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>>3164144
Because Media is based around English history and the English spent the whole Middle Ages wishing it could be France, and then failing spectacularly.

>>3164174
That's actually a fair point. Obviously, England evolved around the french sphere of influence, thus the english point of view is centered on France, and it's the same for Americans.

Your observation is right for the High Middle Ages, but I would say the Late Middle Ages are associated more with Northen Italy, Renaissance being quite a localized cultural movement originally.
But yeah, I noticed it too when I tried to find some relative recent book with a narrative history of HRE in 900-1400.

>>3163503
it was augustus for not ending the empire before it started

marcus aurelius because I fucking hate philosophy, think he's an idiot and why would an emperor write stupid philosophy in his diary like a teenage girl anyway? doesn't sound like a man to me sounds like he had too much free time and was bad at his job. also I've read meditations 3 times and got absolutely nothing out of it each time.

How many times have you seen that movie fuckin Roman history expert....

Strength and Honor.... Maximus

>>3163413
No one knows.

Nothing of worth up there, easier to just build a wall than subdue a group of absolute savages

Britain was always a logistical nightmare for Rome, which is why it was one of the first bits of fat to be trimmed when shit started going bad. It probably just wasn't worth it.

Also, Hadrian was not an expansionist, he was more concerned with fortifying secure borders, and making Rome a stable, contiguous state. He was the one who ditched Dacia as well.

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How do we solve the manlet problem?

>>3163265
Furor manleticus can be a powerful tool, it's basically weaponized butthurt. I don't know a single manlet who isn't constantly mad about something.

>>3163265
mandatory sterilization for all males over 18 who are under 6'0"

>>3163128
>right lads here's the plan go on and walk up to them
>oops we lost instead of facing death like a hero I'll go run away like a slut and kill myself

>>3163133
Basically this. Her tactics played perfectly into Roman strengths by charging a mass of undisciplined, lightly armed and armored warriors into the tightly ranked, strictly disciplined, and heavily armored legionaries. Basically it's the exact kind of battle that every Roman general would fantasize about having because it's guaranteed victory. Suetonious could have won just as decisively if he had half as many men as he did.

>>3163128
Wedge formation.

It turned the Britons numbers against them, and squashed them against each other so they couldn't even move, while the Romans could pretty casually go about butchering their way through them.

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Artificial Intelligence.

>>3163022
Artificial wombs and sex dolls

>>3163022
Probably any sort of developments in agriculture

>>3162888
Macedonian pike formations.

>>3162888
Real cavalry does everything a chariot does better. You're faster and more maneuverable since you don't have to drag a cart around. You can have more people actually fighting, as you can eliminate the functions of driver and multiple horses to pull one chariot. You eliminate an unstable platform that you're riding along. You eliminate a vast variety of logistical needs pertaining to chariot parts.

As soon as you had horses and riding techniques capable of actually being used in battle, cavalry started to outcompete chariots.

>>3162890
Why didn't they make all cavalry obsolete though?

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>>3162638
The British were extremely cruel and Boers performed very well despite not really being a formal army

>>3162667
>Boers performed very well despite not really being a formal army

How were a bunch of farmers able to hold their own against one of the world's greatest military powers?

>>3162677
Same could be said of the American revolutionaries. Turns out the British were always thrown off guard when they didn't have a 1,000 year tech advantage against their enemies.

It makes me sad that Brits are embracing blacks as part of their histories, but still beat Romanians to death despite the historical reality of Thracian and Dacian mercenaries settling in Roman Brittania

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>>3162461
roman Britain has shit tons of blacks , then why did they all disappear during the dark ages!?

was it genocide? how much should they pay in reparations?

>>3162461
did the romans even know that sub-saharan africa, ethiopia and india exist?

>>3162293
Because extremism is fucking cancer that destroys society.

Define far right and far left
Define society

>>3162293
They wouldn't be far left or far right, respectively, if they were mainstream and widely accepted.

Arabs chimping out as usual.

>>3162206
His father Joseph Kennedy sold his children's souls to the Devil in exchange for wealth and power. It's why they've all died horribly.

I think the Kennedy curse was caused by Joe Sr. having his eldest daughter get a botched lobotomy that turned her permanently into a 2 yo all because she was a bit on the spectrum.

>>3162013
It obviously happened, otherwise they wouldn't need laws against it. Depending on time and place it ranges from "Weird, but to each his own" to "REEEEE I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU FOR FALLING IN LOVE!!!!". The average person would just be mean to you if you were a stranger.

>>3162038
absent mass-immigration, and/or very large minority populations, it would probably be totally irrelevant.

Also, OP, miscegenation is an idiotic word, at least in this context.

>>3162013
The very first Asian groups in 19th Century America (namely Flips and Chinks) pretty much married whites (mostly Irish) because they pretty much have no choice since they a superminority and were mostly male.

Irish women managed to marry these people since anti-Catholicism was so high at the time no one else among the WASPs would marry them.

Too *

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>>3159116
>this whole "restoring" the latin half of the Roman empire is going a little TOO well for my liking, Majorian.

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Any of you lads happen to know what kind of symbols are on this coin? My dad got it a few years ago mixed in with a bag of old Roman coins he bought online. I liked it and thought it was unusual so he let me have it. Lately I have gotten curious on the origin of the symbols. They don't seem to be Roman, and looked more Arabic or Hebrew. Also what purpose the writing has for a coin that small. Most ancient coins seem to either have images of leaders and the like on them, but this just has "scribbles" on both sides. Any one out there who can shed some light on this?

>>3158626
United Provinces of Netherlands*

>>3158626
>Catholic South
French south*

Catholic just played an important part for the Flemish.The whole thing started because the Dutch wanted to Dutchify the French there.

>>3158747
why didn't the Dutch just form a dual monarchy ruled by a King who is half Dutch and Half French? Wouldn't it be more efficient?

>>3155664
They always drank water but they were able to some drink water without diluting wine into it most of the time, once standards for clean water finally picked up close to what we have now.

>>3155664
Only in cities was water quality ever a concern, until we started really fucking up the countryside.

A beverage of more than about 3% alcohol makes a net loss of water, so anything sanitized with alcohol would probably be heavily diluted.

>>3155664
c.1999 bro