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>>2856760
The Italian empre is shit when compared to the other empires.
They did nothing to improve their colonies
They did treat the natives good.
Most likely not.

>that caspian sea

>>2856760
>How did it compare to other empires
Was much smaller then Britain and Frances obviously, Italy was decently strong world power but was easily outclassed by the UK. It was often quick to leap onto potential imperial gains, I.e buying the promises of colonial territory from the allies in ww1. Mussolini only extended that attempt to build the empire, sometimes successfully like in Ethiopia and the other times utter failure like the North African and Greek ambitions.

>How were natives treated
Not fantastic, upon the annexation of Libya many natives Libyans were killed for no reason. Italy also used chemical weapons on Ethiopians and fought an extremely long conflict with Somalia so as to consolidate its rule. Sometimes they did treat them better, like outlawing slavery in their colonised lands which helped many.

>Did Italy ever improve their colonies
Yeah, some buildings and ports still stand from the colonial era, built in Italian styles. They greatly outfitted the Dodecanese Islands. Most infrastructure development was done for the benefit of the Italians and their ships but yeah they certainly did build things.

>Did it improve the Italian economy
Iirc Italy was actually sometimes drained by their colonies and managing them. Had they go to the oil in Libya then it would have helped greatly but it was to hard to access at the time. As far as I know not really.

>Would it have survived
Not likely, it would have lasted longer, probably into the late 60's like Spain's and Portugals. Albania may have gotten away sooner because the rest of Europe wouldn't have stood for the control of another European country.

Hope I helped on the Italian empire. It's pretty underrated and actually quite interesting at times.

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>>2881052
*fixes inflation*
Nothing personal kid

>>2881052
>>2881113
How was he able to sit still for so long?

>>2881052
well he's proof that a monarchic state can survive with a literal retard at the helm

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damn no crusaderboos here at all?

>>2880517

It depends on how you define a good crusader. He seems to be the archetype of the ambitious treacherous Norman, just like his father. He was brave and cunning, but otherwise not much of a crusader, in the idealistic sense.

>>2880924
i mean in terms of sheer military effectiveness and land conquering,
who would you consider candidate?

>>2880418
he was centrist which pissed of the democrats

but he is overrated in general

there is also a whole side story where he supposedly tried to print money outside of the federal bank which supposedly lead to his assassination , but I'm not sure I believe it

Not as good as Nixon, but luckily america votes for looks rather than words./10

bit of a meme

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>tfw VALISystem is real

I went down that road once when I was tripping on shrooms.

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>tfw you realise an omnipotent being has no desire for nor cares about the actions and worship of something as irrelevant as a human being

>>2880312
You can find most of this with a simple Google search lad. Even the Wikipedia page on The Ulster Cycle is fairly decent. Don't know if you can delete threads on /his/ but if so, please do. You've invited the inevitable shitstorm, and if i check back in 30 minutes to find it has indeed occurred, i will participate and exacerbate it becomes huns are subhuman filth and should be killed at the first opportunity

>>2880312
The Annals of the 4 Masters is always a good place to start or the Annals of Ulster

>>2880312
Quick rundown from an ulsterfag
>Autistic kingdoms
>Usually the strongest part of Ireland
>English come
>Autisticscreeching.jpg
>Ulster is the most rebellious part of Ireland
>Nine years war
>English decide to send over Scots and English Protestants (except for Monaghan which was settled with Irish Protestants)
>Most successful plantation by the English, others such as the plantation of Munster has no impact today
>Early 20th century
>Irish want home rule
>Protestant Scottish and English in Ulster don't want home rule as they believe it would lead to independence
>Ireland about to get home rule
>WW1.jpg
>It gets held off
>Easter rising
>1921
>Ireland gains independence
>6 of the 9 counties of Ulster stay with the UK
>Most of these counties still have an Irish catholic majority
>Catholics and treated worse than Protestants
>Troubles.jpg

>>2880183
No.

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There was the Iran-Iraq War, but the US was playing both sides on that one.

>>2880222
It always makes me laugh when I see a country support both sides of a conflict, like could you be any more transparent with your profiteering?

The Republic had far greater rank mobility than the Empire. It was crazy, i mean Napoleon literally jumped from captain to brigade general in a single promotion.

Napoleon somewhat normalized the promotion possibilities when he came to power. You could still become a NCO from a common soldier and an officer from NCO if you had proven yourself, but nothing drastic like during Republic. And of course you could still buy commission if you had the money, Napoleon never abolished that. Napoleon's famous quote about each of his soldiers carrying a marshal batton in their rucksack is a meme.

>>2880062
All true, but the Marshals were largely from lower to middle class backgrounds.

>>2880078
This is true, but all of them already distinguished themselves during Republic, they were all Napoleon's generation. Correct me if i'm wrong but I can't think of any Grand Army NCO or field officer that became a Marshal.

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How much did the Germanic religion change depending on their West/North/East divide?

