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>>1360617
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism

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Yup just watch some of the 20's movies

>>1360628
So 19th century Araboos basically?

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>>1360582
>wasn't the republic better?

>>1360582
>wasn't the corrupt and inefficient senate better then the glorious Augustus

>>1360582

Cucks like cults of personality.

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>>1360449
>be protestant
>truly believe in god
>live a life of sin and debauchery
>become a serial killer with hundreds of victims
>thanks to protestantism, end up in heaven

Seems good

>>1360469
Reminder that Catholics must believe the same thing as Lutherans, or else

>>1358946

Unless you're an atheist, of course. Then you get to go to heaven without believing in anything.

>>1360480
Reminder that if you are literally Hitler but believe in God, you will go to Heaven according to protestantism

>>1360426
Theres a high chance it was based on an event that happened even if the story itself didn't happen

They didn't believe Troy was real.

>IT'S ALL MYTHOLOGY WAKE UP SHEEPLE

Then they found it.

ILION/TROY IS BYZANTIUM/CONSTANTINOPLE/ISTANBUL.

Wew, anybody?

>>1360341
>reconquista of the Byzantium
Crusades are what destroyed and allow the Byzantium to be conquered in the first place.
Latins and greek were seriously at each others throats for the whole duration of the crusades.

>>1360461
I know about 4th crusade and all that come after. I was thinking after the fall of Byzantium, well in into 16th century, because you had religious turmoil and population boom in western Europe that blow their steam on Americas.

>>1360228
Depends of the type, the nationality and the era you're talking about.
Note that I'll mostly talk about France because this is what I studied.

In France, there were always bands of "routiers", local soldiers who would form huge bands moving from village to village until they found an employ during a private war. After a big conflict, like the one between Philip Augustus and John Lackland, they could have been awarded castles or even be knighted.

The more "professional" bands of mercenaries must have been the Genoese, highly paid, trained together, living together roman-style, with their valets and their crossbows. They would leave Genoa, follow the King, fight, and then head back home once the war is finished. Doesn't mean the french liked them. At Crécy, when they retreated, they were cut down by the frog knights.

But overall, mercenaries have always been a pain in the ass. In the XVth Century, they were nicknamed the "écorcheurs" (The flayers), because they were huge bands of soldiers, some of them were even knights, who would go from village to village, and force the peasants to feed them, to give them shelter and everything, looting and stealing so that they could still keep a living.
Mercenary bands were mostly nomadic. They were generally united under one big leader, a "pack wolf" if you will, who would have to be very charismatic. In theory they only follow the guy who pay them, the problem is that sometimes the King would have no more money to feed them, and then they were off to pillage and ruin the countryside.
In fact, it was at such a point, that peace was even more ruinous than war from France. In the XIVth Century, the Marshall of France Du Guesclin had to move away all of the mercenary bands that were plaguing France ; He could not destroy them, so he just took them with him into Spain.

Well my knowledge of Mercenaries is mostly about the sort you'd find in antiquity, mainly the Hellenistic period 323BC to 31BC.

Greece was over populated, and many men would migrate to the Hellenic states of Egypt or the Seleucids. These men would be granted land in return for military service obligations, typically as cavalry or in the phalanx. However they were not mercenaries, they were not paid a wage, their "pay" was the farm they'd been given.

The other type of Greek who did want to leave Greece, but not settle, became a mercenary, and there were hundreds of thousands of them. They would typically join a mercenary company, just like in Medieval times. They were generally always trained as either Thureophoroi, or Thorakitai. These troops use a spear and sword and light oval shield, they are mobile troops, able to skirmish with javelins or fight in a sort of formation, the Thorakitai are Thureophoroi except they wear armour. Essentially they're a very versatile band of soldiers, extremely useful to any leader, unlike the effective but inflexible phalanx that made up the core of a Greek army. Some exceptions were the famous Cretan archers, hiring themselves out as not just archers but capable in light melee as well, and of course the Galatians, who would form their own mercenary bands, and were very popular in use across the Greek world, I guess they were a form of shock troops to be used at the right moment.

Mercenaries were simply called "Paid troops" in Ancient Greek, which itself proves that getting a wage was a rare thing, considering almost all troops who were paid were mercenaries. In fact, mercenaries sometimes comprised up to 75% of an army, the smaller Greek states, lacking in manpower but having plenty of money, had almost entirely mercenary armies. They were less of a problem than the roving mercenaries of the middle ages, as they were more akin to a standing army. The mercenary band would soon find itself in employment and on a permanent payroll, they were often stationed on garrison duty and employed for many years. The line between mercenary and soldier can sometimes become blurred, especially when you have mercenaries who are actually the nationality of the nation they are fighting for, but ultimately they are mercenaries as if their pay stopped for any reason, they simply left.

