Any historical nations or people you fanboy over really hard and you're not entirely sure why?
For me it is the Seleucid empire.
>>983680
lmao
>>983680
For me it's the kingdom of Asturias
>>983680
Anglo-Saxon England.
Rome
Peloponnesian wartime Greece.
Kingdom of Bohemia
>>983680
Me too. There's still so little we know about it. Unknown wars in Afghanistan and near the Aral which will never come to light, fought by men in hoplite armour.
>>983680
>Any historical nations or people you fanboy over really hard
Ye..
>and you're not entirely sure why?
..Oh wait no.
Israel/Arabia etc.
I dunno why. Been that way since I was a little kid. A shame they're all heathen savages nowadays and I should know, I'm German and have to deal with those guys every day.
Everyone itt is lying for not saying eastern Roman empire.
>>983787
What is this picture from?
>>984027
Believe it or not, there are people who aren't byzaboos. Veniceboos, HREboos, and cathoboos are most common.
>>984027
Otherwise known as Byzantium and not Rome.
Imperial (late 19th to end of WWII) Japan
I don't even like Japanese culture all that much
Khazars
If anything because it'd be kinda cool to see a successful Judaic civilization influencing Eastern Europe
Why do Russians have to ruin everything all of the time
>>983680
Chinese dynasties, espesally ROC. Watch documentaries about the warlord era and the civil war.
>tfw that part where PRC is proclaimed always break my heart
>>984044
I can understand why there would be Venice/cathoboos, but what self respecting person would be an HREboo?
>>984075
How was industrialization in China pre-PRC?
>>984080
Why would you need to be self respecting to -boo something?
>>984027
eww no byzzieboos are disgusting
>>984089
I'll rephrase. Why would you -boo something so shitty?
>>984095
Nationalism? Masochism? I dunno.
>Any historical nations or people you fanboy over really hard
France and Persia
>and you're not entirely sure why?
If I wasn't sure, I wouldn't fanboy over them
Assyria
Byzantium
Prussia
Though I do know why I like Prussia. Doesn't mean I'm not a fanboy.
>>984118
t. Prussia pro
>>984087
Slow going but it would have developed perhaps the same way India's had. A third world country filling the market's need for cheap labor. The Republic of China was without a doubt interested in becoming more industrialized.
>>983680
Probably the Ptolemaic Empire actually OP.
>>983680
The Ancient finnish empire. There is so much we dont know because of the evil Indo-european savages
>>983680
I like the Hittites for what ever reason. I wouldn't say I would fanboy over them though. I do that with Rome and I know why.
>Prussia
>Gustavus Adolphus´ Sweden.
>>983680
Rhodesia
>>983680
Austria Hungary.
I always loved the Irish and the history of them being renowned warriors and labourers worldwide; if you had Irish fighting for you or you had Irish workers breaking sweat for you, your shit was sorted.
I really wish they'd do something cool like kick out Britain and be competent but unfortunately that doesn't look lik eit'll ever happen.
Brian Boru didn't deserve to die.
Russia
Poland and Czech because I secretly wish they would show that you can be ex-commie and succesfull
Etruria
Athene
Finland strictly because of /int/
>>984044
>HREboos
How can you be obsessed over something that doesn't even exist?
>>984483
Oh I'm forgetting Rhodesia and I'm not even /pol/
>>983680
England before the Norman conquests
The Vandal kingdom of North Africa
The Boer republics
>>984533
>The Vandal kingdom of North Africa
weirdest post-spqr kingdom ever
I don't really care for pre-modern history aside from Rome and China, so I've always been interested in France and am probably a Francoboo, especially when it comes to France from 1792 to 1815 which to me is the most interesting period in human history.
Imperial Russia, Prussia, Holy Roman Empire and more. But Byzantine will always take the cake.
>>984587
I know, I find it interesting to imagine Germanic warriors ruling a desert kingdom.
Also, my inner /pol/fag wonders if maybe, just maybe, they could have held off the Arab conquest of north Africa better than the byzantines, and we could have had a comfy, christian, less shitty North Africa today.
1. Ethiopia
2. Kongo
3. Medieval history of my own nation
4. Central Asia
5. China
Italy. All of it. This include Rome of course. I'm not even italian.
>>983680
Caliphate of Cordoba
>>983680
>>983680
Cimbri and suebi
Aswel as the Sassanid empire
Venice, but I am sure why I like it so much
>>984624
>germanic barbarians building longships and going full viking on saracens in the mediterranean
I never knew how much I wanted this.