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>>2880035

Germanics are still my favorite ethno-linguistic group. Goths, Norse, Anglo-Saxons, Vandals, Langobards, those weirdos who painted themselves black and attacked in the dead of night screeching like autists, etc.

>Meanwhile two envoys had sailed for the Morea with powers to invest Constantine as Emperor. Clearly they could not perform a coronation, nor was there any Patriarch at Mistra; the ceremony which was held there on 6 January 1449 was almost certainly a purely civil one, consisting of a public acclamation followed by a simple investiture. Such a procedure had at least one perfectly valid historical precedent: Manuel Comnenus had been similarly invested by his father John II in the wilds of Cilicia. But on that occasion, and even when - as with John Cantacuzenus in 1341 - a coronation had taken place outside the capital, it had been thought proper to have the Emperor crowned by the Patriarch of Constantinople in St Sophia as soon as this was practicable. With Constantine XI Dragases - he always preferred to use this Greek form of his Serbian mother's name - no such full ecclesiastical coronation ever occurred. How could it have? The Orthodox Church, since the Council of Florence, was in schism. The Patriarch Gregory III, a fervent unionist, was not recognized - and was indeed execrated as a traitor - by well over half his flock. Constantine himself, though he played down the issue as much as he could, had never condemned the union; if by upholding it he could increase even infinitesimally the chances of Western aid it was, he felt, his duty to do so. But the price was high. The anti-unionists, who continued vehemently to proclaim the folly of seeking salvation from Western heretics rather than from the Almighty, refused to pray for him in their churches. Without a coronation in St Sophia he had no moral claim on their loyalties, or on those of any of his subjects; yet any such coronation would have caused widespread riots and might even have triggered off a full-scale civil war.

>When Constantine Dragases first set foot as Emperor in his capital on 12 March 1449 - it is a sad reflection on the state of the Empire that he had been obliged to travel from Greece in a Venetian ship, there being no Byzantine vessels available - this whole impossible situation was immediately clear to him; yet Pope Nicholas V, who had succeeded Eugenius in 1447, was either unwilling or unable to accept it. Ever since ecclesiastical union had first been mooted, the Papacy had insistently refused to see the difficulties involved on the Byzantine side; and Nicholas was no less blind than his predecessors. When in April 1451, in yet another attempt to convince him, Constantine sent to Rome a long and detailed statement by the anti-unionist leaders, he only urged the Emperor to be firm with his opponents: if they spoke against the union or showed any disrespect for the Church of Rome of which they were now members they must be properly punished. Meanwhile, he continued, Patriarch Gregory - who had resigned in despair a short time before must be reinstated; and the decree of the Council of Florence must be properly proclaimed in St Sophia and celebrated with a Mass of Thanksgiving. In May 1452 he finally lost patience and dispatched Cardinal Isidore of Kiev as Apostolic Legate to settle the matter once and for all.

>The Emperor, meanwhile, had had other problems to consider, among the most pressing of which was that of the succession. He was now in his middle forties, and twice widowed. Both his marriages had been happy, but neither had proved fruitful. His first wife, Maddalena Tocco, had died in November 1429, after little more than a year of marriage; his second, Caterina Gattilusio - daughter of the Genoese lord of Lesbos -whom he had married in 1441, had survived for only a few months before dying at Palaiokastro on Lemnos, where she and Constantine together had been temporarily cut off by a Turkish fleet. Clearly he must now find a third. Various possibilities were explored. In the West there was a Portuguese princess, who happened also to be the niece of King Alfonso of Aragon and Naples; Isabella Orsini, daughter of the Prince of Taranto, was also considered. In the East, it seemed that either the ruling family of Trebizond or that of Georgia might be able to furnish a suitable bride. The Emperor's old friend George Sphrantzes was accordingly sent off to these last two courts to take diplomatic soundings.

>Hitler
>Kaltenbruenner
>Skorzeny
>Fritzl
Austria produces some fucking strange characters

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>>2879344
>Lusts after your Khaleesi

>>2879352
Are Austrians the alpha Germans?

>>2879264
No.

>>2879264

No.

>>2879264
Perhaps.

Trying used to be expected of all.

>>2879231
Because it was ""independent"".

Because real life isn't EU4

>>2879242
this is alredy 11th EU4 refrence i have seen today on 4chan, is today some sort paradox day in here?

Meant to say bulletproof shields, not world...

>>2879142
metal is better spent elsewhere

>>2879154
Superior firepower beats defence, basicly?

Without the stress & his drug addiction, probably until the late-60s.

>>2879006
It would be nice if they could actually capture him, let him grow old and senile, and then showcase him as a kind of tourist attraction.

No better way to combat neonazism with a cripple, old, pathetic cunt pissing all over himself

I kinda wish we lived in the alternate timeline where Hitler just became an artist.

Not because of ideology or anything, I just kinda want to see what he'd make.