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No. Saladin was actually looking forward to slaughtering all christians in Jerusalem. During the siege christians asked a number of times for terms of surrender and Saladin refused each time, because if they'd surrender, he wouldn't have a reason to slaughter civilians as punishment.
But eventually christians vowed to destroy every muslim holy place in Jerusalem before they die, and it was only then that Saladin was forced to agree to terms of surrender. People would be allowed to leave if they pay heavy ransom, those who can't afford to pay would be enslaved. He was hoping that the nobles would just pay and leave, leaving those who couldn't afford to pay to their fate. But instead, Balian and many other nobles spent almost all their money to pay ransom for their people.
I don't know where the myth of Saladin being merciful comes from. He must have had an awesome PR manager. After all, he is a man who had hundreds of Templars and Hospitallers executed after the battle of Hattin, after they laid down their weapons. Basically commiting a war crime.
The BBC documentary you mentioned along with many others has a tendency to portray christians as evil savages and muslims as noble, civilized people, because of political corectness. God forbid if the audience would realize that the christians could be the victims. I mean christians are always the villains, right? Right?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_King_Arthur

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There are too many parallels with this guy to ignore. The King Arthur legend is an embellished fragmented version of his story before the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.

Rather like how the Iliad was an embellished fragmented version of the invasion of Troy before the bronze age collapse and the romance of three kingdoms is an embellished account of the fall of Han.

>>2419858
Probably

Sweden chimped out but soon came close to getting BTFO but then the French arrived and saved them

Kill 6 million germans
Do it for Jesus

>>2425118

The G*rm breeds wars, the G*rm fuels wars.

>>2425098
Luigi Cadorna is the prime example of what Rommel was saying when he said Italians had bad commanders.

>>2425104
Cadorna won the war, Rommel didn't

>>2425110
'''''''''won'''''''''

>>2424821
Other Romans

>>2424832
fpbp

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Pontus for the meme-factor.

>>2424757
Jews were always evil, their god is the devil

>>2424771
Then why does He love them so much?

>>2424757
top kek no but it doesn't surprise me kikes would do this shit

>>2424665
He's not Arabic, he's a spic from Mexico. Only has a trip in Arabic because fuck knows. Also he's autistic, I don't mean 4chan meme autism but actual autism. Someone should just kill him already.

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>>2424665
Gay mexican from Guadalajara. Posted nazi photos for 6 hours straight the other day. Maybe tripfagging in desert runes because he looks like an arab. Totally annoying. Best ignore.

>>2424676
Well now I feel a lot less concerned.

>>2424605
I don't know, but the faggot who did fire at him got shoot like 70 times

>>2424605
Would he have really made every man a Kang?

>>2424740
You just can't help some people.

>>2424512
people who don't have anything interesting going on in their lives and the only thing they have to be proud is their blood.

>>2424512
Desire to belong to a great legacy.

Modern society is cosmopolitan and bland and people are losing a sense of identity and place and thus WE WUZ is an attempt to ground themselves in something and perhaps inspire the desire to do something more than play vidya and smoke weed.

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Nice history.

>>2424387
>/his/ is not /pol/, and Global Rule #3 is in effect. Do not try to treat this board as /pol/ with dates.
read the sticky

>>2424381
I think you mean the Mediterranean

>>2423945
Temples were often centers of commerce in the ancient world, so I don't see why not - though when you go that far back things no doubt get fuzzy, so while I doubt we really know the particulars, it parallels more recent activity that is part of historical record.

>>2423978
it just seems a little random. Say you bring in 50 clay jars, how would that compare to your demands for heads of cattle or barley or something

>>2423991
If that was the methodology, I assume they would put up a daily exchange rate sign, or you'd negotiate.

There is no end all for armor. What you should wear depends entirely on the situation you face and the opponent you're up against.

Aesthetically, it's brilliant looking though.

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>>2423701
yes
It's called 17th century armor

>>2423712
It's amazing defensively as well. It combines the roundness of Italian armour with the fluting of German armour.

>>2423491

Low.

>>2423491

Not bad at all, actually. The Italian Fascists loved technology and were at the forefront of industrialisation. They started from near nothing but by WW2 they had sizeable ship building, automobile and airplane industries.

They had some good designs like aircraft MC 202 and MC 205, small arms like Beretta M38, but they weren't able to produce anything in great numbers because their economy was simply not ready for war, as stated by Mussolini himself. Italy needed at least two more years of preparations but Benny got greedy after German easy victory over France.

>>2423475
You can be racist of one race and not racist of another. Also, and far more likely, If your going to go to war with somebody, you want to be buddies with people that don't like your enemy.

>>2423478
This

>>2423475

>play up the appeal to emotion of the brown people you enemy suppresses slightly in order to get the moral high ground while you literally genocide your minority groups

really made me think

9/11

>>2423445
Precisely the sort of things I mean, you're right about that. That must be the biggest one in the st century, surely?

Generally events do not change society.
Ferdinand is a good example, because The Euro nations has sorta been wanting a super Euro War for at the least 30 years by 1915.
Its just at the point where enough things had stacked up, for it to finally happen.