>>983680
Ethiopia
Croatian here, i have the weirdest boner for Ottoman history and aesthetics, not even sure why.
>>984427
brian boru was already very old we he was killed. got to die honorably too
>>984941
Damn shame his based son died too.
I'd even have rathered him die in the battle than have some salty faggot ass Viking kill him while he was praying in his tent
Incans. So based
I'm a major Scotaboo
It's okay because I'm Irish, or at least that's what I tell myself
>>985808
Shouldn't that make it worse?
Forever and ever.
>>983680
Burgundy.
I always reenact the situation since the beginning of Charles the Bold's reign and figure out ways to win the war against the Swiss and German city states or at least preserve Burgundy's sovereignty.
Such a tragic end to a nation that could've changed the power balance of the world forever.
Indo-Greek Kingdom
Sassanid Persia
Order of Malta
>>983983
Same only trade being German for being Swedish(no memes thanks)
>>983680
Roma, Kingdom of Asturias, Roma 2.0, Spanish Empire and warrior spirit of Azteca people's, China and The Rus.
Prussia. Didn't know why I loved their history so much until about a year ago when some genealogical work showed that my great great grandfather was born Prussian
I like Korea. Maybe it's just because they're a east-asian accomplished underdog.
Entire French history, and i'm not even a frog.
>>986000
Also muh holy crusader states.
>>984839
Venice had sexy borders is why
>>983680
Rome
Byzantium
Tang China
Achaemenid Persia
>>984031
CoD Ghosts trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQEbPn36m1c
Rhodesia (/k/ommando, not /pol/ack)
celts
Mesoamerica
Gauls, feels bad man.
>>984924
Stockholm syndrome?
>>984073
Most of them converted to ISlam before their demise AFAIK
1. Aztec Empire
2. Achaemenid Empire
3. Scythian tribes
4. Babylonian/ Neo-Babylonian empire
5. Polynesia
>>986086
Ugh was the horned helmet Guy St 0:51 supposed to be a viking?
>>983680
Marathas and Hindu empires in general
>>986092
You guys are just /pol/ with guns
>>985977
>burgundy
wouldn't have survived the reformation, napoleon or age of nationalism
>>983680
Kingdom of Northumbria
Sassanian empire
the picts
>>986782
Why the lizard?
The Great Plague.
>>986852
They're having it climb the wall with the rope.
Also Assyria, Bactria and Mughals.
Charles XII's Sweden for that boy-king aesthetic.
1840s and 50s America, mostly because of Walt Whitman.
I have a shameful past of boo-ing things.
>Romaboo
>Habsburgboo (Most embarrassing desu)
>Post-Stalin Russiaboo
>Ottamanboo
>>986964
>ottomanboo
Bronze Age Greece, Roman Italy (imperial) and Medieval France.
Also the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment but that's for painting, sculpture, music and architecture.
Himiko, Yamataikoku, and early Japanese history in general.
20th century Colonial Africa.
>>983680
Glad to see I'm not the only one
>>984129
What mod is this?
>>986439
They did convert en masse to secure Muslim military support. I also think Judaism always was a relative minority, popular among the nobility but with the common folk being muslim/tengriist/whatever
Still would be interesting to see what way they'd go if they survived and Judaism became rooted deeply enough
The Assyrian empire for me
>>983680
>>983817
Well said
>>987532
Its amazing how the Seleucids were a great power like they were and yet there is such little information about them.
There is a 19th century book called The House of Seleucus but the guy who wrote it doesnt take them all that seriously...
Has anyone read Kosmin's The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire?
There's also this whole conflict involving the diadochi- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_War
Its amazing how these diadochi wars were probably the largest conflicts of the ancient world- the battle of Issus was fought between 160,000 men and 400 war elephants. Yet there is not much evidence for all these conflicts- the Babylonian War is recorded only on a broken cuneiform tablet:
http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-diadochi/diadochi_01.html
>>987578
Yes, truely amazing. Didn't read that book yet. I did read Grainger's three part series of the Seleucid Empire, I can recommend those.
>>987591
I will be sure to check them out.
This guy discusses literature on the Seleucids
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/tm5wl/
Apparently not much good stuff was done before 1980, also apparently the book From Samarkhand to Sardis by Susan-Sherwin White is based
try to learn as much as possible about medieval Scandinavia, am also a Norse/Germanic pagan
Just fuck my shit up /his/
>>986791
The reformation, Napoleon, and age of nationalism would be extremely different if Burgundy still survived
>>987553
Ancient Empires
>>987643
Isn't that not even released yet? its for attila right?
>>983680
Big Antiochus Epiphanes IV fan are ya?
