What is the greatest Empire/country that never came to be?
>>2238610
>1941
>Neo-nazi
???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian%E2%80%93Muscovite_Commonwealth
NEVER. EVER.
>>2238610
There's really no competition here.
Is she, dare I say it, our girl?
>>2238454
She looks like she zukameandik
>>2238824
SHE'S THE GREATEST
Is it true that straight men have (consensual) gay sex in prison because they won't see women for an extended period of time?
Not true. Sometimes guys masturbate suggestively in the showers but for the most only literal fags fuck each other.
t. spent five years in state pen
>>2238430
How does one go from the pen to the Chan?
>>2238441
Hes prob a gud boi who dindu nuffin wrong except tweet about his loli and cp collection
claim you're historical waifu
But I'm not
You already did, you fag.
Just how fucking terrible was Middle Eastern Christianity for them to mass convert at the first oppurtunity?
You realize it was a violent conquest, right?
>>2238364
They didn't mass convert, the conquest was mostly a replacement of Greek/Iranian imperial governors with Arabs who didn't care as much as the Byzantines and Sassanids about the religion of their subjects. Eastern Christianity actually expanded soon after the conquest.
>>2238364
Islam isn't that far from Christianity and converting came with a lot of social benefits.
How did the Romans justify having a king but saying they did not?
Also, what was the protocol for selecting the next emperor, asides from military coup?
Emperor, 'imperator', just means 'commander', 'one who commands'.
It is later, Western thought which subsequently clothed 'emperor' in new clothes.
> king = rex = rego 'to rule'
> emperor = imperator = impero 'to command'
No difference.
>>2238343
Rome was still technically a Republic, the senate had not been dissolved fully until much later, they just had no real power anymore.
>>2238369
Did they buy it, that explanation?
>Anatolian
>Aeloic
>Sabellic
>Continental Celtic
>East Germanic
>Tocharian
>West Baltic
>>2238289
You forgot the Alans
>>2238316
at least they have their brothers, the Ossetians, who live on with the North Iranic ethnicity.
I posted WHOLE BRANCHES that are GONE FOREVER.
>>2238289
>Scythian
>Sarmatian
>Zunbils/Hephthalites
If you were sent back into the Middle Ages in Europe, how would you live? Would you try to approach the aristocracy with you phone? Would you say you were a time traveler? How would you avoid execution for being a witch?
Depends on what we get to bring
If i could bring modern weaponry like an automatic rifle and body armor I would make myself a small time noble and maybe work my way up to King if i had a large enough following.
Then i would die a glorious death as my lads and i charge the field after i finally run out of the ammunition i brought
Or maybe i would just be a peasant. Probably just a peasant.
Since I'd barely be able to understand my own language, I'd just travel to someplace in the middle of nowhere and build a hut and hunt/farm there until I die of a broken leg when I'm 40
>>2238277
Executions for being a which were non-excitant to uncommon in the Middle Ages. I doubt that would be the charge.
Not sure if this is the right board, but my mother recently found this coin at the bottom of a jewelry box, and I can't find any info on it, like where it came from and what this kind of coin is actually called.
Quarter for comparison.
This side of it says, from top to bottom:
Liberty
New York State American Revolution
Bicentennial
1776 ~ 1997
There's also the small symbol in the bottom right of the coin, which is of the two people holding spears and an eagle on the top of a what looks like a shield which I've seen on old version of silver quarters, just don't know the name.
Here's the other side, I think it's George Washington along with the same years of 1776 and 1997 on either side of him. I know all about American history and that's when the Bicentennial was celebrated. I'm just curious of the symbolism, face value, and origin.
Here's the other side, sorry for the glare. I think it's George Washington along with the same years of 1776 and 1997 on either side of him. I know all about American history and that's when the Bicentennial was celebrated. I'm just curious of the symbolism, face value, and origin.
>>2238264
It's a quarter.
The other thing is a commemorative medallion.
>>2238280
I can see that, but I can't find any info on it.
Has their been any signifigent buddhist leaders through time? Like king,emperor etc
*significant
Im sorry please dont become mad at me
>>2238249
No.
What happened?
someone made a thread on /his/
AGAIN
>>2238076
Island of sensibility in the frenzy of decolonization.
>>2238076
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyJFRTJgPbU
If the Franks had lost at Tours, would Islam have been able to spread to Western Europe, or was the significance of the battle overblown? If it was indeed important and the Franks lost, how would Europe have looked like afterwards?
>>2238050
>If the Franks had lost at Tours, would Islam have been able to spread to Western Europe, or was the significance of the battle overblown?
Maybe just western Europe.I think that central Europe would have remained catholic after the battle
>>2238050
>If the Franks had lost at Tours, would Islam have been able to spread to Western Europe,
No. The Islamic army was actually already heading back to Spain before Tours, and the battle didn't even settle the Aquataine campaign, let alone anything else.
> or was the significance of the battle overblown?
Ding Ding Ding. Actually, pretty much every one of Creasy's "15 decisive battles" was massively overblown. He had a real talent for picking unimportant battles in important conflicts.
If you want to posit a world in which Islam could or did make enormous inroads into Europe, don't change the outcome of Tours. Change the outcome of the 717-718 siege of Constantinople, which had about 5 times the forces committed and was backed by the biggest Islamic state by far.
Fact is the battle was not viewed as a really important event by contemporaries. It can only be speculated about its significance, but it is most probably not the outstanding battle that saved the West.
Another fact is that, after the battle, the Moors had no particular interest to start follow-up campaigns in order to conquer more of northern Europe. There were more profitable regions to be conquered, not to mention regions with better climate, more fertile grounds, more wealth and better infrastructure.
This is the same reason the Romans stopped conquering the lands in Northern Europe once they reached Scotland or the Rhine. This also goes for Alexander the great and the Mongols, as there were more highly developed regions: Alexander wanted to reach India, the Mongols wanted Egypt first and stopped in Hungary.
Which empire was the best and why was it the British Empire?
>>2238036
More like that "we did this for India but the rest is kinda cool I guess" Empire
>>2238038
>Italy
>Responsible for Rome
>Spain
>Somehow gaining Germany through inheritance is an achievement
>Germany
>Took France, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands and Belgium and Poland, all significantly weaker
I see "brainlet" thrown around a lot here. What exactly does it mean?
If you weren't a brainlet you would know
>>2238031
So it means a stupid person?
wasn't he a barista or something ?
>>2237987
HE
>>2237987
HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME
*installs cleopatra as Pharoah*
>>2237990
WAS