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>Could the Byzantine Empire have survived?
No.
>What would the state look like if it still existed today in some form?
Greece
>Would the Greeks still call themselves Romans?
Maybe if nationalism doesn't kick off

>>377745
>No.
Any reason for this? I don't see the Turks winning Manzikert and settling in Anatolia as inevitable, and the Komnenos restoration was almost successful in destroying the Sultanate of Rum. Almost.

>>377876
I think even if it survived past the Turkic invasions it would have fallen in a similar way to the Ottomans. Becoming the sick man of Europe, throughout much if not most of it's history, the Byzantine Empire was the sick man of Europe.

Paper tiger

The ambitions of a big nation but the population of a small one.

>>377717
only reason it had it's 5 minutes in the first place is that they grasped gunpowder warfare quickly

I'm talking about culturally, socially, economically and genetically, also long-term and short-term.

>>377604
>multiculturalism
is shit
you can learn from other cultures without losing your identity
but since this isn't /int/ i wonder how long will take until some euro shitposter replies "America has no culture KEK"

There's no cultural diversity in the US, does the term melting pot ring a bell? Even the blackest ghetto nigs speak English and are Christians, and new immigrants are pressured pretty hard into assimilating into Americans, the muh heritagers you see on the internet are just indulging in a roleplaying hobby.

Multiracial =/= multicultural, by the way.

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What makes you think they are?

Overcompensation.

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>>377504
they're culturally very strict, rigorous and disciplined in everything they do - specially the japs, hence bushido (prior to the bombings, now they're just lost people with no cultural identity at all - just like the chinks after the communist brainwash)

and that's why they nuked japan - if they didn't the us army would be viciously destroyed if they decided to do a land invasion; even with worse hardware, not very advanced tactics or competent generals they would be dugged in like a tick and probably have deployed an unbreakable steel defense.

so yeah, they very commited to following orders (specially the lowest ranks/common people) too bad the rulling elite usually doesn't deserve them.

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>>377485
millennium challenge 2002

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>>377498
YES that's it thanks anon, i was trying for ages to find it

Have a rare Miru as reward

>>377485
>The underdog winning through experience and tactics
That sure as hell doesn't describe Millennium challenge 2002.

If you wanna be a nigger tier warlord, Somalia is right there

We'll enjoy the peaceful 1st world

>>377410
But nobody gives a shit about them. I'm talking about people who will be renowned worldwide-liked or hated-but known for being one of today's great people.

>inb4 some faggot mentions Korea or ISIS

Not to sound all /pol/ but Hitler will be remembered forever having rose from nothing but a messenger boy during ww1

>>377292

“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”

― Mark Twain

Because our current king is an idiot and more German than Dutch.

>>377301
"Where men are forbidden to honor a king they honor millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead — even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served — deny it food and it will gobble poison."

~C.S. Lewis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2fizeoT22g

Song about Scottish soldiers, from the early 20th Century

>>377173
Does it have to be old songs, or are more modern songs about historical events OK?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtnWVvDX6k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuoSuo-7wL0

Bonnie ship the Diamond
Sea shanties are based

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>>377100
bookzz.org

books listed in this article:
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195393361/obo-9780195393361-0194.xml?rskey=85u7gC&result=5&q=persia#firstMatch

or pic related

Pierre Briant

>>377100
Which Persia? Sassanid? Cyrus the Greats Persia?

>actual answer Persian Fire

cause he's a dick

>>377059
you buy a game at steam and this game has no story, has no play mechanics, you just instantly win. would you play that game more than once?

>>377067
ur mum is a dick

>>377059
Because he doesn't like us.

The Germans were so terrified of them that they executed entire villages of civilians as reprisals on several occasions both in the 1870 war and in WW1 (and of course in WW2).

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>>376943

Dumping pics because why the fuck not

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>>376977

>>376903
Enter WWII on the side of germany and fuck up everything he tried, basically.

>>376914
Well then caused him to be put in power?

>>376903
Mussolini had been in power for a long time, he wasn't a new guy recently arrived into power like Hitler. He also was never elected.

Entering the war was a complete mistake, Italy wasn't prepared. This was suffered not only by the men at the front but by the whole country, he basically ruined Italy by following Hitler. Of course a significant part of the population became full of his regime.

>>376696
Or you know, the lunar cycle.

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I think you have posted pretty good bait.

Why would a woman even give a shit about her period?

It was probably made by a man trying to keep track of when he could fuck his woman without getting blood all over the place.

>>376547

About the only thing you'll get, and it'll be hard to find good sources, are third world conflicts, like in Sub-Saharan Africa, where domestic weapon manufacture is limited or nonexistant, and where the modern stuff's primacy is limited by its unavailability.

pre-gunpowder weapons were only "balanced" with gunpowder weapons in the early, primitive days of firearms. By WW1, the advantage had long since swung to the guns.

The 30 Years War was basically the prototype for all conventional wars prior to the emergence of aircraft. It, and the wars leading up to it, are a fascinating part of military, philosophical, religious, and legal history that are definitely worth looking into.

>>376561
Oh, Napoleonic is too early for OP, never mind.

It's a very particular thing to hate, I don't really get it. It isn't like he did anything special.

>>379085
>It isn't like he did anything
I agree. He was just trying to get land for those nice colonists. He never meant to hurt anyone.


But in all seriousness, was he actually involved in any atrocities, or is he just a place for sjws to direct their hatred of colonization?

Natives are justified in their hatred of him, just like Europeans are justified in their praise of him.