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Which figures of history do you think aren't deserving of
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Which figures of history do you think aren't deserving of the praise they get?

Overrated people of history thread.
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>>70346
Pic related.
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>>70367
fuck off
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>>70521
"Thatcher.."

Her forebears must have just thatched roofs all day in the Middle Ages.
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>>70346

He wasn't that great
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>>70584
Better picture of the kek Allied leader.
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>>70643

He Looks so fragile. I bet he got ultrabullied in school
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*erwinrommel.png*
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>>70668
No, he was the one doing the bullying apparently.
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>>70783
But he was essential in the Cuban Revolution!
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>>70783
>Che
>overrated

He's literally become a t-shirt
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>>70346
Oh boy a bait thread! No one is even explaining why the random well known guy is "overrated".
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>>71109
Maybe our collective expertise would hint at why they're overrated as opposed to your knee-jerk contrarian attitude?
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>>71109
talk shit, post pic.
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>>70346
Lately, this guy and his troop.

It's not like he and his people were absolutely irrelevant, on the contrary. But it just seems like some scholars and pseudo-intellectuals are overreacting to the relative lack of/negative attention the mongols got in western historiography.
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>>71289
Welps, I was sure my genghis khan.png picture was the yuan portrait. I suppose the drawing is cool too.
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>>70346
Practically everyone from Romance of the 3 Kingdoms except Cao Cao.
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>>70643
would fug his boipussy
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Sitting Bull. He was a Medicine Man, Crazy Horse was the Braveheart for the Lakota.
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If you inherit a world-conquering army from your dad, the worst thing you could possibly do is use it.
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>>71359
Wilson too while we're at it
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