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...to this?

Spanish intervention

>>1967203
>temple's stairs casually spilled with blood
They had it comin

Right about what about God exactly?

>>1967088
That he wanted to keep people as stupid slaves without any idea or self-awareness.

That he toyed with them.

>>1967094
Source?

The British Empire was always going to separate but its successor states would be much more closely tied and would constitute a more important global power bloc.

Russia would transition to constitutional monarchy and probably end up something like the present day UK with devolved powers.

The US would consolidate power in he Americas much like it did in reality and would be something like China geopolitically, powerful but less assertive and influential culturally.

The European powers would be pretty varied, some would cling to Empire, others wouldn't.

>>1966910
A tiny backwater nation that still relies on slavery industrializes in a single generation and slowly takes over the entire Old World except for the UK and India, reducing their entire populations to chattel slavery with no substantial difficulties. The US spearheads an alliance against them and the two sides engage in a prolonged Cold War, only with much higher stakes, interrupted only by frequent sessions of lesbian sex.

>>1966921
What do you think would happen to places like France and Germany or The Ottomans and Japan?

>>1966868
The British Army for a long period of time was really nothing special in terms of the European ground armies of the time and even in the next century. It was the normiest of all normie armies of the period.

Their colonial forces however were pretty competent, funnily enough, in comparison towards the army at home.

>The expression “scum of the earth” uttered by Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, has become etched in history as a great commander's miserable opinion of his men. In a letter to Henry, Third Earl Bathurst, from Huarte Spain, on 2 July, 1813, Wellington wrote, “we have in the service the scum of the Earth as common soldiers.”

>His opinion did not change with time. On 4 November, 1813, he declared in a conversation with Philip Henry, Fifth Earl Stanhope, “I don't mean to say that there is no difference in the composition or therefore the feeling of the French army and ours. The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the Earth—the mere scum of the Earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterward. The English soldiers are fellows who have enlisted for drink—that is the plain fact—they have all enlisted for drink.”

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>>1966868
>Buying officer ranks.

Not very

The Japanese were strongest at sea, and though their army was large their doctrines were dated and their industry would have never been able to manufacture what was needed to keep the Soviet juggernaut at bay.

>>1966835
>and though their army was large
"No." The casualties Germany took alone amounted to more than the living bodies that Japan could muster for the IJA.

>>1966845
Wiki says IJA had 6 million soldiers

>>1966750
Serial killer masquerading as a doctor.

>>1966750
He truely was the Zapp Brannigan of Doctors

>>1966750
>That was the only operation in history with a 300 percent mortality.
JUST

>>1966687
Civilization = how to deal with agricultural surplus

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Probably the Aboriginals after they burnt down half the bush in favour of hunting.

>>1966693
>surplus
marx pls go

>>1966567
If America decided tomorrow that they're God's Chosen People and The Greatest Nation On Earth and therefore has the right to nuke everyone, would you like that?

>>1966575
That's not imperialism
That's Islam

>>1966575
America is factually speaking the greatest nation on Earth, and if god were real America is certainly in his favour right now.
There is no therefore. Righteousness is derived from authority, and authority is derived from power, and in regards to worldly power the US has the greatest.
If authority lies with the Lord of Isaac and Abraham, father of Christ, Allah, Jehovah, Jahweh, God, it is in full accordance with His divine will that one group should use their worldly power to dominate another, to take their cities, their lands and animal, to take from their number as slaves, and to impose their beliefs upon them.
Since their is no higher worldly power than America, and of those in America who believe in a power higher than the worldly believe overwhelmingly in the God who led Moses and the Jews from Egypt, yes, your assertion is correct, they have the right.

>>1966441
>What will go down as the most unjustified war in history
Unironically Operation: Iraqi Freedom. Most plebs would say Vietnam, but given the context that was Containment Theory, it was far more justified for the period.

>>1966441
Most 19th century colonial wars
Had Britain any reason to attack the Zanzibar Sultanate?

WW1 had plenty of causes and was absolytly justified from the view point of countries facing foreign aggression (Serbia, Belgium, France...)

>>1966466
>Had Britain any reason to attack the Zanzibar Sultanate?
Ending the slave trade which was the stated purpose. Zanzibar was THE center of the slave trade after the transatlantic slave trade was shut down. More slaves went through Zanzibar in the 19th century than went to the whole of the Americas in the 16th through 18th centuries.

>>1966336
Battleships can't write books, idiot.

>>1966358
/thread

>>1966336
"Battleship at War" is a pretty good book I think. It follows the USS Washington which was one of the most decorated battleships the USN had that served pretty much from beginning to the end of the war.

>>1966227
This isn't something you'll learn in history class, but the Roman patrician class reclined to eat because they cut the tendons of their women in childhood to keep them from straying too far outside the house/from their husbands (it was originally a Greek practice but it spread to Rome). It was a little like footbinding. So it literally caused their women pain to stand or sit for too long.

The practice was going out by the time the Republic transitioned into an Empire and was almost unknown by 100 AD.

>>1966253
Do you have a source on that?

>>1966253
nowa THAT'S what I call muh sog in knee

>>1966218
Was the Renaissance possible without the fall of Rome?

>>1966218
30 years later it caused Communism, so I'd have to go with no

>>1966218
Not directly, but yes.

>>1966176
Khan easily

>>1966176

Counter-question: what would make Alexander's army any more ready to deal with Genghis' than 1200s-era Chinese forces?

>>1966183
An army of Mongolian horseback archers.

>>1966105
An emperor is the King of Kings

same as between an empire and a kingdom

one WUZ
the other WUZ'NT

>>1966011
If it's cheap it's a fake.

>>1966016
Their quality is really crappy though, so perhaps it's legit? Where can I shop for real stuff?

>>1966016
I wouldn't say that. If they are cheap and not fake, it is usually because they are not in very good condition, depict a not so popular emperor, are very common, and were very low in purity, with some being made with as little as 5% precious metals.