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>>2738645
Wells like that are only useful in very specific circumstances also they were way to poor

>>2738645
>Shit's expensive
>Walls don't work against concentrated attacks
>Mountains/rivers/deserts/swamps work better

>build wall
>enemy takes over wall
>now you can't attack enemy but they can attack you
only works if your enemies are nomads who don't have the manpower for static fortifications

The earliest examples would probably be the Athenian Plays in which actors would act out scenes from Greek history. Many plays and transcripts survive to this day and a good amount of them are historical in nature.

full-scale battle re-enactment has been rather rare in antiquity as far as I know.

>>2738517
Probably, but not exactly, more like telling a story of what happened instead of actual reenacting

>>2738517
Every Europe/MENA nation 6th-18th century, trying to reenact Rome

Spanish cause I already know French and figure it would be useful as an American
Russian cause I like Russian literature and history
I'll dabble around with Persian like that too

Im learning Japanese because I like reading manga and Im a weeb in general. I've never tried to speak to a nip so I don't know how capable I am, but I guess I should start soon.

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>>2738467
I'm fluent in french and english, started learning latin last week in order to reach my life long goal of learning every romance language.

>>2738380
No, it was suicide.
Beautiful death, for an ideal.
He never for a moment thought it'd work.

So, yeah, autism.

>>2738380
>never actually read Mishima

just watch his short clip Patriotism instead.

>>2738124
I don't know what you mean by develop new military technology. There military changed dramatically throughout there history. Remember through most of history technological change came very slowly.

Alot if their failings in the end came from having too many powerful neighbors and they were too prone to civil war to consolidate any gains. Also, remember Byzantine Empire laster longer than almost any other state in existence.

>>2738141
>I don't know what you mean by develop new military technology

Not using gunpowder
Also reliying too much on mercenaries.

Why where mercenaries the majority of their armies?

>Also, remember Byzantine Empire laster longer than almost any other state in existence.

If they just held for another 400 years....

>>2738167
They didn't just use mercenaries. Look up the theme system. Also, .mercenaries were great soldiers for most of history. Also, the Byzantines were already in terminal decline by the time gun powder was available.

>>2737919
Because Zeus kicked his ass for doing so.

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>>2737919
The same reason Christians don't worship Satan for bringing knowledge to mankind.

Worship itself is an act of subservience to a higher power, which means valuing said power above one's own self and advancement.

>>2737919
Because Zeus would ask Poseidon to flood the world and wipe out ungrateful humanity *again*. Havent you read Bullfinch's Mythology

>>2737873
historical theories* or rumors

>>2737873
That Toby Reynolds was the Umquaa (or however you spell it) shooter.

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One of mine is: Was Marie Therese Charlotte, the daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, raped while imprisoned in the Temple after her aunt was sent away and executed? She was kept all on her own, and mentions in her memoirs that the guards would come into her room even at night and say vulgar things, so she always kept herself fully clothed and had a hard time sleeping for fear they would catch her by surprise. She told a companion after she was traded to Austria that one of the last things her aunt told her was to never let any of the guards or inspectors come in while she was in her bed.

It's not really historically or academically important, there's now way to find evidence for it, and the only time it's brought up historically is as part of the now disproven legends that she was swapped out for another woman at the Austrian border because she was pregnant after being raped. But I just wonder.

It probably is outside of Germany

>>2737586
Rise of NSDAP was due to the crisis.

>>2737634
A crisis that had much to do with communist activity I've discovered

There's a giant desert in the way.

Hardly anybody would want to cross something like the Sahara or deal with the other factors such as the diseases, wildlife, or tribal locals until better technology would become common in around the 17th century or so.

>>2736025
Dude, we're talking about Arabs. They're experts at crossing deserts. Bedouin practically live off the desert. Besides, arab traders made it as far down as Tanzania and Madagascar, the desert wasn't in their way anymore. It was just a bit further to the rivers of the Congo and its rich resource wealth.

>>2736019
Constant threat from the East and West.

some argue that the ancient non-Khazar Jews originated under his rule
he invented monotheism, and Moses was a priest that got expelled

(((YHWE))) was really just one of the Semitic deities, but they elevated him to their prime god

Glorified cheerleader

he got dick suckin lips

>>2735873
He was an American ally. Are you Russian or a Muslim?

>>2735894
Neither, I'm Arab though

>everyone on a Sumatran Absailing Board is American

>>2735868

Pompeii Graffiti

http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm

>>2735868
Dick graffiti on cave walls.

>>2735868

>>2735238
SomethinsomethingCOMMUNISMsomethingsomethingTHEORY

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>>2735238
When America and Communists became the dominant political powers.

>>2735238
>>2735261
It's true, though. Imperialism fell out of favor pretty much in line with the rise of Communism. Being anti-imperialist was one of it's most successful selling points in the early days.

Imperialism is basically the perfect example a commie could use to point out exploitation of the masses. The weaker power got exploited, the soldiers enforcing empire got exploited (to a lesser degree) and the elites sat back and watched the money and power roll in.

>>2734792
gg no re?
>t. Stalin

Ding dong the cunt is dead
Why you ask?
Stalin shat on his head
His dead corpse was fucked by Churchill
His anus, with semen, was hard to fill

Ooooooooh the cunt is deeeeeaaaaaad

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I'm genuinely sad he wasn't captured alive, Soviets should have sent some commandos a la Otto Skorzeny to do it.

>>2733511
We generally don't make memorials for criminals.

>>2733511
Russia doesn't like to be reminded that they were literally Nazis.

>>2733524
>t. kulak fascist