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I put money on the zulu. Aztecs had only one more or less effective weapon, a stick with obsidian chips. Zulus had metal tipped lances.

Zulus had a more developed martial tradition than the Aztecs and had steel and guns, but I guess that's all they've got going for them.

Both were shit and got BTFO by the white man, but here's my opinion:

Aztec weapons were not supposed to kill, their weapons were made of wood so they could knock out their enemies and take them prisoners. Shitty weapons, that's the reason they got destroyed by the European males

I guess Zulu wins

>>1298271
>So, should all catholics just be shot on sight?
Why stop there?

I am pretty sure to have read research reports that affirm that pedophilia is no more common in the Catholic Church than in various Protestant Churches.

>>1298331
>independent studies

>>1303333
You have to understand that following the mongol invasions, the whole territory now controlled by Russia was empty of any people.

There were 7 million russians in the year 1600. There are like what, 150 million now? That's a big increase.

Compared to that, the Bengal delta has always been highly populated.

>>1303333
Climate

Culture

Religion

Partition of India

Finally, Russia has been more developed (despite the memes) than most of the world for one of the longest periods in history. 1900-present. It just is in the bad middle-income trap where people are developed enough to not have big families, but not developed enough to stay in Russia or for a lot of immigrants to come.

>>1303386
>for a lot of immigrants to come.
they get a lot of migrant workers from central asian, post-soviet republics to work there.

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>>1303033
there is no essence at all

>>1303049
Based Buddhism. Funny you should bring it up the other day I was reading the sutras of bodhisattva Kshitigarbha
who has dedicated his life through countless around and rebirths to the liberation of all sentient brings. He could have become Buddha but he said he wouldn't until all beings are enlightened and the hell-worlds are emptied.

>>1303086
*countless aeons

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>>1302939
Caesar, naturally.

>>1302939

Didn't Pompey get destroyed by a volcano?

>>1303002
assuming not troll

Pompey Magnus, the general, son-in-law, and eventual enemy of Caesar, who fled to Alexandria after losing to Caesar, only to be decapitated by Ptolemy's thugs, seeking Caesar's favor, have his head sent pickled to Caesar, at which point Caesar weeps because he wanted to spare his frenemy.

Not Pompeii, the Roman territory that got destroyed by a Volcano

You're a ming guy

>>1303008
For Zhou

>>1303008
>Ming
>Tang Taizong
>TANG

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>>1302496
there are people in african cave paintings swimming that are about 5-10k years old in what is now the sahara.

black folks been swimming for awhile.

>>1302496
The Gemara in Brachot has a rabbinical argument whether or not teaching your kids to swim is part of the minimum requirement of parental care owed to offspring.

I'm guessing no.

No.

Tao Te Ching

Capital

>>1302472
If you're going for an Eastern text, why not the Analects?

>>1302376
If I attacked Moscow would you die?

>>1302383
It would be extremely painful

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>mfw /tv/ memes invading us once again

>>1302354
>do my history homework

>>1302370
ye na ye na

>>1302354
im assuming becasue he was a man with talent and quite strong political convictions who was dissatisfied with the course of political events of the era.

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>>1302317
If we revolt against our own lords, they'll put us down! What the hell do you think you're doing?!

Just how shitty did your thread have to be to get deleted on /his/ of all places?

>>1302325
I have an AR 15. Let them try.

>>1301646
Being German was his first mistake.

Bismarck or the Kaiserreich?

Imperial Germany's weaknesses, that they might've been able to mitigate, all come to Bismarck's decisions. Stuff like their lack of colonies was mostly out of their control, but they kinda tried. Far as I'm concerned, the Imperial State had three distinct issues: particularism, geographic antagonism, and its very constitution.

I once read an article that cited a discussion between French and Russian diplomats in the early 19th century and what would happen if Germany were to unite. They quickly deduced that Germany would expand somewhat at France's expense, and greatly at Russia's. Given that these notions preceded German unification by decades, it's safe to say that German relations with Russia and/or France were always going to end up dogshit eventually. Only thing they got wrong was that mauling France was the catalyst for German unification rather than the result.

German particularism was also a significant issue. In the war between Prussia and Austria, North-German states that didn't go along with Prussia were straight-up annexed for their behavior. This left a lot of Prussians feeling really anti-Prussian. There was also the issue of the Empire, technically, being a formation of individual states with varying degrees of autonomy ranging from the post-office to their own armies. Hitler, for example, was a member of the Bavarian army. There's also the distinct issue of Bismarck viewing Germany as exclusively German and Protestant. His kulturkampf blew the fuck up in his face. He thought he was finding a way to attack the church, but he accidentally armed the socialists with legislative means to attack religion itself.

>>1301646
Unifying Germany was a mistake.

>>1301621
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY

>>1301621
A Georgian who thought he could rule Russia without consequences

>>1301621

His mustache was too glorious for this world.

>>1301595
Fuck Germany, go back to /pol/

>>1301595
Literally runs it into the ground with his empire fantasy and takes the lessons from its only successful statesman and throws them out the window

who cares lmao

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>>1301581
You know what board you're on right?

>>1301572
I've always wanted to see the movie Waterloo personally. Everyone goes on about how accurate it is, and I don't think M&B NW is a good substitute.

>>1301572
No. Wellington was the only person who could have beaten Napoleon since he was an absolute madman. If you look at what he really did ( not what most people tell you, that's a major myth) you'll realize he was probably smoking some shit.