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Do you think he just wanted to make up for years of being bullied?
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>>2620474
Do you think loaded questions have any objective merit?
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He was the bully.
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>>2620491
He was the final stage of the school shooter
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Why did Valentinian take the Western half of the Empire? The East was wealthier and had borders that were much easier to defend.
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the west was where Rome was and you can't be Roman emperor without having Rome
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>>2621032
that's where you're wrong, kiddo
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>>2621032
By the time Valentinian came to power Rome was a backwater little village that nobody gave a shit about and was seen as an active drain on the resources of the rest of the Empire.
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Why didn't they just discontinue spears and axes and make nothing but halberds
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Axes were/are useful engineering tools. Halberds actually survived for a long time in colour parties.
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because not everyone can afford a halberd
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>>2620401
not available in f2p
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Historical truths that are hard to swallow 2017-04-06 04:23:20 Post No.2620366
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Historical truths that are hard to swallow
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Brazil and Canada contributed more to the Allied victory in WWII than Britain did.
The British contribution to WWI was equal to the American one, and their true participation only started around the same time America entered the war.
The Chechens were in the right in almost all conflicts they had with the Russians.
British performance in the Zulu wars was sub par, Rorke's Drift was a one off success in a canyon with no strategic worth, causing the Zulus to abandon it.
Samurai armor is actually incredibly viable and strong. The Samurai drove off the Mongols, and the typhoons killed the ones retreating.
Woodrow Wilson is the worst President in the history of the United States of America, and one of the worst world leaders in history alongside Stalin.
The Jewish people being kicked out of every country they settled in at one point or another in history shows that their persecution has some form of unbiased justification.
North Vietnamese were in the right during the Vietnam war, the war was fought only for drug money, and most Northern Vietnamese didn't hold communist beliefs.
The Korean war was an astounding victory for America and one of the most important wars of the 20th century next to both World Wars.
Nicholas II was a likable human being who did nothing worse than any other Tsar could have done in his predicament.
Carlos II of Spain was one of the greatest and most successful rulers on the history of Europe.
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laying it on too thick
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>>2620366
You best start believing in troll threads
If Mohammed had come to power 10 years later than he actually did, would the Muslim conquests of the Romans and Persians have been as succesful? Ten years wouldve allowed both empires to have recovered much more after their last war.
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>630 AD
>Romans
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>>2620369
It's fair to call them Romans. It's what the Arabs called the Byzantines and it's what they called themselves. Especially at this time
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How exactly did economies work in ancient/medieval times? I understand polities would generally have their own currencies, but how did they manage international trade with differing currencies? And along that same vein, I keep seeing things about new rulers minting new coins when they take power.
How did this work in practical terms? Was it just a matter of the amount of precious metal content in the coins that were minted?
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>>2620360
>Was it just a matter of the amount of precious metal content in the coins that were minted?
No, not really. I'm not an expert but coins were always taken at their face value and not by weight of whatever metal they were minted with.
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A coin's practical value was based off of its amount of precious metal, which is why debasement was such a problem and gold from the New World crashed the Spanish economy. Rulers minted coins as a way to show their dominance; usurpers often went to the mints early on to change the face on the coins.
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So currency was effectively just a means to divide precious metals into specific units?
Was reusing the metals in coins for other purposes commonplace then? Say melting down a bunch of gold coins to create some piece of jewelry?
And for the minting part - did the old coins remain in circulation, or were they replaced?
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>>2620231
The butt hurt that drove someone to create this image is funny to imagine, but despite that thank you OP for dragging the level of discourse on /his/ even further.
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>Sabaton
Jesus, read their lyrics and then rethink this image.
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>>2620231
>starter pack
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>>2620231
>tfw just got a 104% on my last history exam
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Did Islam do more good or harm for the Middle East? What would happen if they stayed christian if Islam wasn't so successful at spreading?
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the centralization and homogenization of culture helped progress early on, but since the religion was so easily anti-intellectual it backfired once mongols came and fucked them up.
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>>2620206
They could have launched into space by 1650
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>>2620227
Pretty much this.
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Cavalier or Roundhead?
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Orangeist
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>>2620110
Jacobite.
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It fills me with immense gratification whenever I see my ancestor in a woodcutting standing in attendance at the beheading of Charles I.
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>narrow strait connects the Mediterranean Sea to the black Sea
>another narrow strait connects the black Sea to the sea of Azov
>the Dnieper river one of the longest in Europe starts up in North Western russia and drains into the sea of azov
Why is the black Sea so patrician /his/?
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>>2620067
Cause it black muh nigga
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Subtract points for no passage way to the Caspian Sea.
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>>2620067
How were Venice and Genoa able to control Crimea from so far away?
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Greatest orators in history thread
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Why was his voice so deep and MANLY if he only had 1 ball? And could 5 inches flaccid be considered microscopic?
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>>2620010
Not even a brit bong but I admire the fuck out of Oswald Mosley.. I wish I could post webms on /his/ because there are quite a few great ones
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>Upon his death Prasutagus left his kingdom to be shared by his two daughters and the new Roman emperor, Nero, believing that this would ensure tranquility for his family and kingdom. Roman law, however, did not allow royal inheritance to be passed to daughters, and co-ownership of a kingdom with a woman was unacceptable according to Roman standards. Kinsmen of the royal house were enslaved. Boudicca was flogged and then forced to witness the public rape and torture of her two daughters, who were believed to have been roughly 12 years old at the time of the rebellion.
Were Romans completely fucking evil?
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the weak should fear the strong
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>>2619942
So strong, gang-raping defenseless twelve year old girls.
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>ally with the Romans
>the second you die they steal your land and rape your daughters
Spartacus, the Gauls, the Iceni, Zealots and Barbarians did nothing wrong.
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/his/ Draw & Art thread 2017-04-06 01:59:52 Post No.2619858
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Hey, drawfag that did pic related a while ago. I'd love to take more requests if anyone has any, nothing too complicated though.
Also, general /his/ art. Will post more in a sec
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How successful would the Wehrmacht have been in WWII had Hitler decided to delegate grand strategy entirely to his most qualified and talented generals? Without Hitler's interference, could they have made the meme come alive?
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Win or lose. It wasn't all Hitler's fault. If Japan had attack USSR instead of USA, if Mussolini hadn't been captured or decided to attack Greece then the war would've taken a different route.
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>>2619833
Please don't use terms that you don't understand, OP. Grand strategy, deciding what the state does or does not strive for, assigning objectives and determining how much of a cost they're worth, is pretty much by definition the job of the chief executive, not the generals.
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>>2619840
Germany would still lose.
America's involvement on the side of the allies was inevitable.
I doubt the Japanese, already embroiled in war with China, would be able to do much to the Soviet Union, aside from the musings of a particular Russian coward.
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Kino historical period movies 2017-04-06 01:35:55 Post No.2619761
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What are some KINO historical period movies? Post them. They need to be approved by Rottne Tomatoes, otherwise I won't watch. Needless to say they need to be historically accurate too.
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The Name of the Rose.
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>They need to be approved by Rottne Tomatoes
fuck off pleb
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Master and Commander