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>>2658517
>Indirectly gave us Tacos
Thanks Hispania

Proved that sailing from Europe to China, while an enormous pain in the ass, is possible.

>>2658517
Proved that Europeans are actually not that bad at making swords out of Damascus steel.

>>2658234
>favorite emperor
Theodosius
>Julian
May he rest in piss
>I get a chubby for philosopher kings.
No need to tell us, I could already tell you're a sodomite

>>2658234
Augustus/Octavian Caesar
>inb4 meme Emperor
He was a carbon copy of Julius, but even better. He set the bar for emperors that was only met by a few. Also, he kicked Marc Antony's ass

Vespasian, ends the year of 4 emperors and attempts to stop any more civil strife.

>inb4 urine tax

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I would

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say so

Ignore the skin color and take note of the fish lips on the negro

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>>2657382
gonna post some favorites

1/??

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>>2656416
stoicism is based but that space elf in star trek ruined it

>Stoics:
>>2656416
>Don't let your emotions control you.

>also stoics:
>"I SPILLED LENTILS ON MYSELF IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE I'M GONNA RUN AND HIDE AND CRY BECAUSE OF HOW SHAMEFUL IT WAS"

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>>2656416
You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power--how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference? To live--is not that just endeavoring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different? And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature, to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist that it shall be Nature "according to the Stoa," and would like everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal glorification and generalism of Stoicism! With all your love for truth, you have forced yourselves so long, so persistently, and with such hypnotic rigidity to see Nature FALSELY, that is to say, Stoically, that you are no longer able to see it otherwise-- and to crown all, some unfathomable superciliousness gives you the Bedlamite hope that BECAUSE you are able to tyrannize over yourselves--Stoicism is self-tyranny--Nature will also allow herself to be tyrannized over: is not the Stoic a PART of Nature?

>>2653509

Germany should have been sterilized and replanted with trees tbqh.

>>2653524
There are Unironically a lot of modern Germans who hate themselves enough that they want their country to just die. It's really fucking weird.

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Germany should have dismembered and the G*rmans mass-deported out of Europe after the war. Once in the Americas/South Africa/whatever they should have been forcibly assimilated into their new countries.

Keeping a good deal of well-equipped cavalry battalions must have been expensive.

>>2653508
assuming equal numbers, technically yes
>more charge impact from sheer mass and speed
>more mobility by far

however it's extremely expensive so we can only discuss this in theory.

>>2653508
Well armoured infantry and crossbows beat horse archers any day.

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Catholicism
Catholicism
Because it's the largest, oldest, most effective branch of Christianity.

>>2653054
>atheism
>Protestant Christianity
>Because I have dscovered that god loves me and that I need him to be there for me. It's kind of complicate but It's what feels best

>>2653072
>God
>him

REEEEEEEEEE

>>2651363
Of course not. We had the South Koreans and Americans on top of that and still lost.

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>>2651449
The American way of fighting was deeply flawed. They weren't fully prepared for counter-guerilla operations.

>>2650214
Most of those in Parliament's army carried Bibles, and they were led by a devout Puritan member of Parliament named Oliver Cromwell. He was a good organizer and military commander. His army was aided by the strict discipline that was characteristic of the Calvinists, a discipline that helped in maintaining military formation in the heat of battle.

>>2650214
He was the top guy in the army next to Fairfax, Fairfax retired so he became the top guy.

That and the whole "just doing the lords will" thing.

Thread theme

https://youtu.be/V-LyUCV80d8

>>2648374
Same reason Mohammad is the "most perfect" man who ever lived.

Disagree, and lose your head.

Islam = a very inferior Christianity.

>>2648391

More accurate to say 'proselytizing Judaism'.

Rest of Europe went protestant, they stayed catholic. Same reason there are so few famous chemists, astronomers, etc compared to the rest of Europe.

>>2648293
Armada got BTFO
Colonies BTFO
Years of fucked up shit and civil wars left them in ruins

mañana

Depends what you consider 'little known' but he suffered from a brief opium addiction during his military deployment.

>>2642654
He had a bastard son in France

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he and his Nazi counter parts were one of the first country's to make animal rights into law

supporting bump
I'm so tired of HRE or Byzantium threads

I need a redpill on the origin of Zoroastrianism

>>2636033
>best Persian ruler
That's literally 1000 years worth of rulers, but almost universally it's considered to be Cyrus. He's to Persians what Alexander is to Greeks, although Persia would be at its greatest extent under Darius or Xerxes (I forget which).

>most important
In terms of legacy? Definitely the Achaemenids. The entire Greek model of empire (satrapies, etc.) was based on the Achaemenids. Also, first empire in the modern sense that would endure all the way to the British.

>Greeks and Romans
They shared a border. They were both great civilisations with imperial ambitions. And that border just happened to meet on the most fertile and rich parts of the planet.

>>2636051
I'm unironically a Roma/Byzaboo despite being Iranian, so I don't mind.

There's just so little about the Persians before the Islamic period compared to the Greeks and Romans that I find it hard to get into it.

The Shahnameh is pretty sweet to read but it's hardly contemporary.

Medieval sieges. You gotta go trough that ladder. Man... That's just suicide.

And WW1 Trenches. True horror.

>>2628471
>For most of the history of warfare dudes were killed by fucking swords.

Nope. More died from arrowfire, but the number one killer was disease.

I would not be able to stand Napoleonic warfare. The guys on the line had the biggest balls to stand there and take and fire shots. I remember reading that guys would do snuff to calm their nerves, and brothers would be next to eachother and just see a shot blow their brains out. Crazy.