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ITT: it is the year 50,000 BC
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OP an ooga booga
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The newly founded Eurasian Empire is flourishing...
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>>587531
You know, why do representations of the past always show dishevelment when we know grooming and cleanliness are not unique hallmarks of civilization or empire?
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Did marius intimidate Bocchus into joining forces with Jugurtha just so he and his generals would get more glory upon their victory?
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>>587475
No
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>>587475
Ask again tomorrow
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If I told you I'd have to kill you.
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Why were there no wars for the Americas in Europe? You're telling me France or Germany couldn't have just rolled into Iberia and told them to give up South America or else? These people murdered each other over rivers and towns, but a continent wasn't worth the effort?
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Germany didn't exist until 1871 newfriend, Spain pretty much lost all the American colonies by that point.
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>>587474
French & Spanish siege of Gibraltar
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>>587474
We were constantly at war anyway in Europe, it doesn't change much if it's over a continent or not since it never stopped back then
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Which one of them fucked Rome hardest?
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>>587470
Marius saved Rome more than once, he could afford a few major fuckups
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>>587470
why didn't the Romans have noses?
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>>587470
Ovid
Why do so many people think Machiavelli is evil?
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I hate to use the L word.
But he literally wrote the lawful evil playbook.
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>>587446
Because he spoke well of things we associate with malice
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>>587450
He just wanted a unified Italy and knew it could only happen using military force
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Have battles ever come down to single combat and champion warfare? Is there any documented cases or is it all just legends and memes?
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>>587413
I know there has definitely been 1 on 1 dogfights, but flying in a plane isn't quite "muh honorable single combat"
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>>587413
Also examples of it would be cool if you guys know
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>>587425
Well that still counts, I was just thinking further back
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In this topic, we will discuss history books.
I'm in the middle of reading pic related, so I chronicle some interesting things I come across I would like to share with /his/.
Discussing the origins of the Schlieffen plan:
>To achieve decisive victory, Schlieffen fixed upon a strategy derived from Hannibal and the Battle of Cannae. The dead general who mesmerized Schlieffen had been dead a very long time. Two thousand years had passed since Hannibal’s classic double envelopment of the Romans at Cannae. Field gun and machine gun had replaced bow and arrow and slingshot, Schlieffen wrote, “but the principles of strategy remain unchanged. The enemy’s front is not the objective. The essential thing is to crush the enemy’s flanks … and complete the extermination by attack upon his rear.” Under Schlieffen, envelopment became the fetish and frontal attack the anathema of the German General Staff.
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>>587400
>we will discuss history books.
So don't post a picture of a book written by a journalist that is eisegetic.
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Hey, /his/ what's a good book on the Akkadian Empire?
What's a good book on the life or Zarathustra/Zoroaster?
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>>587504
thus spoke zarathustra
How exactly did this brilliant son of a bitch unify all of the german kingdoms under one flag?
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>>587305
It was his duty to unite the german people under one flag
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I'm polish and I love this man
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by revolutionizing german thought
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>Sufism will never replace wahhabism and batshit Sunnis as the majority sect in Islam
>Islam will never be glimmering desert cities and wise old sultans in the public imagination ever again
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Patience and ye shall receive.
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I've just had to listen to two of my mates going on about how Islam is shit and how it ruined the Middle East and nothing good came out of the region since the people became Muslims.
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SandNinjas and oil jews isnt that bad. The middle east is currently really tryhard with their government and may have 15 thousand gdp per capita 20 years from now. Right now its 5k, one fifth of united states gdppc.
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>lol bro, we actually won our war after 20 years of massacres and napalm baths
>fucking awesome man, now we only have to do one thing: annex south vietnam
>you're right. We should do something to show we are liberators!
>yeah, but what? Improving foreign trade relations, announcing quality of life improvements, what?
>hey man I just got this fucking amazing idea, lets take saigon and then commit genocide!
>oh wow you're a fucking genius! Why didn't I think of that? That's the best way to summarize the 20 years of blood we've spilled trying to liberate these people from the evil imperialists!
>yeah but how much genocide should we do?
>hmm, how about 165,000 people?
>but wait there aren't even that many people in saigon at the moment.
>it's cool bro, we'll genocide them slowly so that we can wait until they have kids, then genocide them for double points
>alright good shit man! I'll get to work on this right away!
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> don't forget the re-education camps!
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American detected.
>implying saigon wasnt full
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American detected.
>implying saigon wasnt full of capitalist scum
Did Europe ever sent fully conventional armies overseas to fight before the industrial revolution occurred? I'm talking heavy cavalry, artillery and crack infantry troops.
Correct me if I am wrong but I almost always see the conquering force is composed largely of sailors and navy personal or light infantry and light cavalry like the conquistadors.
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>>587251
Are we counting the English chanel as overseas? The War of Spanish Sucession and 7 years war had troops everywhere.
Most pre-Industrial European powers were more concerned about their next door neighbor than someone across the sea.
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>>587251
Your typification of pre-1830s militaries is junk.
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>>587251
Portugal has frequently attempted to gain possession of the coastal forts in Morocco.
At least 6000 Portugese (At least half of which were knights) attempted to seize Tangiers from the Moroccans in the 1417.
In 1471 the Portuguese deployed 30,000 men and at least some heavy artillery.
The last major conflict, Ksar El Kebir, saw the Portugese amass an army of some 18,000 and 40 cannons.
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>In 1290, King Edward I issued an edict expelling all Jews from England. The expulsion edict remained in force for the rest of the Middle Ages.
Was this justified expulsion or another example of antisemitic persecution
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Definitely self-defense.
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>>587206
Hello, /pol/.
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>>587206
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>>587215
before jumping to conclusions, is there anything to explain why he expelled? And was this policy forced on others as well?
I don't understand people who claim Jews are always to blame for being exiled or punished. Christians chased away and repressed pagans non the less, and yet stormfags go on and on about European traditions in regards to paganism.
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What made the latin people so successful compared to their germanic counterparts ?
The UK was indeed successful, but it was also heavily influenced by the french.
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The germans didn't have as much colonies as the brits and the spanish. The colonizing of the new world was a priority of those two and the french rather than the germans.
Which, of course, if someone can explain what led to this? Why germans didn't conquer so much teritories as the others?
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>>587298
Germans had nowhere to go but east. Baltic is cold as balls. Half of Europe is modernized becuase of Germanization eastwards by Austrians, Prusians, etc.
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>>587205
Spain and France were the biggest colonisers of the Latin countries and both were into that game quite early and they were relatively centralized.
Germany didn't exist, Austria had to deal with the Ottomans. Poles, Swedes and such had to deal with Russia and each other.
The only 'germanic' people with access to the Atlantic were the Dutch and English really and they absolutely flourished.
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Mali used to be richest country in the world when Mansa Musa ruled it, what went wrong /his/?
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>>587183
Guns and Moroccans
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>>587183
He got involved in a land war in Asia.
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>the richest country in the world
When will this meme end? Mali wasn't "the richest country", the king of Mali was the richest person at the time, because the rest of Mali were busy mining gold for him. They had no real economy except, well, gold mines.
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Is this true?
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>via 9gag
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>>587161
No
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We dupe ourself into thinking we have free will by way of our conscience.
Ultimately our brain is in total control.