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Could you try to start a treasure quest with your present history knowledge and related skills?
>>1172385
I wish I could
>>1172385
My knowledge and related skills allow me to know that thats illegal in my country and that I could destroy "the treasure".
>>1172385
Someone just finished Uncharted 4. Good Game.
>Nate dies
Why do people wank over the byzantine empire so much ?
They were dishonourable cunts basically I mean 1204 and so forth were the consequences of them not paying debts which they did to many other groups like the catalan company for example.
The only thing I think is good is that their last emperor died fighting the ottomans but I have only seen one source for it so it could be bullshit.
>>1172347
Because it's easy and comforting to focus on the bits you like and ignore the inconvenient parts of any topic.
>>1172347
Like, I understand if you wanna use that argument to troll Byzaboos, but ironically expecting an empire to pay gigantic sums of money and give their entire fleet away for several months because some pretender promised to do so?
Really?
>Greeks not paying debts
Some things just never change.
What can you tell me about the golden age of Islam?
>>1172273
Persians and North Africans were responsible.
>>1172273
Islam at its most least religious (even *gasp* occasionally atheist) point.
>Islamic
>Golden
>Age
What the fuck was his problem?
>>1172160
crippling inferiority complex
Autism
>>1172160
Hur dur krauts her dur huns hur dur jerrys
>USSR population: 188 milion
>Germany population: 69 milion
Why is this "muh great victory" meme propaganda still going?
>>1172087
add german allies and consider the fact their army was better quality and it's pretty great desu
>>1172087
>188 million out of which 80 million are in gulags and another 80 millions are as useful as sheep
>everything past the european continent is a literal snowy desert
>>1172100
By that logic we should also add the US and the British empire, which doesn't help your argument.
Who was the last individual to receive a title like for example "The Great" in history?
Bình The Great
>>1171896
Pope John Paul II.
My dick.
>The great
It's commonly accepted that the First Nations failed to achieve the same greatness of Europe and Asia because they couldn't domesticate anything larger than a llama, which does not pull carts very well.
With only hindsight for help, could it actually have been done with Stone Age technology?
>pic no necessarily related
> not
Gotta love morning grogginess.
Weren't like 80%of all big animals exctint shortly after human entrance to the continent?
>>1171939
Yea, likely from the impacts of climate change and over hunting. Horses and camels could have been an option.
What happend to them, really ?
If we go back in time Greece was one of the most civilized and developed countries from that era.
They gave us a lot of smart people to this world, also a good contribution to science. They gave us democracy.
And now, well...
Are greeks really greeks ? Or thanks to Ottoman Empire they are only half of what they're was once (interbreeding beetwen a greek and Turkish). Did the Ottoman Empire enrichment them with some "new" DNA ?
Turks happened
If they were, but now they aren't, were they ever?
Christianizm makes everything corrupt.
The spear thread inspired me to create a thread about how effective various weapons/shields/armour would be against other types of weapons/shields/armour.
Now we all know that on battlefield two swords would be much inferior to sword and shield because of missilies, but on unarmored one-on-one fight how well would two swords do against:
longsword
sword and dagger
sword and buckler
sword and shield (targe)
It depends on who is wielding the weapons more than the weapons themselves.
>>1171831
Trebuchets had superior anti armor capabilities desu.
>>1171848
Le pedant.
Assuming two equaly skilled combatants,
>longsword
Is the enemy using both hands to yield the longsword? Then two swords win easily. He's vulnerable after each missed/blocked attack. You can either parry with one and counterattack with the other or set up an attack with your right by diverting your enemy's attention with the left, like in boxing.
>sword and dagger
Same as above.
sword and buckler
Same as above....
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Caesar was about to set out of Rome to conquest Darcia and Parthia in a 3 years military campaign, unfortunately he got assassinated before he could do that.
Could he make it had he not been killed by senator gangs ?
>>1171799
there is nothing caesar couldn't do, even not getting stabbed. he let himself get stabbed because he was such an unyieldingly democratic mind and it seemed his death was the majority vote.
Caesar was a god on earth and parthia would have been fucked hard and good
>commander was caesar, at the time of the republics height.
Yeah pretty safe bet to say they were fucked
>>1171799
That's a really beautiful painting.
http://www.pixule.com/autre/296226335852_which-country-has-the-most-participated-in-the-defeat-of-the-triple-alliance.html
Hi It's a survey for know your opinion on the question :)
>>1171708
Why isn't New Zealand an option?
>greece
wew
What went wrong /his/?
Was it the Venetians?
barbars barbaring
Trying to recapture Rome instead of paying attention to the east.
Is Politics as a humanities field pointless? It seems that everyone supports only what's in their economic interests. The rest is just Public Relations
>>1171537
>Is physics as a field of science pointless? It seems that everything is just matter and energy. The rest is just semantics
>>1171537
You describe a problem that affects all academics, not just Politics. Chances are that it always was like that though.
>>1171537
>*record scratch
>*freeze frame*
>let me tell you about Gauls
Did it ever happen that a noble would take a Pretty peasant female and pay for her education and expenses and actually make her smart just to be with her?
Why would he have her educated in things other than courtly manners and being a good wife?
What happened more often were rich plebs marrying poor nobles. One did it for the title, the other for the money.
>>1171482
>noble
No, aristrocrats know each other. You can't just take some pleb bitch because nobody in the rich club would know her and they will instantly know she's not one of them.
Can anyone share some images of the food lines in the UdSSR during the 80's or earlier? I'm finding nothing reliable myself
who the fuck was gonna take the pictures genius?
>>1171473
Why? Did cameras not exist there back then?
>>1171484
Was the government going to send reporters to cover the bread lines?
