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>>1515739
Achilles. It's not like we have any way of knowing about how skilled individuals were before recent history, so we may as well just go all the way with someone who almost definitely didn't exist.

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>>1515739
Too simple

They used unconventional tactics that caught these major empires off guard and they were mobile, they didn't have a single city that you could attack as they moved their entire villages and cities with them in a massive horde.

Speed, tactical flexibility, arrows+horses are hard to catch and force into pitched battles. Not to mention that steppe nomands tend to be tough people anyway.
I'm sure some anon knows more about horse nomads than me.

>>1515685
Horsemen + Archers = What the fuck you've turned my asshole inside out

>What the fuck was his problem?

He had different values to your bitch ass

>Seriously, did he just invade everybody just for the hell of it?

Pretext: Invaded persia as revenge for the Greeks

True Reason: Glory

>How is he anything but the bad guy?

Because he's ~GREAT~

>Why does anyone celebrate this person?

Because he's ~GREAT~

>>1515636
too much sex drive. common affliction amongst hommasectuals. makes us over-achieve, if not a little rash.

>>1515636
"I wanna be the very best like no one ever was"
- Alex "catch all the semen" of Macedon

because the traditional form of sexual relationship is between the dominant male and submissive woman, and the first kind of homosexuality you mentioned simply replaces the gender of the woman with the male while keeping the same form of power dynamics

and when sexual relations is between the dominant and submissive, being fucked (penetrated, etc) means that you are viewed as submissive and unmasculine

since life back then was much tougher than modern life the value of masculinity was extremely high, by submitting in the sex act you lower your value in the eyes of society

when some barely pubescent boy submits to his teacher in the sex act it's okay because he's not a man yet anyway, when a grown-ass man bends over he's surrendering his masculinity

/lgbt/ must be a really boring place.

>>1515513
>when some barely pubescent boy submits to his teacher in the sex act it's okay because he's not a man yet anyway, when a grown-ass man bends over he's surrendering his masculinity

You just keep repeating yourself, though. You keep saying "because masculinity was valued", but you don't really explain the 'why' as to how being the penetrative partner would have been submissive, or at least, why the ancients - and even some today - still see it as a sign of transgressing on the idea of manliness.

In other words, you keep telling me "being penetrated was unmanly", but I don't see a reason for 'why'.

They most likely knew of their existence but they generally just lumped all barbarians together as Gauls, Celts or Germans

>Romanians are not slavs

Yeah, we get it, your Romans...

>>1515400
W-wat? :c

>theological propositions
>falsifiable

Pick one

What even is the point of theology, obviously religion isn't real so no matter how much you build it up none of it matters.

>oh but God thinks that *latin term* qualifies as THIS such and such category of rituals determined by the conclave of...
lol

>>1515285

>language
>falsifiable

Pick one.

The Shogunate would've been brought down sooner.

The entire reason they shut down foreign trade was because their former enemies, who were completely removed from positions of power in the government, instead sought power by trade.

>>1515226
They could potentially end up like China.
On the other hand should they be able to
do it correctly it's not hard to imagine them
becoming extremely wealthy as they were
abundant in some resources valuable to
European merchants and the like.

>>1515226

Tokugawa Ieyasu was pretty much a promoter of exploration and openness and even commissioned a few European style ships.

However, his grandson or thereabouts had a conversation with a Spanish priest who showed him a map of all their colonies so he chimped out and banned Christianity and open trade except for the Dutch.

>>1515171
Culturally maybe, but the idea that china at any time held direct or even indirect control over all this area is ridiculous

With the exception of Vietnam, SEA was never within the realm of Chinese civilization

They were indianized states

>Thailand and Burma are Chinese
Bullshit. Just because they are descended or related to an ethnic group that was eventually conquered by China's borders doesn't mean they are "Chinese" in any meaningful sense.

The rest is alright, though.

Liberal Quakerism and Unitarian Universalism (They both have 100%)

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>>1515100
Fuck im an Anglo now

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I'm not a Christian so I answered honestly and got Unity Church lmao

They didn't manage to pay the money some powerless pretender promised so they all had it coming.

>>1514970
>ever thinking a pretender had the power to speak for an entire Empire

My point still stands: idiot barbarians.

Also:
>not knowing about the Venetian Crusade
>not knowing about the Sack of Thessalonica
>not knowing about Dandolo's well-documented pettiness and inferiority complex

Learn history, faggot, instead of spouting memes.

>>1514957
>ask for an elite force of knights to aid armies
>fucking savage westerners were too busy slaughtering each other to count
>an entire fucking army moves up outside my gate
>fucking damnit

Yes. Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hungary

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All you need to know.

>>1514962
Wow thank you, this is a wonderful website.

What was his fucking problem?
What did he mean by this?
Who was in the wrong here?
What was his endgame?
Thoughts, /v/?

>>1514886
Hmmm really makes you think

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>>1514844

getting your ass fucked as a boy opens your mind

>>1514844
>it's an "Ancient people were gay" thread

Seriously, where did people get this idea? Even if it happened sometimes, it doesn't necessarily mean it was the norm or that everybody accepted it during the entire period those civilizations existed or that there weren't people who hated it.
What is the evidence for this?
And no, HBO Spartacus doesn't count.

>>1514863
listen I'm just saying it's a bit suspicious that all these societies perceived as scientifically advanced are also thought to have practices pedastry. even Leonardo da Vinci apparently diddled some kids.

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What factual knowledge do you contain to make this statement? Please elaborate and formally state your sources. Some Indian boy named Ishaan Tharoor is not a legitimate source.

>>1514769
Of course he wasn't, only white people can be racist.

>>1515154
>Implying organisations like Nation of Islam and Black Lives Matter, were not racists

>>1514715
Alex only fugged boipucci

>>1514715
""""Macedonia""""

>>1514715
>Filthy Bulgarians
>Alexander
Pick one