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Aztec/Mesoamerican Thread 2.0 2016-08-31 23:16:57 Post No.1629339
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Aztec/Mesoamerican Thread 2.0
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Another Aztec/Meso thread, last one seemed pretty successful.
Aztec military organization was actually quite complicated. The army varied in size depending on how many soldiers were levied from tributary provinces, but the largest recorded size was 400,000.
Battalions of 8000 were split into companies, and then squads under the command of a captain. Troop costume was dependent on individual rank and varied heavily within the same unit, but units used similar colors and banners to maintain cohesion.
Highly skilled units used obsidian lined broadswords that were one or two handed. Levies and low skilled soldiers used obsidian lined halberds, as well as bows and slings. Blunt weapons were, however, used by both military classes.
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In battle, the Aztecs attempted to surround and outflank their enemies. They almost always engaged enemy forces with superior numbers, in order to maintain a strong center.
They were known for feint retreats. By intentionally retreating their center line, the charging enemy would be drawn into a double envelopment by Aztecs soldiers. Oftentimes, the Aztecs would dig foxholes and trenches in order to conceal elite units for surprise attacks and flanking maneuvers.
Following an exchange of projectile fire, elite units called Cuachicqueh were sent into battle first. They operated in pairs, and served as Mexica shock troops to cause chaos among enemy lines and potentially provoke them into a premature attack. After them came the first organized units of veteran soldiers, followed by levies and soldiers in training.
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The "Shorn Ones" were the most prestigious warrior society – their heads were shaved apart from a long braid over the left ear. Their bald heads and faces were painted one half blue and another half red or yellow. They served as imperial shock troops, and took on special tasks as well as battlefield assistance roles when needed.
Over six captives and dozens of other heroic deeds were required for this rank. They apparently turned down captaincies in order to remain constant battlefield combatants. Recognizable by their yellow tlahuitzli, they had sworn not to take a step backwards during a battle on pain of death at the hands of their comrades.
They were badass dudes. They NEEDED to fight in order to obtain and maintain their position in the order. The yellow fellow on the Codex is one of "shorn"
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So tell me about their cavalry arm.
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The Great Game
The Great Game was the struggle for power in Central Asia throughout the nineteenth century. It was mainly between two great and powerful empires, Russia and Great Britain. Russia had saw great potential there in the British colony of India. It was hoped that eventually, Russian troops would be able to pour into the various mountain passes found near the vulnerable North-West side of India, and then eventually conquer it. To do this of course, the Russians needed to get close to India and they did exactly that. Near the end of the Great Game, parts of Russia lay only 20 miles away from British India. The British did not stay entirely idle while this occurred. They decided that they needed to defend their Indian holdings. However this posed a great question, what lied beyond the British-Indian territories? In the early nineteenth-century, the British did not control those passes that the Russians might use, and they new almost nothing about the lands that lay there...
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They was a tribe in Afghanistan who would execute people by having women piss in their mouths.
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Uncharted Territory
With few of these vital lands on the maps, the British felt vulnerable. Throughout the Great Game explorers were sent from British India to chart out these lands. But exploration was dangerous, and many of these areas were either fiercly independent or practically lawless.
The first of these British explorers were Captain Charles Christie and Lieutenant Henry Pottinger, and like many of their future counterparts, they would stay in disguise throughout their journeys. They were tasked with exploring the area of Baluchistan. They introduced themselves to their Afghan bodyguards as workers for a Hindu master looking to buy horses. One would go towards Herat and the other to South Persia. As they made their way towards their respective destinations, they secretly gathered information. If they were found out, it would mean immediate death, as the areas they explored were wary of British rule.
The WW2 history books I have all point to one thing that, according to some individuals on some very biased board in this place, cannot be true. And I would like for some insight and opinions from you guys.
The book, referencing to the happenings prior to the beginning of the war in 1939, describes how a majority of the people living under the third Reich were against the war which was a source of preoccupation to Hitler and Co.
It makes a comment on how the people cherished Hitler the most when he came back with a diplomatic resolution, instead of a call to arms, like with the Czech deal.
So I ask you, is this true? What was the opinion on the war Hitler had been foreshadowing since its rise to the power?
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>>1674655
The German populace was uneasy about war with the great western powers until Germany btfo France. After that they were largely pro war
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>>1674655
Anyone who can achieve what they did in that picture is not wrong, in anything they do. They simply conflict with other ideals.
The way Hitler mobilized the German peoples is insanely awesome. You have to take away what he did, but Great Man is really a thing.
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>>1674667
By this logic, does that mean Muhammad couldn't be wrong in anything he did? His accomplishments and conquests are vast and his influence is felt 1500 years later
I've recently gotten into the US side of WWII. It's a lot different than what i initially expected. My original understanding was that the US always had the tech advantage but had to take their time building up their forces over the Atlantic. Now the way I see it is that the US had very quickly improved technologically till by the end of the war they were the most tech. superior (arguably thing with the Germans in terms of superiority).
My question is,\His\, what is your opinion on US arms and armor, and generally just US's involvement throughout WWII?
Pic related is a Sherman M4A3 "Easy 8"
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>>1674365
/his/ is even more contrarian than /pol/ and is rather Ameriphobic. Expect answers that are not academically sound.
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>>1674365
The infantry weapons weren't the absolute best, but they weren't shit and most importantly they were easy to make and easy to supply, which is the most important thing for equipping an army.
