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Tribes raiding tribes
A bunch of these tribes were Joos
The rest were pagans who put idols in the Kaaba

>>86906
Muhammad was just a massive troll and claims he destroyed the false idols, but he really just wanted everyone to pray to them 5 times a day and do a hajj to worship the idols.

The Himyarites/Yemenites WERE the Spice traders of the Western (by this I mean cis-Indus) world.
They import frankincense (?) and other spices from the East, and sold it to the Levantines/Hellenes.

The Arabs are basically the Semites that didn't get out of the deserts, they populated Bronze Age Mesopotamia (Akkadians) and Levant (Canaanites, Aramaeans), then in the Iron Age... You know the story.

I got so fed up with Empire that I never bought Napoleon, it is the only entry in the series that I never played

>>86794
Most recently I've been playing

>Total War Shogun 2
>War Game European Escalation
>Mount & Blade Warband

I would love to see a continual, low-threshold warfare game as in archaic Rome.

There are threads suited to this discussion on /vg/.

It is my opinion that video games threads just lower the level of discourse for the board as a whole.

>Holy
>Roman
>Empire

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Are great helms the greatest of helms? Yes.

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>>86574
Who was the best Order of Knights
I think it was the Knights Hospitaller

Ada Lovelace

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Double whammy: a woman who left her mark on history by colonizing people of coloUr

>>86386
Victoria was just a figurehead. She really didn't do much herself as queen.

>>86322
The amount of trash was minimal compared to modern society. Most of the stuff was recycled, there were no plastic wrappings on products etc.

Chuck it in the streets for most part.

Or in the ditches of the city wall, or try and throw it in a heap if you could be arsed (archaeologists love middens)

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>>86376
>Chuck it in the streets for most part.
Basically. It's how Europe had the black plague. Anywhere that does not have running water, you can count on garbage, and even human waste in the open in the streets. You can look at modern day India and non-industrialized countries to have a good idea what it's like.

>>86345
Manufacturing and the introduction of plastic has made trash issues so very much worse. Even now, there's a giant pile of Chinese garbage just floating around the Pacific.

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>>86094

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>>86115

>>86094
A dramatic oversimplification, at least as applies to the west. Today western historiographers are virtually obsessed with portraying perspectives of the 'opressed', the 'marginalized', the 'losers' in history often to the detriment of actual historical truth. And further back than that think about all the early historians of imperial Rome who were nostalgists for the Republic. I don't know enough about Eastern historiography to even begin to make a judgement about it. Personally my favorite Churchill /his/tory quote has to be:
"Only history can judge me, but I will be one of the historians."

>digging up your rival's corpse and fucking with it
Out of order.

Sulla seemed like a bit of a cunt desu

>>86742
>>86759


to the tiber with your bodies

>mfw Americans post about how they "won" WWI and "saved Europe"

Way to show up late to the party guys

>>86173
Not like they're alone. ANZAC, the Limeys and the French are all convinced they did more than the others to win the western Front.

>>86173
Not only show up late, but pull their troops out of combat moments before an offensive was to be underway.

>On July 2, two days before the counteroffensive was scheduled to begin, Monash arranged for the popular Australian prime minister, Billy Hughes, to address some troops from each brigade, taking care that Hughes' visit would not disrupt preparations for the coming "show." Then Monash's planning hit a serious snag. During a visit to the U.S. II Corps headquarters, the AEF commander, General John J. Pershing, learned of the plan to commit American troops to the assault on Hamel and advised General Read that they should not participate. The next day, he telephoned with "further and positive instructions...that our troops should be withdrawn." Pershing believed it was better if American troops fought together rather than as scattered units among the Allied armies. He also wanted assurance that they were fully trained before committing them in offensive actions.

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>>86018
opinion on the Valois dukes of burgundy? if its within your time frame

You started this thread earlier and it 404'd

This is like the one thing I'd love to learn about, give me books

How much raw dirty fucking did the French get into in the medieval era and did they leave behind paintings of it.

had this feel yesterday too

i get this feeling that to be indoctrinated from birth leaves you a lot healthier than 'finding god' in later life aka getting bipolar and having a breakdown

>>85391
I know that feel. Like, I just can't have that kind of pure faith. In anything, really. But religion especially. I end up being a contrarian faggot, arguing for God to atheists and arguing for atheists to uberchristians. It's pretty damn autistic.

I got yelled at and called a fedora for posting this same question on /pol/ a few months back. I think if I were to return to Christianity I would join the Orthodox Church.

It's overblown, but sometimes pretty true.

Like, if it wasn't for Genghis Khan, nobody today would know what the fuck a Mongol was.

It's empowering, the idea that one man can change history, it's also true.

>>85349
>Contradicts self completely

Also it's not overblown, history proffesors literally shit and piss all over the GMOH

Fucking cultural Marxist scum imo

>>85319
bump, i would like to see this.

>>85319
anyone? or should we continue with no flags and no ids.

>>85319
i think so, historical flags were fun on that disgusting nazi forum that i never ever frequent

Angry Serbs incoming.

>>85218

would you let the Ottomans have nukes?

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>Hellenic/ Macedonian

Why?

Brought a official language to most of Greece and the Middle East.

Alexander was a cool guy, too bad the common cold was cooler

Allowed many cultures to remain the same, but just added the best parts of Greek ideals in with them

Built great cities

>library of Alexandria

>taking sides in history

>>85209
Gotta go with York. I like white roses.

>>85238
Yes, what are you some kind of relitavist faggot?

>>85161
Pretty sure you can find plenty of ''heroes'' in history who were actually over-glorified just to inspire others.
It's the symbol that matters, this is what moves the people.

>>85161

More like glorified chicken tender.

No, she took an active part in leadership after Orleans.