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>>437401
Early Middle Ages by the Franks

By conquest

>>437419
more details

did england try to stop itr?

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>>437563
Oh, my god.

Smh desu senpai

>>437257
Khan Sternberg. I win

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>>437257

Adrian von Fölkersam

>In early August 1942, a Brandenburger unit of 62 Baltic and Sudeten Germans led by von Fölkersam penetrated farther into enemy territory than any other German unit. They had been ordered to seize and secure the vital Maikop oilfields. Disguised as men of the dreaded Soviet security police, the NKVD, and driving Soviet trucks, Fölkersam's unit passed through the Soviet front lines and moved deep into hostile territory. The Brandenburgers ran into a large group of Red Army deserters fleeing from the front. Fölkersam saw an opportunity to use them to the unit's advantage. By persuading them to return to the Soviet cause, he was able to join with them and move almost at will through the Russian lines.

>Operating under the false identity of NKVD Major Truchin, based in Stalingrad, Fölkersam explained his role in recovering the deserters to the Soviet commander in charge of Maikop's defences. The commander not only believed Fölkersam, but the next day gave him a personal tour of the city's defenses. By August 8, the German spearheads were only 12 miles away and the Brandenburgers made their move. Using grenades to simulate an artillery attack, they knocked out the military communications centre for the city. Fölkersam then went to the Russian defenders and told them that a withdrawal was taking place. Having seen Fölkersam with their commander and lacking any communications to rebut or confirm his statement, the Soviets began to evacuate Maikop. The German spearhead entered the city without a fight on August 9, 1942.

Pc related: Best Friend Otto Skorzeny (center Left and Folkersam (center right) touring Budapest which they pacified together.

>>437339
Wait, so he captured a city with no one dying directly? Pretty fucking tall order.

>>436699
>>>/x/

>>436702

The kingdom of heaven is within you motherfucker

>>436709
Go back to reading The Lost Symbol, babby.

>>436579

What a bunch of inbreds.

WE WUZ PLANTAGENETZ ND CAPETIANZ N SHIIIEET

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>>436579
>the house of Capet ruling France
Max, go fetch the old guillotine. It looks like we have a royalist infestation in the government again.

>>436418
Batista ran the country in this shitty protection scheme sort of regime than did favors for nobody (save for corporate US backers)

Much worse in every conceivable way.

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Cuba used to receive migrants from all around the world, from Chinese and Europeans to even Americans expatriates. Now they flee their own countries in containers and not even Haitians want to live there.

>but muh HDI

Fake stats, also the whole HDI thing was made up by Amartya Sen to promote the communist governed state of Kerala so obviously another communist shithole would fare well.

Bumping for a book on pre- and post-Roman Spain.

>>435222
Why don't you just play Rome: Total War with realism mods?

>>435225
Because I want to read about what actually happened. There's a dearth of information on the subject because every Spanish historian can't resist writing about either the Reconquista, the Golden Age or the Civil War.

Besides, I already do that.

Papist clowns.

>>434942
Where are their knives? They're holding the wrong weapons.

>>434942

It's a rumour, they experience the same training as Swiss regulars and don't do anything impressive at any point during their service

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>>434739
It would be impossible for a closed hoplite rank to use their spear underhand. It just is not practical at all.

The argument derives from some people refusing to believe ancient sources on the way hoplites fought: pushing into each other. This is only because historical martial recreationists think it is stupid, and either nobody would die or everybody would die.

Illustrations of hoplite phalanx, including arguably the first, depict overhand use of the spear. Not only that, they even show how the spear was held. Some recreationists dispute this and insist it was held reverse (which is retarded as the video I will link to will demonstrate).

Pic related, Chiggi vase, one of the first red figure pottery examples.

Also, people who've experimented with the idea have discovered you do not hit the guy in back in the eye with overhand.

At this point the only dispute is how exactly they would have used the spear to thrust for the most power.