Some mercenaries got to very high ranks within the military they fought for and would then go on to start their own mercenary bands, we know this from some funeral stele found recording their lives.

>>1360200
The Ubermensch is a stoic by his very nature

>>1360200
Read the Enchiridion and the works of Seneca. Marcus Aurelius too.
Also look into Epicureanism. The letter to Menoeceus pretty much summarized that philosophy.

You start with Stoicism by starting with the Pre-socratics, then going to Plato and Aristotle. Only then will you be ready

Are you actually looking to practice buddhism? You can just look online for the basic principles of zen buddhism and meditation. You should look online for a local meditation center to learn the proper technique though.

The Way of Zen - Alan Watts

>>1361112
>Alan Watts
Disgusting.

1) you're using it in mobile

Dumb phoneposter

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Anything actual constructive criticisms?

>>1359919
Being unified, not being cannibals, not believing in mana, not using slave labor.

The musket Wars would have never happened.

>>1359930
What has being cannibals, using slave labor, and believing in mana got to do with it?

>>1359919
Why bother? New Zealand is the only place where the British were actually decent to the natives, and the Maori loved them.

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they were actually viking berserkers

>>1359827
Some Roman historian mention a tribe of slavs that wear wolf furs and change into wolfs at night.

>>1359827
Herodotus, Greek historian and traveler, writing in 5th century BC about a folk living around Thrace;

>The Neuroi practise the Scythian customs: and one generation before the expedition of Dareios it so befell them that they were forced to quit their land altogether by reason of serpents: for their land produced serpents in vast numbers, and they fell upon them in still larger numbers from the desert country above their borders; until at last being hard pressed they left their own land and settled among the Budinoi. These men it would seem are wizards; for it is said of them by the Scythians and by the Hellenes who are settled in the Scythian land that once in every year each of the Neuroi becomes a wolf for a few days and then returns again to his original form. For my part I do not believe them when they say this, but they say it nevertheless, and swear it moreover.

They were having trouble occupying China as it was. Their last encounter with the Soviets was a smashing failure. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Khalkhin_Gol)

There also wasn't anything they could take from the soviets that would immediately aid their war effort like the Oil they desperately needed that could be found readily in the Dutch Indies.

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They already fought the Russkies in 1939 and got BTFO so they signed a nonaggression pact. Also they were busy fighting the Chinese and Americans and Australians.

Also what >>1359818 said. They had already occupied half of Siberia in the 1920s and got jack shit from it. Instead they invaded Indochina, Singapore, and Indonesia to get that sweet, sweet oil.

>>1359818
The simple illuminations a game of Hearts and Iron can teach you.

Fuck you, I am not dealing the 1000 pound steel gorilla that is the USSR until I finish with also immense but theoretically far easier China.

>If I had to baptize a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone round his neck and push him over with the words I baptize thee in the name of Abraham.

>Like the drivers of donkeys, who have to belabor the donkeys incessantly with rods and whips, or they will not obey, so must the ruler do with the people; they must drive, beat throttle, hang, burn, behead and torture, so as to make themselves feared and to keep the people in check.

>Moses is an executioner, a cruel lictor, a torturer a torturer who tears our flesh out with pincers and makes us suffer martyrdom . . . Whoever, in the name of Christ, terrifies and troubles consciences, is not the messenger of Christ, but of the devil . . . Let us therefore send Moses packing and for ever.

>It does not matter what people do; it only matters what they believe.

>If we allow them - the Commandments - any influence in our conscience, they become the cloak of all evil, heresies and blasphemies

>One should learn Philosophy only as one learns witchcraft, that is to destroy it; as one finds out about errors, in order to refute them

>It is more important to guard against good works than against sin.

>Reason is the Devil's handmaid and does nothing but blaspheme and dishonor all that God says or does.

>St. Augustine or St. Ambrosius cannot be compared with me.

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>>1359784
>>>St. Augustine or St. Ambrosius cannot be compared with me.
>>>St. Augustine cannot be compared with me.

>>1359846
BANTZ

>>1359741
The project looks interesting, but I feel like it would be hard to effectively reach a consensus. This is a little more complicated than writing a novel, for example. Perhaps if this happened on /his/ it would need a legitimate starting point, like IRL Earth in the year 50,000 BC or some shit

>>1359741
I imagine it would take a lot of procedural simulations

>>1359741
Tbh you should take this to /tg/, it's up their alley.

>>1359720
Very little but that graph is wonky because it groups all the kingdoms and shit into 1 group but that doesn't detract from the earlier point.

>chart conveniently ends at 1950

>>1359720
>imperialist powers
vs
>part of an imperialist power

Wow holy shit I never would have anticipated this