I like studying history of conquerors like Ghengis Khan, Attilla, etc.
We can all agree the best are Abaddon the Despoiler or Archaon the Everchosen.
Case for Abaddon:
>Been conquering for 10k years
>has destroyed thousands of worlds and killed >trillions of people
Case for Archaon
>actually won a total victory for Chaos and >completely crushed all enemies of chaos
THoughts my fellow historians?
>>1859801
Hello fellow servitor, Praise the Emperor
Speaking of Heretics permits excommunicatus
Enjoy the inquistion
>>1859833
Chaos protect me!
>>1859839
Who could squat more, Augustus or Caesar?
>>1859784
Caesar probably since he was an actual soldier and was a lot more /fit/ than Augustus
>>1859794
Alright what about Caesar and Scipio
>>1859784
Caesar since he squatted often on dicks as Queen of Bithniya
Is completely leveling a city a la Guernica or Dresden no longer allowed or something?
If it's still legal why did it not happen during Korea, Vietnam or the Gulf War?
>>1859760
what's Allepo?
>>1859760
Total war.
>>1859760
Neither city was leveled. Even the absolute devastation of Dresden only killed about 3% of its population.
It's not done primarily because it's not very effective as a morale destroying factor, and modern wars are generally non-total, so its industrial application is generally not a major factor.
And you did have enormous strategic bombing in Vietnam. Go look up Operation Linebacker. (The second one, that is)
>Died a virgin
>Hates Christianity
>Said a lot of rubbish
>Got rejected by his Russian sweetheart
>>1859700
He used to fuck prostitutes because his retarded doctor told him it would ease his headache. Most people thought he caught syphilis because of that. He most likely had a brain tumor. Anyway, I agree, he was a neckbeard.
I've noticed a trend among narcissistic people really liking Nietzsche and even using his quotes as an excuse for their parasitic behavior.
I admit that if there is any merit in his "philosophy", I would miss it due to the mental connections I've formed between him and said NPD-fucks. But I also recognize that there might be something there.
So.. is there anything of real.. actual merit there? Or is it mostly an excuse for entitled, do-no-wrongs?
>>1859700
>Died a virgin
Mate he fucked whores all the time.
What would be the Muslim equivalent of one, holy, catholic and apostolic church?
I'm writing a short story where the Catholic Church becomes full Muslim after a fictional Third Vatican Council.
I'm thinking that since Islam doesn't have apostles, but prophets, something on the lines of one, holy, ecumenical prophetic church
>>1859629
>Catholic Church becomes full Muslim after a fictional Third Vatican Council
kys
>>1859635
t. butthurt Catholic
>>1859629
An attempt was made at the very beginning, but then they started to dispute the succession and, thus, the Shiites became separated from the Sunnites.
The best you can do is maken Eastern Orthodoxy-like system (which has happened, see Shiite Iran, but is unlikely to spread.)
Why are the Germans so tough?
>>1859585
Big shrek like jaws make them hard to knock out
You need to be tough to survive and stay nonconquered right in the fertile center of europe everybody has acess too.
>>1859585
They're not. They're the national equivalent of a dumbass who goes to the pub every weekend, gets shitfaced, tries to fight an entire football team at once, gets his ass kicked, and pats himself on the back for taking the long odds.
>We set out with the barbarians, and arrived at Sardica, which is thirteen days for a fast traveller from Constantinople. Halting there we considered it advisable to invite Edecon and the barbarians with him to dinner. The inhabitants of the place sold us sheep and oxen, which we slaughtered, and we prepared a meal. In the course of the feast, as the barbarians lauded Attila and we lauded the Emperor, Bigilas remarked that it was not fair to compare a man and a god, meaning Attila by the man and Theodosius by the god. The Huns grew excited and hot at this remark. But we turned the conversation in another direction, and soothed their wounded feelings; and after dinner, when we separated, Maximin presented Edecon and Orestes with silk garments and Indian gems....
>banter 1500 years ago went too far and almost got this guy and his buds killed at the hands of butthurt barbarians
Got any more interesting first-hand accounts like this, guys?
http://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/priscus.html
>>1859573
they still worshiped the emperor as a god at this time?
>>1859618
Maybe the pope had declared him a saint?
>>1859646
>and Theodosius by the god
i don't think that implies sainthood
Is social darwinism a big load of ideological shit auto legitimized by distorted interpretation of scientific results ? Or is pure unregulated concurrence between individuals the only way to create the conditions of innovation, rational progress and betterment of the specie ?
>>1859535
yes what ?
>>1859548
It's both
From a practical viewpoint, moral arguments aside.
He literally did nothing wrong
>>1859524
I felt about the same..
>>1859519
Other colonies did similar things but he took it way too far. Even if you argue negligence it still wouldn't absolve him of anything.
>hurr Russians used zerg rush tactics
when will this retarded meme end?
>>1859402
Probably never. You have a tremendous amount of misinformation about WW2 in the public's consciousness, and none of it seems to be going away anytime soon.
the russians didn't but the germans did.
>>1859402
They did, a lot.. You slavophile apologists are funny..
Were it not for Hitler, who do you think would have been history's greatest villain, who everyone would be literally and figuratively compared to?
Stalin
>>1859383
There probably wouldn't be a single one, absent some other figure who is generally blamed for starting a world war. You'd more likely get a larger cast of regional villains.
Gotta say Stalin
WW2 could easily have been against the USSR with Hitler as the good guy
if natives had learned to make steel from the norse, adapted their military tactics,and the whole continent had overall advanced to the iron age, would it have made a difference later?
The guns and steel parts of guns steel and germs is a meme.
Disease made literally all the difference. It wouldn't have mattered if their weaponry and tactics were somehow superior to the Europeans because smallpox was a fucking extinction level event to the natives.
They still wouldn't have resistance to old world diseases because of lack of domestication. Europe had unique environmental factors that caused its inhabitants to grow into some of the greatest civilizations on Earth. Read this book if you get the chance.
>descended from NZ. BORING.
>descended from rich Jewish Germans. MEH.
>Descended from French. Pretty cool.
>descended from Scotts. My Scottish grandfather was also a major spy in cold war. Pretty cool.
Why could I not be descended from itallions, or the Greeks, or the mighty Brits?
Help me.
>>1859226
Who gives a fuck about heritage? It's meaningless, unless you are discriminated because of it.
>>1859226
>muh heritage
There is nothing less interesting than wanking over heritage.
Why are modern people so harsh on the Middle Ages for the witch hunts?
I don't see any witches around anymore. Do you?
>>1859113
Jews
the middles ages weren't when witch hunts took place.
the majority of the witch hunts were in the 17th Century, 200-250 years after the end of the middle ages.
>>1859113
>He thinks Wiccans won't put us in the pot as soon as they remember where they put the recipe.
What is the source of all evil in the world? Greed? Sadism? Lust for power? Supernatural entities?
Selfishness.
Turks
Myself.