to recognize the Open-Door Note. They never were any actual threat. The Pacific War was just a matter of time.

>>2933411
Im sure the people of the Philippines and the Americans who lived there appreciated Japan being a non-threat to the US.

>>2933413
Not an argument. Even the Japanese recognized they weren't any threat to the United States.

>>2933330
You mean specifically in the Mediterranean don't you?

>>2933338
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_involving_war_elephants

>>2933346
ooh, there you go:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ipsus
> Demetrius would not have been able to take his horses through the line of elephants, nor manoeuvre around such a large quantity of elephants.[30] This 'elephant manoeuvre' was the decisive moment in the battle

Well, guess threads over, eh OP? Good night I guess.

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>>2933027

Angelika Fleckinger, director of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, where Oetzi's body is on display, called on a professional to investigate. He is Detective Chief Inspector Alexander Horn of the Munich Police Department, who is also head of behavioural analysis with the Bavarian police.
He admits to being slightly taken aback at the request.

"It was a funny situation, because when I was asked by the director if I work on cold cases, I said 'yes, I do'," Inspector Horn said.

But this case was colder than most.

"The usual cold case that we have is 20 or maybe 30 years old, and now I was asked to work on a case 5,300 years old," he said.

Initially, Inspector Horn did not think he could help.

"I thought that probably the body would be in a bad condition. But what I learnt very soon was that it was in perfect condition. It's even in a better condition than some of the bodies I am working on nowadays."

As well as visiting the scene of the crime high in the Alps, the inspector was able to draw on the extensive research done on Oetzi over the last 25 years, which includes detailed analysis of his stomach contents and the injuries on his body.

Both were to prove key to Inspector Horn's theories.

"It looks a lot like a murder," he says.

cont.

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>>2933033

Apparent ambush

The killer seems to have caught Oetzi by surprise.

"Oetzi was shot probably from quite a distance, about 30m (100 ft), which is not a close-contact killing; it's a distance killing."

Inspector Horn says Oetzi seems to have been quite relaxed up on the glacier just before he was shot. His own bow wasn't ready for use.

"About half an hour before he was killed, he was having a rest up there. He was having quite a heavy lunch or meal at least, so it doesn't seem like he was in a rush or fleeing from something."
Another crucial clue came from the injury on Oetzi's right hand - a wound he received one or two days before his death, probably during a fight.

"That injury was something we would define as a classic active defence wound. That would be like if somebody... threatens you with an knife and he stabs you, if you grab into the knife and... try to push it away."

Oetzi did not suffer other defence injuries, so Inspector Horn believes he won the initial fight - which possibly took place down in the valley.

"What we think… is that the killing up on the glacier is probably the continuation of this fight that happened about one-and-a-half days before."

Knowing that he was unlikely to win in hand-to-hand combat, Oetzi's killer probably stealthily followed him up the mountain and shot him.

The glacier "is a very remote area and probably not a place where you would randomly run into each other", Alexander Horn says.

But who was the offender and what were his motives?

cont.

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>>2933037

'He got away with murder'

Inspector Horn says the offender didn't steal Oetzi's valuable copper blade axe and other gear, so it is unlikely to have been a crime for profit. He speculates that it was probably due to "some strong personal emotion".

"If there was hate, if it was jealousy, if it was revenge, we will not be able to tell you."

Angelika Fleckinger from the Museum of Archaeology says she is very happy so much progress has been made into the big mystery of Oetzi's death.

But Inspector Horn says he is still unsatisfied.

"I don't think there is a high likelihood we will ever be able to solve that case."

The offender "got away with that murder - which I don't like, being in charge of investigations," he said with a wry smile.

"I don't like the fact that we have an unsolved homicide there."

FIN

The Sermon on the Mount is recorded in the Gospel of Matthew and Luke about fifty years after Jesus allegedly gave the sermon. The Gospels of Mark and John say nothing about The Sermon on the Mount and neither do Paul, Peter or John because as the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal, the Sermon on the Mount was recorded in the Book of Enoch, at least 100 years before the supposed virgin birth of Jesus.

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>>2932989
Provide proofs.

>>2932989
yeah which Enoch says he learned in heaven FROM GOD/JESUS
Did you know Jude quotes Enoch as well? Enoch was probably at least partially true occurrences, but it neither supports nor defends either of our claims.

>>2932836

Nothing, they eat bread as a side dish.

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>>2932836
>For centuries, Jews around the world have lived with a culinary tradition based largely around bread...

NO; JEWISH CUISINE IS BASED PRIMARILY ON MEAT, AND DAIRY; BREAD IS ONE OF THE LEAST JEWISH FOODS THAT THERE ARE, BEING AN ARYAN FOOD.

>>2932871
things like cookies and dumplings also count as "bread"

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>>2932748
But was it truly frens united?

>>2932760
>frens
>united
It was a union that saw its members perpetually waging war on each other and weakening central authority at every opportunity. After Napoleon killed it, no one bothered to bring it back.

Because not everyone is equal.

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Yes? And?

>Even fucking monkeys dont divide themselves.
That is incredibly wrong. Countless animals have hierarchies and competative/mutual relationships. How do you think nature works? Animals aren't retards that try to behave and enforce "equality". That is against evolution and survival. Man itself is an ape with animalistic instincts. Beyond that, many animals have concept of property (water, food, bedding, territory, mates, basic tools in some cases). War is part of our nature too. Animals fucking fight all the goddamn time, in case you didn't know that - amongst themselves and others. Honestly, I don't know if you're pretending to be retarded with this thread. You seem like a naive "why can't get along and all be the same ;)" idiot types.

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>>2932597
...turn into this?

>better protection
>more flexibilily
>shorter weapons better fit for closer combat in wars where your opponent was at a much closer distance

just my guess desu

t. someone who doesnt know anything about war

>>2932597
>>2932604
God that's depressing, but I think it's because their armies became less of an aggressive conquering fighting force and more akin to a garrison

LMFAO

>>2932590
How did you misspell there twice for each thread?

>>2932590
It isn't, that's the point. They're a separate group from bantus anyway

>>2932321

I genuinely have no idea how anybody could think those uniforms look good. Nor do I understand the purpose in have a uniform for a political party.

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>Leave Himmler to me

>>2932328
>t.autist

It's about a sense of belonging to a group.

>>2932110
Read Kenneth Pollack's "Arabs at War".

vastly superior IQ

Money and "German" efficiency

I second this. I've never understood mass cavalry warfare. You should either spread horsemen between groups of footmen, or just horse archers.

It's a waste, in my opinion.

>>2932048
If your cavalry is superior to the enemy's, you might try to wipe out their cavalry with yours giving you undisputed mobility on the battlefield.

The enemy cavalry may just retreat if it's not cut off so it's not that easy, but then if it is pressed into a fight, it's better to charge into charging cavalry than just wait for them take the charge.

A weaker cavalry force may also end up having to defend a vulnerable part of their army, or pin down a superior cavalry force until the rest of the army can assist.

At least this is what Total War taught me

>>2932048
you use em to break through enemy lines

>>2931993
It was too far from the homelands of the Norse, and Greenland wasn't a stable enough settlement to support colonization the same way Iceland was for the settling of Greenland. There also wasn't anything to be found that would be worthwhile trading back home, except maybe lumber.

Interactions with the Natives were also antagonistic and though a suitably large army could have claimed some land and made a colony, why the hell would they? There was better land elsewhere, closer to home.

>>2932008
this basically
why bother with the effort to get to vinland when you could raid and eventually settle most of europe

>>2932008
>There was better land elsewhere

where? Russia?