The Sherman in particular was very good at its main job of infantry support. American infantry almost always had a Sherman to support them when they needed it, and the Sherman also had a telephone in the back of the tank that let them have direct contact with the tank's crew. While it couldn't fight heavy tanks head on, with Allied aerial and artillery superiority it didn't need to.
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>>1674365
The biggest advantage the US had is that it could produce more material than anybody else. Some of the weapons they used were good, some were shit, but either way they had more than everybody else and that's a big advantage in a global war.
It also helped the US a lot that their homeland was geographically separated from the intense fighting, so they stayed intact while everybody else got torn up. This cemented the USA's transition to superpower status.
What did the Indo-Europeans actually look like? How did light features manage to almost completely (over 99%) dissapear from India where Indo-European languages are still spoken by hundreds of millions meanwhile Arabs, Anatolians, and other non-chink Turkics possess these traits in higher numbers?
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The PIE had dark hair, dark eyes, and pale to olive skin wherever they got pale anatolian farmer DNA
Later on light hair and eye DNA came south from somewhere in northeast europe/scandinavia
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>>1665635
Then how were these light features able to spread without the spread of Indo-European languages and vice-versa? Even Genghis Khan was known to have had red hair and green/hazel eyes
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>>1665622
Like a Circassians.
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>the Mona Lisa wasn't a well regarded painting until after it was stolen in 1911
Post other historical misconceptions spouted by pseudointellectuals
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"Stalin was bad"
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>>1668586
Truly we need the /pol/ subhumans to get the /leftypol/ subhumans off of here
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>>1668586
t, tanky pseudointellectual
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>It says He created in 6 days but He really meant 4.5 billion years
>God created through evolution, Genesis is just metaphors bro! :^)
What are the implications of this? How can Christian theology adopt this and accomodate the Fall and Original Sin?
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>>1664684
6000 years*
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>>1664684
Who gives a fuck, only 4chan users follow these wacky desert cults seriously.
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>>1664894
If Jesus truly rose from the dead - then pic related should be answered.
Because Omnipotent God would exist, and alongside a desert religion story he would just resurrect Jesus to fond his own religion on earth or just to give humans a sign that He truly exists.
But again why would I assume that particular story of Jesus resurrection of Jesus was literal and the omnipotent God violated the laws of this universe without breaking it while there are many other such miraculous stories that have many followers and could be a little more plausible.
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What is the truth about the witch hunts in early modern Europe? What was the real reason they were done?
It's not just because of superstition, right? I don't imagine people were that stupid to use that alone as a reason to kill people.
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they were the feminists
clearly our old relatives knew how to deal with that shit
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Imagine no religion.
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>>1650526
>they were the feminists
That's an interesting interpretation. Why do you think that?
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>An African was the father of Russian literature
I love little cultural crossovers like this
Like the Japanese in South America or the fact every alphabet on earth shares a common ancestor or how Japan's entire culture was built on adapting stuff from other nations .
Can we an intriguing cultural crosses thread?
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he was like 1/8 black
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>>1674650
>Like the Japanese in South America
Explain.
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>>1674687
Not the OP, but there are tons of Japanese people in South America, especially Brazil. This fact's not well-known by most Westerners.
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What if Africa was never colonized?
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>>1669809
It would be on par with the rest of Asia. European colonialism destroyed Africa.
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>>1669809
They would go a similiar route like japan. Being under european influence but slowly modernizing through trade and exchange of ideas
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Do you even believe yourselves cuck?
Black people have average IQ of 75 in Africa do you actually believe they could build and accomplish the same as Asians?
You are delusional
What was the thought process in this helmet's design?
It leaves the side of the head totally exposed and make crawling and going through squeezed areas much harder, and wouldve been incredibly useless in the winter.
Why didn't the brits create a variant of the Stahlhelm?
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>>1664289
It blocked shrapnel.
Brits didn't move in winter if they could help it.
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It's to protect you head from falling dirt, rocks, metal that got blown into the air by artillery
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Deflects bullets and falling debris
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GREETINGS, FUTURE CIVILIZATION.
I AM TIME TRAVELLER FROM SEPTEMBER 1939.
HOW DO WE WIN THE WAR?
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At no point did the nazis have a realistic chance of winning the war. Its pretty much a miracle the war lasted more than 2 years.
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Take care of the vermin infestation FIRST
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>>1664021
You burned that flag and joined the Glorious Worldwide Revolution!
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Because I will never know what it is, or what it could've been for me.
>tfw no gf
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Love is the sense of life, you aren't loved you might as well be dead...
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>>1671496
Baby don't hurt me
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how are you holding up lads?
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Tribalism. Is it human nature? How can we conquer it? Or should it?
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>>1666253
bigger guns, and more of them
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>>1666253
By admitting it to be a spook
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>we
You are being tribalist right there.
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What do you think? Is it still relevant, did your country still practice it (and how)?
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The U.S. still practices it even though it has no effect on crime rates. It's some sort of weird pagan ritual.
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Last person executed in my country, during peacetime, was in 1825.
I would not call death penalty relevant. It does not reduce the numbers and you pretty much force other citizens to be involved via proxy in the execution because a country is its citizens.
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>Is it still relevant
Rich thinking:
>How barbaric, the thought of being locked away with all those rapist and criminals would stop anyone from committing a crime. They don't even have T.V. in prison!
Poor thinking:
>Life sucks
>I should commit a crime, get away with it and i'l have some walking around money, get caught and I will end up in jail.
>In jail i'l get regular meals, be able to work out / play basket ball all day, and I can make some rich boy my bitch.
>Better not kill anybody though because I could get death row.