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>>3262819

Many Zoroastrians there. The Armenian nobility is basically Iranian. Close proximity.

>>3262819
>try

I always find modern Armenia's relatively good relations with Iran amusing. Its like the Turks beat them so hard they went crying to anyone who was even slightly less abusive, ie Russia and Persia.

>>3262819
Armenians were seen as kinsmen by the Persians in the same way they saw other Iranian people as part of the family of Aryans. On top of that, even when Armenia became nominally majority Christian, there was always a rather huge number of Armenian Zoroastrians there. And historically even around the time of the Achaemenids if not the Medes before them, the Iranians have had a large influence on their culture.

>>3262905
I mean, this isn't really true in the context you are saying here. Armenia was always seen as a country/nation/state/people that had a lot in common with the Iranians. It produced a lot of good horse breeds, Armenians always had major influence and standing in the Achaemenid, Arsacid, and Sassanian dynasties and many powerful Armenian Zoroastrians were part of the Wuzargan. You could also find that Armenians were the largest ethnic group in the Iranian empires military after Iranians themselves.

Even going into the Safavid, Afrashid, and Qajar period they had decent relations.

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>>3262727
Smart man. Knew not to fuck with America.

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>>3262727
>What is the best part of Meiji
LEFTYPOL BTFO
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Treason_Incident

Why can't socialists into Japan when capitalists did very well in post-meiji Japan?

>>3262727
He liked to wrestle and kick ass.

He said something once and people quote it everytime you talk about the Polish-Llithuanian Commonwealth

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>>3262604
He didn't like to sleep it seems.

worked a lot of people

>walt basically had to tell him he was heisenberg

No, he was a dipshit.

>>3262593
Populism always has and always will be a thing. "Predicting it" is about as impressive as Nostradamus predicting that floods and famines will happen in the future.

I don't really understand what is meant by decline. If we use the example of Rome, it seems like all the "degenerate" stuff was all around the end of the republic and the early empire, when the projected their power as far as it would go. Even when Rome fell, it was the austere west that collapsed and the decadent east that survived.

>>3262534
It collapses to nationalism and nothing changes at all.

>Byzaboos still exist

>>3262535
It could but I think theres a different WWII with the Byzantines and Russians allying against the British,French,Spanish,and whatever Germany is in that timeline.

>>3262425
No.

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>>3262425
Hmm, that's interesting, you have any more evidence to reinforce this theory even more?

>>3262425
Russian """"""Empire"""""""

>>3262347
I've never really looked into it in any depth, but Uranus would have made their position completely untenable, with the securing flank to their north crumbling like old mortar. I imagine they retreated across the Crimean peninsula or towards Rostov, since I never heard about them being wiped out. But like I said, I never checked into it in any detail.

>>3262361
Also exactly how many men were there in the caucasus on the soviet's side? Maybe there were inadequate german manpower

>>3262403
Your map mentions 8 armies; by 1942, I believe Soviets were averaging 6 divisions to an army, so we're talking 48ish divisions and about 10,000 men to an average division; so a bit under half a million.

But of course the divisions were not likely at full strength, and if they had cavalry and armor formations, these would be somewhat smaller, I'm sure an assemblage that large would have more than just infantry formations. I'd guess in the 380,000ish range, but again, I'm just working on general knowledge of Red Army operations and applying it to a specific instance here rather than doing real research.

Because the brief moment of living is more enjoyable if you act justly and be a good person.

Beating, torturing and occasionally genociding minority cultures is really stressful.

thats their problem, not yours

>>3262197
What few people know is that Mark Aurels meditations were never meant to be published.
The book is basically just notes he wrote to himself.

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>>3262184
>United
>South America
Bwahahaha the entire history of South America in the early modern to post modern age is civil wars, coups, and revolutions.
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If it weren't for the early death of Huayna Capac it would be less conflictive.

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Actually it should be more divided. I mean, i dont know how Brazil keep its union.

As for unification in the past, impossible. too much bad blood between pretty much most of south america.
The best you can get is what we have now, a somewhat aligned Union of South American Nations (with the exception of Venezuela), which is pretty much modeled around the EU, using the already existing structure of the Andean and the Mercosur tradeblocs and common currency and freedom of travel could be implemented as early as 2019

If I had my fingers crossed then I'm not really lying.

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stop abstracting morality from ordinary experience

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>>3262041

Hannibal's victories were notorious although his army escaped fairly unscathed

Battle of Heraclea and the Battle of Aculum

>>3261896
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad

>>3261873

Just watch Generation Kill TBQH.

>>3261886
This desu

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>>3261774

You try getting elephants on boats.

>>3261585

Getting elephants onto a boat sounds much easier than getting them to climb over mountains.

>>3261581
Rome had a huge advantage on the sea following the 1st Punic war and the wholesale destruction of the Carthaginian fleet there. If he tried to embark a force, there's every chance that it would be intercepted and wiped out en route; like that reinforcement attempt that Appian mentions.

>>3261362
>but somehow people always had something to subsist

Actualy, no. Not everyone who worked the land owned land, and I'm not talking about serfs. Rural laborers hired by owners of hugue amounts of land existed and, in some places of europe and the world, were the majority of working men. The life as one of this laborers was harsh as they needed to be constantly looking for work and often starved because they weren't hired.

>>3261362
>but somehow people always had something to subsist
If you ignore all the hundreds of millions of people who starved to death and the billions of people that died to preventable diseases then yeah it was a time of plenty. The idea that everything just werked and fell into place before the steam engine came and made everything too complicated is dumb. Stop romanticizing the past.

>>3263112
>Stop romanticizing the past.
Seems like a nerve was touched