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>>2046998
Because it worked incredibly well until it didn't

>>2046998

horses expensive as fuck, take up land especially for small city states and with non-professional armies, well protected phalanx good against horses.

dunno about archers. feel like they would have been limited contribution to a battle without good bow technology and they need protection and shit, just might as well use hoplites, especialyl if you got limited troops small city population.

>>2046998

Because they beat the guys with cavalry and archers a hell of a lot more often than they lost to them.

>>2046963
Have the websites you've been using seen a notable influx in their stocks? If so then yes, you probably are.

>>2046968
>Have the websites you've been using seen a notable influx in their stocks? If so then yes, you probably are.

Yeah ebay has had a shocking uptick in stocks and low prices.

Not quite addressing OP's question but arguably by paying taxes in a western country you're indirectly recruiting for them.

>>2046837
I loathe alt history topics because I hold the view that you cannot at all predict how other factors would have played out.

But what do you mean exactly?

>>2046906
I mean, the vikings werent as interested in eliminating native beliefs for example, like the catholics of spain were.
My personal ideas are that things would have been better as the concept of "convert or die" that the spanish had was alien to the vikings who werent catholics

>>2046928
I can understand that, but what I meant: do vikings isolate themselves on North-America, is there exchange with North-American vikings and European vikings, etc.

I do honestly think that if North-America had more cultural exchange in earlier periods things might have worked out better.

bunda bunda

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>>2046656
This.

Santos Dumont ftw.

>>2046652
Gustav Weisskopf

>>2046638
Invade Italy

Get slaves to kill mosquitos

>>2046638
After capturing Persia and Egypt, move further west in North africa then back up through Spain to encircle and choke the roman empire to death before its even born
Fuck india, I want my Macedonian Mediteranean region NOW

>>2046565
Interstiting figure overall I consider him a net positive on history. I do belive he helped to minimize the bloodshed in the transition of Indian subcontinent away from British rule.

>>2046565
Gypsy faggot in a bathrobe whose strategical pathway to victory was doing nothing.

>>2046592
Very well said, I agree.

Japan is bunch of resourceless volcano islands. India is abundant

Why would they want to colonize it?

>>2046496

Because real life isn't Risk. British colonial conquest wasn't them coming in with lots of cannons and muskets and stomping the crap out of the native armies and setting up shop: Even if they (or any European power) could do that (and they could) you'd set yourself up for enormous resistance from the indigenous population.

Rather, the British, and most other colonial powers, went looking for cracks in the local power structure, finding weak tribes or princes or the losers of power struggles, offering their help in exchange for ruling concessions. Then they had a friendly native force in their debt, and usually one that couldn't maintain power without outside support. The British got into India by playing the various rajahs against each other, not by just storming in.

I don't know as much about Japan, but I don't think it had the sort of political divisiveness that would have made it easy to conquer and colonize.

>>2046482
No. Russia wouldn't accept a subordinate position for long and the US didn't go through all of that shit to win the cold war to split things evenly.

>>2046500
Well yes at the time it was impossible,but with the growing power of China doesn't it make sense for the United States to ally their largest, nearest, potentially greatest long term rival.

>>2046482

Yes, the USA were mainly friends / allies under Yeltsin.

Putin has always been sad that the USSR collapsed and made it a major goal of his leadership to attack what he sees as US dominance.

>>2046438
To test our faith

>>2046443
But why create them 100s of millions of years ago? Could there have been a human race that he got mad at and wiped out?

>>2046438
>Why did God create the dinosaurs?
In His youth God created all kinds of animals, who paleontologist mistake for being related, they are not. God was simply toying around, such as with oxygen and so forth.

At one moment God created dinosaurs. And man did God like them! For a lot of years He created dinosaurs. But after so many years He got ashamed after making so many dinosaurs and felt it was childish. So He destroyed them in His anger.

This is why in the Bible there is no mention of anything of the animals before God made humans. He was ashamed of making the dinosaurs and equally ashamed of His anger issues. Didn't prevent Him for creating the floods tho.

The Lord Almighty also created climate change because he is fed up with all the sinning that is happening in the western world.

because US and bros are the bad guys?

they wanted to protect their oil reserve bitches (aka Saudi arabia,kuwait and Qatar)
But they saw saddam,Bashar and generally pan arabism as a threat to that
so they fucked them up

>literally faschist socialism as formal ideology
>don't even do that and revert to Stalin style dictatorships
>than morph into hereditary monarchies
>side with USSR against the west
>fuck up their economy despite having great natural resources
>walk around in military fatigues but suck in actual combat
Yes they are the good guys. If you are a contrarian NEET with a fetish for RT, that is.

>>2046241
They have a really bad habit of massacring people who they dislike

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>>2046218
fap to anime

>>2046218

Go to bring condoms to the grandma of the retard who keeps posting this same thread with "you are Hitler", "you are Mussolini", "you are... Eh... Whatever jap was in charge".

>>2046218
imprison and kill all the current military leadership then ask germany to lend me officers
im a puppet of germany anyways might as well act like it in the case i wont be humiliated in war

then id invest so much into naval and air supremacy that the entire coast of the meditteranean, atlantic, and black sea become a no go zone for anytone other than axis

and most of all economically colonize and devestate every area i touch thats not axis, my economy is trash so i may as well full blown pillage for the benefit of my state

and finally id plan for a backdoor out of all this shit because covering my ass is obviously important considering how history went. I'd actually be in argentina and id be shitposting as an old fuck on int and pol

>>2046131

If you decide it has meaning, it does for you.

lack of intrinsic meaning ≠ lack of derivable meaning

that a glass of water is empty does not mean that water doesn't exist.

>>2046131
>asks us to prove an argument
>same sentence says it cant be proven
Whoa nice thread, dont forget to check out reddit :^)

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>>2046126

Gödel's ontological proof

How could the world be millions of years old when it's 2016

agreed

>>2046086
English is closely related to Latin, like half are words are the same in Latin.

>an educated Englishman wouldn't know the language that spent centuries being the standard tongue in academia at the time when it was still commonly used as such

You look like a gay homo with that stupid wig, faggot.

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NEITHER HOLY

Literally everyone else called them the "Empire of the Greeks"