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Probably German or French, still. But English is probably in first place by a larger margin than 40 or 50 years ago.

I disagree that Chinese is one of the best, it's actually pretty bad because its structure lends itself to a lot of misunderstandings.
Anyone who speaks a little mandarin thinks right away "hey, won't this structure cause people to be correcting themselves to others all the fucking time?".
And you know what? It does.

>>336753
>Anyone who speaks a little mandarin

> a little mandarin


Well not being fluent, there's your problem. Git gud gweilo

>>336592
Trinity didn't exist, nor did people believe Jesus was the son of God, for around 3 centuries after Christ. Eventually people decided they wanted to deify and worship him and built a whole doctrine around it because thats what humans are naturally inclined to do.

>>336592
Is there even proof that Jesus existed?

>>336604
yes

Theocratic hellscape

"Behead those who insult the Lama"

>>336296
Really? Read some fucked up stuff too, but I'm somewhat split about it. Sounded a bit like maoist propaganda. What do actual historians say about the matter?

They used to set people on fire if they made eye contact with the Lama

>>335880
I don't think Zebra's are as scary as you think

>

Why?

They had horses (where climate allowed), cows, chickens, goats, sheep, cats, and dogs already

>>335649
>Were Native American warriors actually that good?
Nope. It was just Americans discovering, like everyone else before them, that horse nomads are fucking annoying to fight.

>>335656
How do they stack up to other horse nomads though? Better or worse?

>>335649
>Were Native American
Northern chichimec barbarians were pretty shitty, while southern settled civilizations, especially the incans, were decent for iron age standards

>>335590
Of course
>listening to disgusting iranian
They exist only to corrupt Islam.

>>335650
>Satan made the Jew to corrupt the Nazarenes and the Persians to corrupt the Muslims

>>335661
>Jews
To fight against Islam
>Turks
To lead Islam
>Arabs
To found, interpret, and spread Islam
>Persians
To pretend to be muslims and corrupt it from the inside with their pagan attitudes

Disgusting people.

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>>335087
Yes. But the idea of "Saxon" was thrown onto many Germanic peoples. They were all Germanic, but there is a reason we call the Saxons that went into medieval England "Anglo-Saxon". The land was named after them they were so influential.
The Saxons that remained in Europe were a large conglomerate of tribes. They were influenced by their still Germanic neighbors. Once Charlemagne and his Latinboos started carving up Europe, they came under threat of invasion. Unlike their Anglo cousins on the Isle, they were vulnerable. The Franks crushed many Saxon tribes with horrible effectiveness. Many died, many more were forced to migrate elsewhere. Many Germanic peoples still were referred to as "Saxons" after this because of the Saxon's prominence.
They became different because of their neighbors and time. Were an Anglo-Saxon and a mainland Saxon to meet after a few centuries apart, they would not even recognize each other. Celtic and Roman influences touched the Anglo-Saxons. Germanic and Norse influences graced the mainland Saxons. Even after Charlefagne ravaged them and forced Christianity upon them, the mainlanders remained starkly Germanic compared to their cousins.

>>335128
quite interesting. So "Saxons" were a cultural group then, somewhat like how celts are described, just lest wide spread?

>>335128
>>335087
If I recall , Christianity came rather reluctanly with Saxons of England as well., and several factions of Saxons refused to convert until they were defeated

the world wars and mongol invasions

also china has a history of mass slaughter

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World War 2 Eastern European Front or World War 2 East Asian Front.

>racial hatred
>revenge
>mass rapes, executions, imprisonment, torture
>millions of peasants sent into meat grinder
>led to East German inhumanities

Probably some war a long time ago that the average person has never heard of. The past was generally more brutal than modern times, the scale of modern war notwithstanding.

>>334650

You don't like the penis tower?

>>334687
do you like it?

>>334703

Well, it makes me and my dad laugh.

>>333981
They got ships senpai

>>333981

Had just finished a war with Castela so we set sail to discover various places.

First Ceuta
Then Madeira and Açores
And so on till we discover Nagasakiand Goa

>>334005
Kawaii

Romaboo, Kaiserreichaboo, Bavariaboo, and Celtaboo

Imperial Russia boo
Byzantine boo

Weird as I'm not even orthodox

>>333968
>Bavariaboo
Why?

You got some torches?

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>>333380

Did you try asking it to move aside first?

>>333230
They just wanted Greece.

When you say they called themselves Romans, they weren't really calling themselves Romans, it was just the word for themselves, it had long since lost the direct meaning of Roman. When i say im English i don't mean im an Angle from north Germany.

>>333230
It would have been wildly out of place, and not something the Concert of Europe was even particularly interested in.

First battle of the Greek war of independence was in Romania, the war grew out of an effort to restore the whole Byzantine Empire, they wanted to grab Constantinople as late as WWI. But they failed, so "Greece" it was.

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>>332965

the colonists literally came to the colonies because the church of england was oppressing their meme religions, usually deism and wacky off shoots of protestantism
>>332984
>only had one reference to religion
Except that part where it mentions "their Creator"

>>333014
Wait nevermind, that was the declaration of independence.

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bump

I can't give you any exact data but on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being Rome under Augustus and 10 being a Mad Max wasteland, lets go for a 6.5/10.

The WRE had fallen but Italy was still Romanesque by the sixth century. The Gothic War fucked it up and divided the peninsula between Byzantines, who were too distant to govern well, and Lombards, who were barbarians. Arabs showed up a century later and raided the place.