Issues also include the balance and weight of the spear. So for overarm technique being practical in Phalanx:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZVs97QKH-8

For spear balance demonstration that apparently no reconstructionists have seen or agree with? Never seen it mentioned or seen balance like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHOHbW9fCA

And for a possible technique they used for actually thrusting overhand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LaSKE57rZA&list=PLBp7ebiDRbagRbX0Hi6xJ2BwvXb3nhffy&index=9

>>434739

Lindybeige bait thread. Lindybait?

Traditional Greek hoplites used overhead spears.

Alexander (or his father) reformed the Macedonian army to use much longer sarissa spears to form the famous impenetrable phalanx wall.

>>434364
It's neither Holy nor Roman nor an Empire so you could definitely say that.

>The katechon (from Greek: τὸ kατέχον, "that which withholds", or ὁ kατέχων, "the one who withholds") is a biblical concept which has subsequently developed into a notion of political philosophy.
The following identifications of the katechon have been proposed:
The Name of God (or God's presence);
The Holy Spirit;
The Archangel Michael;
The Catholic Church (and the perpetual sacrifice of the Eucharist);
The Papacy;
The Holy Roman Empire;
The State as such;
The Law;
Some more or less important eschatological figure(s) preceding the Antichrist and the end of times (like the two witnesses of the Book of Revelation).
>Last Roman Emperor or Last World Emperor is a figure of medieval European legend, which developed as an aspect of eschatology in the Catholic Church. The legend predicts that in the end times, a last emperor would appear on earth to reestablish the Holy Roman Empire and assume his function as biblical katechon who stalls the coming of the Antichrist.
Flag of the European Union
>in 1987, following the adoption of the flag by the EEC, Arsène Heitz (1908–1989), one of the designers who had submitted proposals for the flag's design, suggested a religious inspiration for it. He claimed that the circle of stars was based on the iconographic tradition of showing the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Woman of the Apocalypse, wearing a "crown of twelve stars".

Apocalypse, here we come.

>>434388
Angela Merkel is the whore of Babylon.

>>434089
"the moors" aren't a monolithic entity and had their own wars between taifas

>>434089
Muslim Iberia divided into small kingdoms and the christian kingdoms teamed up in order to defeat them

>>434089
The same reason the Muslim held on to the land for so long: there was no unified realm so the biggest power with the most allies came to dominate the region.

As for the spread of religion, religion tended to follow the feudal lord in charge. And the feudal lord in charge tended to follow the religion that was winning.

>>433888
Mel Brooks considers Ulysses to be the funniest novel of 20th century.

Because the funniest things are the ones you didn't expect

Because you're a pleb

Everything was fine until the white man came.

Everything was fine until Post-modernism came.

In theory you can do anything with a history degree!

Knocking on my door like clockwork just after I've whipped out the dick

>>431684
The end is nigh.

I can see the signs.

They are autistic biblical literalists. They can't have blood transfusions and they believe that literally 144,000 people will get into heaven. Basically they take everything literally.

>>438303
literally ignorance

you just tell people what they want to hear rather than what is true

>>438303
Sieges were led by the forlorn hope/verloren hoop/whatever it was called in different nations. They accepted the increased risk in exchange for priviledges, like higher pay and quicker promotion. Furthermore, it was kind of necessary to fight those wars. If an enemy army started campaigning in your country, the peasants generally weren't having a really nice time. So you had to defend yourself and your compatriots.

>>438303
>>438307
>imposing an anti-war bias on history

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Catholicism

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Can't beat cathedrals, but there are some nice mosques here and there.

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>>438085
Hard to tell based on those that survived, because there are some magnificent ones that were destroyed. The Greeks had some great temples that were generally demolished or blown up; the Buddhas carved out of the mountains in Afghanistan and China were demolished by the Taliban and the Communists, respectively. The Chinese also inundated hundreds of ancient temples in the building of the three gorges dam. Chichen Itza and the mesoamerican temples we do see are probably only a portion of what was once built. None of the Jews' temples of jerusalem have survived; I'm sure Persepolis had some great temples before Alexander just burnt it down too.