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>>3392330
>people attending of their own volition
>vs people attending because they're in the army and their commanders told them that's what they were doing that day

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You do realize any American president could do that if he made it mandatory for a good amount of soldiers to show up? Correct?

>>3392330
People would go see everything to not be bored before the invention of TV and internet.

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>>3392107
It's not.

I tried to watch it but got annoyed when they just played the same track a hundred times and made him seem like a messiah

>>3392125
That's what happens when you make 1 guy make a 5 hour movie by himself

>>3392090

It's worth $1. Don't spend it all at once!

>>3392101
Lol

>>3392101
The silver alone is worth like 14$

The rest of Europe

>>3392060
He had them imported from Middle-East.

>>3392069
Where? How?

>>3391773
UGLY

In our ancestry there are traces of possibly viking blood, and as such, we are enjoying a cultural festival of celebration of viking history and culture.

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that's exactly how I imagine "german/nordic" american looks like

>>3391740
>takes 2000 years for their philosophy to catch up with eastern thought

>literally a revisionism of ME civilization
Hmm...

>>3391759
I'm a brainlet, what's ME civilization?

>>3391611
No, I play wargames that are actually good.

When I was 12

>>3391617
I bet you're a blast at parties.

>>3391520
The amount of butthurt whoever drew the original version of that pic had must be enormous

>>3391481
Using 88s as anti-tank

>>3391501
They were designed for dual purpose from the beginning.

The difference is that Italians advanced 40 miles and Rommel advanced 400 miles.

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The group surveyed and used a metal detector to cover an area of 20 meters (65 ft.) around the sword’s discovery location. No indications of human remains, the sword grip cover of bone, wood or leather (which would have not been preserved in those conditions anyway), nor any other artifacts were found. Thus, there is a mysterious air about the sword and how it came to be left in such a desolate location.
Secrets of the Ice suggest a possible, though still curious, explanation: “This could suggest that the person who left behind the sword was lost, maybe in a snow blizzard. It seems likely that the sword belonged to a Viking who died on the mountain, perhaps from exposure. However, if that is indeed the case, was he traveling in the high mountains with only his sword? It is a bit of a mystery… As it is now, his remains are long gone, and only the sword bears witness to the drama that happened here more than one thousand years ago.”

http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/hunters-find-striking-viking-sword-isolated-high-altitude-norway-008760

>>3391382
Or the hunter is a fucking liar about where he found it.

>>3391382
could it not have been left on the mountain as an offering to the gods?

>>3391307
>be me
>be young lil godling
>my dad keeps cannibalizing my siblings because he's worried we'll turn on him (lol)
>I grow up and cut his dick off

>be me, a long time later
>now i'm worried like dad was. lastborn son might turn on me
>without a dick, how will I fuck all the mortal women?
>time to impregnate my forehead

Just to be clear, Zeus was never meant to be likable, right?

hes a bit of a weirdo

>>3391230
What would you expect them to do about it?

>>3391230
95% of the population was peasant farmers or slaves, they didn't really give a shit if some town didn't exist anymore

>>3391274
I think his point was why didn't Rome experience a post 9/11 esque shift in thought.

Which is dumb because the Romans already had beliefs about how fickle and powerful nature was. This just kind of proved that world view

>>3391157
bump for interest
I'd think it would be very localized, i.e. mostly intra-town/city

>>3391157
I don't have answers either but to me this is one of the most fascinating aspects of history.

I have read a bit about how the inca empire functioned, and its fascinating.

A large part of the population was conscripted into work crews that moved around working on construction projects or farming, and they lived in workers baracks that were remarkably uniform across the empire.

Newly conquered people were quickly assimilated into this system.

Also apparently most resources were distributed through a system of warehouses run by a central bureaucracy.

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How the fuck did ancient tax collection work?

Just tell the tax collector you don't have any money lmao

I think the most accessible starting point for learning about the ISI, especially as an American, is Season 4 of Homeland. Where the Americans leverage technology, complexity and money, the ISI is shown to be yet more cunning, capable, and ultimately victorious.

For instance, for the US to conduct a drone strike, it needs to coordinate a number of assets on the ground, in a command center and perhaps even legal representatives. There are often political and personal intrigues that undermine the US's own efforts in these far away places. But these are also trained professionals, people who are very good at their jobs, even if their roles have been designed by people who could sooner imagine the machine elves than life in the NWFP.

Meanwhile, the ISI can pay a peasant a pittance to enroll in a US training program and gun down some expensive US special forces soldiers.

Consider too that life is very cheap in Pakistan, at least as far as the military and ISI are concerned. You'll never run out of martial-blooded Pajeets to send at the Yankee super soldiers.

Whole place needs to be fucking destroyed but yes the ISI is formidable, Homeland is not a good source.
Zia's ISI took the US and Saudi billions and actually engineered the destruction of the soviet union in Afghanistan. Since then they actually have a robust service fit for the modern world, the same isn't true of those we still think of as great powers.

>>3391029
25 year rule buddy
>>>/pol/

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I'll bump with some pictures.

>>3390959
Whatever you want it to be, then work backwards and make up some stuff.