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The Holy Roman Empire was not always as decentralized as it was in the late Habsburg era. You are just following Europa Universalis history.

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Excuse me, superior state coming through

>>843454
It was always decentralized, from the very start. It was more of a loose alliance based on clan affiliations than an actual ordered empire. One would have needed an extremely charismatic emperor to rule, seeing as other than that, nothing really compelled vassals to follow the head other than nominally.

>>843460
1797 best day of my life

>>843263
Noble savage never existed.

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Also they had no slavery. Without war they had no supply of slaves nor a need for metal weapons from mines worked by slaves.

>>843282
he might in the future though

because germans are like sand and get everywhere

>>843103
Because killing a bear could mean life or death in places where fat for calories and fur for warmth is important. Their prestige laid in those things and the predatory status that made them aggressive adversaries later augmented by their rarity.

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>>843114

So, basically, you're saying bears are awesome?

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One of the most iconic and
Coolest helmets

>>842621
That is copy from Sparta.

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>>842625
Looks more corinthian to me senpai
always loved them but fuck me the day I noticed that plumeless variants look like cock heads hurt me

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>>842556
He doesn't look like Nap.

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>>842581
Your country will be mine soon!

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Having one of the most badass statues ever helps too

>>842274
Age of Empires 2 (and more recently the HD version)

>Assacuck Creed
>/his/ approved

Only the maps/locations. With the characters and the story all accuracy goes out the window.

>>842274
I enjoy CK2 and Vicky 2 greatly desu.

>>842109
Christianity pretends to be a religion. In reality it is a political ideology.

>>842109
Yes. Morality is the subsequent suspension of society's virtues acting as a quintessential reminder of value.

A moral society can exist without religion.

>>842109
No shit Sherlock

>>841977
trench clearing operations were a big part of the western front.
if I recall, the germans made a big fuss about the Winchester 1897 as it was too effective at sweeping up trenches.

>>842010
how did they get across no mans land?

>>842030
By walking, dashing, running, taking cover, shooting their guns to cover others, advancing behind barrages, advancing with armor support, advancing with field gun support, advancing with mortar support, advancing behind smoke, advancing against lightly defended lines and so on and so forth.

Literally the same way people have conducted assaults for about a hundred years now.

>Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent

That's not how it works.

>>841455

Errr. Okay. I guess you solved it by saying "that's not how it works".

Congratulations for outfoxing all the great philosophers and theologians of all time.

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>>841446
The problem is that Epicurus and a great many understandings of God assume he still operates in the binary of good and evil.

God is totally beyond both good and evil. The destroyer is also a creator, where there is gain there is also lose.

>>841107
No, capitalism isn't as bad as the communists make it seem.

t. capital pro

>implying capitalism wasn't a necessary step forward that we must now move beyond

>>841107
>the average person today lives a life of material wealth that's vastly superior to the average lives of past generations, and every society that's brought into the global capitalist fold experiences the same boom when they enter
Capitalism is certainly an improvement on feudalism, yes. That doesn't mean there isn't a system that's better still.

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>>840634
Who cares about the Romanovs? They were all terrible average.

Now, the fact that the qt in black got killed by a communist assassin, now that's a tragedy.

>>840634
>Killing innocent kids
>Necessary

Choose 1.

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>open Wikipedia article "Bolsheviks"
>ctrl+f "Romanov"
>0 results

