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Polarize my protons and explain how swimming in the corpse ridden ganges is enlightened.

>>2264604
>Legalism
>Peaceful and enlightened

>>2264604
Peace at all costs is stupid.
There are things worth dying for, there are things worth killing for.

Yes I know the Scots had the advantage of mountainous terrain, but that's mainly in the highlands, most of the population was located in the lowlands, which had practically the same geography as northern England. So you can't just shrug it off by claiming guerrilla warfare.

Seen as how this board always claims France has always been one of the most successful countries in war, explain why they couldn't put up as good a fight as a country that had all the odds stacked against them.

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>>2264573
>has 5 times the population of England and at least 5 times the wealth
>have the English Channel seperating you and England, meaning it cost a shitload of Englands war budget just to transport troops over
>gets pillaged for roughly 100 years
>large amounts of French land taken by the English for a long time

You start with the false implication that "England" conquered these lands, when in reality their French nobles on the English throne inherited them (it was their falmily ancestral lands) and lost it all at war

Also your rant about population is wrong
The HYW was basically a war between two French families, not between the French and the English people
Being French, the family that ruled England had no problem gaining the support of the inhabitants of the French lands they ruled (especially since as you can see on pic related, the whole of Western France had been ruled by the Plantagenets for much longer than it had been by the Valois)

>>2264573
But i'm an Anglophile

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It was pre-ordained to block my path.

>>2264503
How were the Romans able to protect their outer borders against barbarians with this one feet tall stone wall?

>>2264847
It was taller in the past

>>2264499
No one denies this though.

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>ruled for 12 years
>most important

>>2264499

'most important' is a meaningless term

>>2264387
Proof that some weird fat aliens visited early man.

>>2264387
No ungo you go too far

>implying the impact of speaker was not determined by the audience
Hitler was good cause he learned speaking in small over crowded places without PA. His rhetoric and arguments are garbage.

>>2264207
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4UhJpviVYg

>>2264236
The Goering medals scene was great.
>>2264215
Ever notice how The Migos, Desiigner, Future, etc. are all literally retarded, but they still make better music than this shit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN23lFKfpck

>>2264124
Both, and neither! Hahahaha.

>His conquest, while impressive, mostly involved conquering a failed state.

>Spreading Hellenic culture all the way to India, and having everything from the Medi to India mix brought about a cultural renaissance.
>Asia was given a shared history.
>He prolly had a smol bean tho

>>2264124
>Revolt
>Get genocided

Or my favorite:
>Teach your pupil the story of Hector's fate after his fight with Achilles
>Alexander makes proto-Carthage's king out to be his Hector
>Forget to tell pupil Hector was long dead befor--
>Alexander ties king to horse and drags him around just like in the story

Alexander was just an /a/non gone too far.

>>2264144
that is simply not true....at the time of 330 BC,Achaemenid Persia was extremely wealthy, and able to amass large armies....

It's true that it wasn't at its peak when Alexander invaded, but it was no means a "dying empire" (whatever that means)


Alexander's success can be linked to many factors

>it was well timed
> the formidable military prowness of the Greeks and Macdeonian military inventiveness
>the fact that Alexander was a military genius


It;s true that Persia was politically fragmented at the time, but Darius still had extraordinary control of the empire

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p-please respond..

Wish I had anything for you OP

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>>2264117

>>2264110
>revel in the meaninglessness of the universe
>deny man's status as a participant the infinite
>become obsessed with sterile objectivity and diminish subjectivity by reducing everything to evolutionary by-products
>shit art, shit philosophy, shit insight into reality and human nature

>>2264110
Hard to create anything inspiring when your ideology is the antithesis of inspiring. It's a bleak, bland intellectual dead end.

Actually, this is a very interesting question

Hell, even Christopher Hitchens argues that art would of not been as good if the world was secular from the beginning

that religion plays a role in developing great art

>>2264101
Western Europe

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>>2264165
Pleb.

But seriously, why?

>>2264101
Eastern, royal german scism, where more allies was a liability and nothing of importance was lost.

Moscow was the spiritual capital of Moscow and had greater meaning to the Russian aristocracy.

>>2264047

>Why did Napoleon attack?

>>2264050
It still makes no sense, he could've just picked the shortest route throught the Baltic all the way to St Petersburg.
>>2264063
To punish Russia for trading with Britain

>>2263811
>Assume maternity is a sufficient virtue of femininity


Why are you assuming this? Especially if you're trying to argue for a feminist perspective, which every feminist thinker I can think of would categorically disagree since it puts the value of femininity as producing something external to the woman herself.

>>2263820
>Why are you assuming this?
Because the human race would not exist if this weren't the case.

>>2263820
right, so this is the crux of my argument
I have to articulate and describe how maternity is a virtue of femininity. I intuitively know this to be the case, however, I need some time to develop the argument.
However, I describe maternity as a SUFFICIENT virtue of femininity, not NECESSARY. i.e. maternity is one of many virtues

bampin for OP, im interested too. When did the 'fantasy story' but 'set in the future' make it's first appearance? Was it in a novel? Earlier than than the novel even?

>>2263775
ask /lit/

>>2264390
Probably didn't start with H.G. but he probably popularized it.

conflicting opinions and psychology of the masses

>>2263762
People are emotionally invested in them.

>>2263762
They all involve petty tribalism.
People make their tribes a part of their identities.
From then on every attack on their tribes, however justified, is perceived as a personal attack.
Reason gets thrown out the window.

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>he's Islamic

How long until the m*ngols are finally exterminated?

>Persian achievements are attributed to camel fuckers from the desert