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>>914096
Did they have no sense of archaeology?

>>914096
>>914110
They didn't really understand, they just figured armour had been the same. Not sure why they didn't go and look at Trajans column or any of the other monuments showing soldiers though. But then movies today get it totally fucking wrong so its mostly a case of only us historical autists giving a shit.

Look at renaissance and medieval art about Biblical themes, it has ancient Israelites straight up prancing around in renaissance garb and Jerusalem looking like Rome.

> popes pagan fish god dagon hat

>Jews have never done anything wrong

>the average poor white southerner was fighting for slavery

>communism is a economic system

>cultural Marxism is tinfoil hat

>>914077
I hate that. According to arm chair historians almost all pieces of armour and weapons were ceremonial.

I've heard people say that the plumes and feathers on ancient helmets weren't actually worn in battle, when they obviously were.

I've even had someone try to tell me that the Greek muscle cuirass armour was never actually worn in battle because it was too heavy. They weigh like 6kg and its spread across the torso, its fucking nothing, modern soldiers can be in up to 30kg equipment.

The most famous and annoying of course are those who try to claim the Lorica Segmentata was never used in battle and was just a parade piece. Yes lets just ignore the fact that it is found all over the Roman world, though mostly in Europe, and almost always at battle sites and military bases.

>>914053
yes... the only reason the people in britain wanted to destroy argentina over the falklands, is that the argentinian national television broadcasted captured british troops lying handcuffed on the side of the road being humiliated... The biggest shame for any brit possible

Yes, short of an absolute useless weakling. No government is going to let it's territory be annexed or its citizens subjugated without a fight. It sends a message to every other country around you.

>>914053
What's the point having a military if you don't use it lol. I think a more beta PM would have spent an extended amount of time in diplomacy and would eventually be forced to use military means to take back the islands.

> Danes ever being relevant enough
Next time you would shit on Romania or something?

>>914026
>he thinks the french resistance did shit before the allies landed

>>914026
Because the French had one of the largest and best equipped armies in the world, and Denmark had been a tiny irrelevancy since the eternal Anglo got them.

>>913569
*100 years ago

>>913569
Yes, because nationalists never shut up about it

>inb4 t. Mehmet

>>913580
What do you mean by that?
What Nationalists speak about it?
I honestly don't know

>>913521
Christians don't have the same God as Jews.

>>913521
There is speculation the Jewish religion was Henotheistic before it became monotheistic. The fact that Phoenician lore still makes its way into the Torah also points to that.

>>913549
Mental gymnastics my YHWHist friend

>muh unit 731

No, They deserve 10 nuclear bombs like that

大日本帝国は間違って何もしませんでした。

>>913298
No. But seeing as the war was fucking disgusting anyway it's just another thing to add on to the list.

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>>911988
>picture
the fuck's going on with germany

>>911991

Looks like a Napoleonic era map

>>911991
>Not seeing the french occupation of Savoy and The Netherlands
>Austria-Hungary owns half of Italy, but not Naples

This is clearly during Napoleonic Wars, you plebeian

So /his/ , why does the Patriarch of Istanbul still calls himself the Patriarch of Constantinople?

>>911921
I suppose it's in the hope that some day Constantinople will be regained from the Turks.

Maybe that day will come. It would be nice.

>Eastern Orthodoxy
>can't figure out how to proselytize
>can't stand up to the Tsar
>can't convert the Mongols
>can't convert the Poles
>can't convert the Lithuanians
>have done nothing of relevance for centuries
>refuse to call out Tsarist abuses
>refuse to call out Soviet abuses
>supposed to at least be an opiate of the masses, but can't even manage that since Russia's suicide rate is sky-high
>churches are ugly

It's pretty funny how contrarians look to Orthodoxy as if it's better than Catholicism, much less better than something like Episcopalianism.

waterloo

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>>911631

Despite being made into parodies on youtube, its rather well done.

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>>911631

You bet it does. Quit declaring war on me you cunt. I'm already bordered with Attila.

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Best swedish king.

Was he a proto-American?

>We're doing this to protect our Protestant brothers from Imperial tyranny

>30 % of Germany's population dies as a result

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>>912603
>Egyptians.
>Shitstomped by Seaniggers.
They defeated them in the great battle of the nile delta.

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Well they were entire tribes on the move. I think the best explanation for the collapse is social unrest. The great Bronze age kingdoms had enormous populations for the time period. Mycenae, Pylos, and Tyrins dwarfed any of the classical Greek city-states. You had a godlike king ruling from his palace and his noble charioteers that the king ate with and probably knew each of them by name. Then you had masses of lightly armed infantrymen who were only needed during times of war. What happens when there is a long peace between the great kingdoms and highly mobile tribes disrupt the fragile trade networks that are the heart's blood of these gigantic cities?

>>912603
>>912737
They look like they came straight out of a jrpg

I see the fat Churchill inherited his puffy eyes from this guy.

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>>911513
>disdain for noobs.jpg

Victors can be vindictive

>>912558
It would've been a pretty terrible idea to not punish Germany.

>>912560
>>912564
It's so harsh and humiliating. It led to WWII.

>>911424
Italy suffers from unifying late compared to other powers and having a largely rural south which drags down the entire country.

The simple, but inadequate reason is that Italy lacked the industrial base of any of the other major European powers.

>>911438
But why were they victorious in WW1? You just don't see the mass amount of surrendering in that war that you do in the 2nd.

>>911424
Both those were serious factors. Another was the internal politics of the army.

See, the Italian state formed out of the kingdom Piedmont acquiring all of Italy, in the same way that Prussia acquired all of Germany. But there were significant differences.

Prussia was significantly more invested in the German project, represented a much larger share of Germany, and was much more willing to share control over the Army.

The Italian Army, by contrast remained the refuge of Piedmontese nobility, and officers who kissed up to Piedmontese nobility, and above all the King. Now, obviously this is likely to prevent meritocracy and therefor actually good officers in command.

But it also meant that the officer corp, and control of the army, was a last bastion of an elite group that was otherwise politically negligible. The result is that the officer corp regarded their troops as worse enemies then the other armies.

Remember, this is a conscript army: a decent chunk of your enlisted men are communists, and in the eyes of these officers, all of them might as well be. You don't trust them with initiative, with independent expertise in weaponry, etc. That shit is dangerous. Your job as an officer is to treat them like beasts of burden, and make sure they fulfill exactly what you tell them obediently.