wew

Without these Chinese inventions, the SPREAD of Renaissance would have been extremely difficult. China invented not only gunpowder but also gun, cannon, rocket including multi-stage ones, both land and sea mines, bomb, even hand grenade. All these Chinese military technologies were furiously copied by Europeans. Can you imagine the modern military without these Chinese inventions? Even the European Enlightenment was heavily influenced by many of Chinese thoughts. As a matter of fact, many Enlightenment thinkers such as Montaigne, Leibniz, Voltaire, Quesnay, etc. were enamored with the ancient Chinese idea of mandate of heaven that essentially declared that an UNFIT king should be overthrown. These European scholars thought the mandate of heaven idea was much more enlightening than the rigid and primitive European idea of the divine right of king to rule forever no matter what. This Chinese idea of mandate od heaven greatly influenced the French Revolution. Also these European thinkers had a high opinion of the Chinese bureaucratic system based on meritocracy through civil service examinations, while denouncing the privileges of the European hereditary aristocracy. Even the concept of laissez-faire was borne in the ancient China. Both Taoists and Confucian scholars believed in little or no state intervention in economic activities. From about 2nd century BC on, Chinese dynasties practiced free market economy while only intervening from time to time in iron and salt enterprises and also by and large they kept taxes low. The Chinese idea of laissez-faire greatly influenced the French economist Quesnay who in turn influenced Adam Smith. Also in the 18th century all things Chinese were a rage in Europe. Europeans copied Chinese architecture, interior decoration, tea-drinking, etc. As you can see it was the Europeans copying Chinese, not the other way around.

It's no accident China and India were the two biggest economies in the world from the 1st century to the end of the 18th century. Also China invented blast furnace, coking - coal, so called- Bessemer Steel Process, Siemens' Steel process, drilling techniques for oil and natural gas ( China drilled for natural gas and transferred it through pipelines for heating and lighting starting in the 4th century BC, on the other hand Europe didn't use natural gas until the late 19th century). Without all these Chinese inventions, the Industrial Revolution would have been impossible. These are just some of the ground- breaking Chinese inventions and ideas that backward Europe eagerly copied before the Industrial Revolution. Even science was born in the 11th century in the Islamic civilization with the birth of the EXPERIMENTAL SCIENTIFIC METHOD ( all ancient civilizations were pre-scientific) The backwards Europe again copied the experimental scientific method extensively thus bringing about the Scientific Revolution in Europe. The primitive Europeans copied not only science but also math, architecture, literature, etc from the Islamic civilization in the Middle Ages. As you can see Europe was basically a copying and adaptive culture before the Industrial Revolution. Even though Europe overtook China in science in the 17th century. China was still ahead of Europe in technology until the end of the 18th century because there was disconnect between nascent scientific theories and implementing them for technological developments. Before the Industrial Revolution, almost all the technological improvements were done by craftsmen or technicians not by scientists. Even Ancient China was far ahead of the Greco-Roman civilization in technology. According to Robert Temple, a well-respected scholar of the Oriental Studies, more than half of the inventions that laid foundations for the modern world before the Industrial Revolution came from China.

If China had not declined in the 19th century and had more powerful second industrial revolution ( China's first industrial revolution occurred in the 11th century under Sung dynasty), we might be speaking Mandarin now, instead of English also study Confucius, Laozi, Mozi, Mencius, instead of such overrated ancient Greeks as Socrates, Aristotle, Plato. What we are seeing now is the 200-- year Western domination is coming to an end and the world is going back to the original Asian predominance. The last 200 years of the Western domination was an aberration from the long-running Asian super- achievements.

>>839722
I don't know a thing about Egypt, but it seems to have a rich history that I would like to experience personally.

I'm more interested in China's Warring States era to the founding of the Han. It would be nice to see the transition from utter chaos to the making of the world's largest homogenous civilization.

>>839722
>the First Emperor's reign
that guy was just another generic tyrant

he isn't unique, there's plenty of people like him throughout the history, even today, you could say that the present day incarnations of him are the north korean leaders

WW1 just to watch the whole mess unfold

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>>838799
I'd go with Pyrrhus of Epirus
Smart, cynical, with some mean jokes.

Hannibal

Clever
Reckless
Doomed

Lasalle
A drunk, wicked, angry cunt who died too early

Proof and God never go together. Its a metaphysical concept of the highest magnitude that often is beyond even human comprehension. The idea of God is so extraordinary it can not even be fully understood or explained.

Atheism though has existed long before Christianity was even an idea. Hardly a "christian construction" as the idea of God and the lack of belief in God exist outside even a Christian framework.

>>838785
What makes you think God's existence is vulnerable to mankind's logic and reason?

>>838854
God is another name for Yahweh the sky "thing" that messed with jews centuries ago.