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alexanders farthest east battles, like india and afghanistan and that area. would be interesting

>>3044083

The cod wars.

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French or British colonial troop in China.

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>>3044057

>>3044057
The men who fought for the imperor by in large did not want to abolish the samurai, they may have wanted to modernize but in the same way European nations still had an a nobility the samurai did not want to abolish that. Even reformers like Ryoma envisioned an upper parliament and a lower one similar to the British system.

In fact most imperialist didn't even want to modernize, they wanted to kick the foreigners out of Japan, not learn from them. Their leaders realized this was a really stupid idea towards the middle of the conflict and basically went around the rank and file.

>>3044057
there's two big facts you ignore:

1. The samurai were a step inbetween european noble class and peasants and was class was big enough to number in the million give or take a couple hundred thousand. Unlike European nobles, the samurai class wasn't supposed to lead the army with an elite unit. They WERE the army, and knew no other crafts.

2. Despite being the army and doing way more than your average noble, the peasants still saw the samurai as basically oppressors and would discriminate them if given the cahcne

By abolishing the Samurai, you condemn nearly a million people to unemployement and discrimination, with little chance of getting another job because they only knew how to make war. This was quite simply a formula for rebellion as it's considerably unjust, steep change on a very integrated system.

To make matters worse, some of laws bordered on humilliation - you didn't need them to cut their hair, let them keep it as a fashion statement

Invading Korea was to many Samurai a good way to end their social class. They would have gladly gone underarmed as cannon fodder if it meant they got to die as their ideals dictated.

The Satsuma rebellion was not intentional but a product of typical japanese fanaticism / personality cults.

The whole concept behind the Ronin - unemployed "masterless" samurai that often turned to crime and thievery was an early symptom inherent to this Japanese social issue.

>>3044007
well mansa musa was so rich that when he went on hajj he destroyed the middle eastern economy by giving out that much gold that it became worthless as a commodity

>>3044164
>"Whenever a hero adds to the list of his exploits from conquest, Mansa Musa gives them a pair of wide trousers...The greater the number of a Dogari's exploits, the bigger the size of his trousers."

seems like a pretty based guy 2bh

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>>3044007
""""Being influential"""" is a hollow meme and not important. Japanese culture is vibrant and beautiful and influential, but only because economic success created media that the world latched onto. Ethiopia has a rich culture but no one cares about it because Ethiopia is a poor country and the masses assume its only ever been a bunch of staving kids in grass huts.

>>3043837
It won't work if you're not a mythic lobster hero

>>3043837
Clean your father's room

>>3043837

You need to find them in Dragonlance books.

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>>3043731
Yes the Eucharist is the source and summit of my life.

>>3043648
Imagine this being a real conversation

Yeah they delete threads from time to time but it doesn't help much, the userbase itself is cancerous and there's no fixing that.

Yes.

They only delete/ban threads that blatantly break the rules in a most egregious way, they give a lot of leeway otherwise, I kind of like it this way, /his/ I unironically has decent hotpocketeers.

>>3043178
No, I did not know that, thank you French Anon.

>>3043178
The Paris Police of the 17th century during Louis XIV's reign was also the first modern police force.

>>3043196
Yes but the Tiger's brigades were the first "mobile" police force, meaning they didn't have to stick to one sector and had full jurisdiction on any criminal case, no matter where.

Pretty much like an US marshal if i'm not wrong

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>>3042896

Well, keep in mind that many of the Buddhist, Jainist and Hindu sects/groups throughout Indias history have advocated austere diets if not outright occasional fasting. Members of the Buddhist Sangha during the time of Buddha's life were instructed to not eat after the mid-day meal.

Most Buddhist, Jainist and Hindu monks/ascetics would obtain their meals by going from home to home begging with their alms bowl and would eat very little a day. Most of them spent their time meditating, in yoga, conversing to their guru/teacher or slowly walking from place to place. These people would be pretty skinny and not have a lot of muscle but would be in okay shape from walking and meditating and not eating excessively.

Aside from the fact that exercise for the sake of simply increasing muscle size/strength goes completely against the tenets and attitude of Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism; any sort of strength training would dramatically speed up their metabolisms and would mean their bodies would need way more food, drastically worsening their hunger if they didn't get it. It would make no sense for someone who receives their food from begging to try to be developing their physique.

>>3042896
Yoga literally means "union" or "linking up" and refers to linking up one to God. It's first and foremost a method to withdraw the mind from the senses in order to directly perceive God. Yoga in the West, specifically Hatha Yoga, has somehow become known as primarily some sort of exercise for physical fitness, but this is not the case at all. Hatha Yoga does produce great health effects for the physical body, but these effects are merely secondary to the primary mental purification effects it has. If you really want to learn the process of Yoga read the Bhagavad Gita.