>>987663
Yea, for Attila. It's not out yet. We have Ptolemaic Egypt done though. Galatian Mercs
>>987671
It looks dope. I know yall probably pride yourselves on accuracy and hav researched this shit, but would Galatian mercs have fought in the nude in the desert like that? Wouldnt they have been sunburnt as shit?
>>984075
THIS. I'm a Latino but the ROC will always be in my heart. I went to the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial in Taipei and saluted and bowed before the Generalissimo's statue and literally couldn't stop myself from crying.
>>984508
its only natural to root for the underdog
Picture related.
>>984789
me too
Best Diodochos
I have always had an unnatural attachment to Brittany France and Crete.
Where my >minoans here?
>>987687
We'll they have cloaks, but thats how theyre always depicted in statues and descriptions. I guess they would undress as battle began or something.
I really like Anatolia in general but I never actually researched anything about it
something about its shape is just pleasing
>>987770
Here's your >>>
>>985977
>The eternal conflict between Germany and France was ordained by the very birth of Europe itself
>A country literally encompassing the lands between which have been fought over for a thousand years surviving in any such Europe
Would be could tho
>The Burgundian Kingdom of the Lowlands and the Free People of the Alpine Highlands
>>983680
The Malians. I hate black people, but it's interesting to see how such a low tech country managed to keep all of it's landmass.
>>987964
>I hate black people
>>987964
It probably helps when your subjects REALLY aren't as privy to concepts of nations and empires and don't give two fucks besides getting the harvest.
Probably the biggest reason most nations and empires can "hold" a territory.
>>987578
I've read Kosmin's book and it's quite good. I've also read Grainger's trilogy about the Seleukid empire. Currently I'm reading his book about Seleukos and G.G. Aperghis book about the Seleukid Royal economy. I also recommend Bar-Kochva's The Seleucid Army book. I also have Grainger's War of the Maccabees but have yet to read it. In the future I hope to purchase Grainger's more expensive books focusing on the Syrian and Roman wars.
Not OP.
>>986785
>he doesnt want to operate in short shorts
>he doesnt want dope names like operation dingo
>he doesnt want to remove inferiors with FAL
>>987663
EBII is pretty based if you like being able to build walls in any settlement.
>Mughal Empire
>Rashidun Caliphate
>Sassanians
Easter Roma is my empirefu
>>988097
>image.jpg
I want mobile posters to leave.
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>>988709
The period of Ulster Unionism from 1912-1921.
>Dat UVF
>Dat Larne gun-running
>Dat Curragh mutiny which completely cucked the Liberal government
>Dat 36th Ulster Division
>Dat Edward 'Taig Crusher' Carson
Everyone knows that Northern Ireland, is best Ireland.
Pre-Thermidor Revolutionary France
While not a nation or people, the pre-WW1 sellout SPD
>>989062
Edward Carson was actually pretty fond of Catholics and begged James Craig on his deathbed to treat Northern Irish Catholics equally
Also he hated the Ulster strain of Unionism and tried to resist partition
>>983680
Gallic Empire
>>989393
I wish.
Gunpowder Empires, Ancient India, Victorian England and colonies, Russia, Central Asia after the Mongols.
>>983680
>Any historical nations or people you fanboy over really hard and you're not entirely sure why?
The Portuguese Empire
The roman republic.
The greeks.
>>992104
t.
>>984095
Kill yourself
For me it's the Normans, they appeared and disappeared very quickly but left a huge mark on the world.
The Hautevilles were also based as fuck
>>984427
>being renowned warriors and labourers worldwide
Worldwide?
>>992272
Just do what we Brits do and let the Irish think they're amazing at everything. It keeps them content and means we won't have to go in and kill them all again.
>>986852
They trained monitor lizards to climb walls with a rope tied around it and then they'd use the rope to scale the walls... Or something like that
>>993239
If that's true, than that's pretty kick ass.
>>988928
>>985950
We need some goodold empire nowadays
>>992272
Well in my reading I've found Irish soldiers operating in Scotland, England, France, Spain, Germany, Flanders, Saxony, The Papal States, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Russia, Mexico, Chile, Venezuela and the US at various points in history. Most people seem to have high opinions of them.
>>987671
>egypt
>not black
delete this
The Ottoman Empire, and later on Attaturk.
I'm a white neopagan American, I don't know why I like the Turks so much. I just love everything they did, except the converting to Islam thing. I've written papers for college courses with nothing to do with history or other countries that bring up the Ottomans, specifically so I'd have an excuse to research them more.
Poland is also pretty cool.
>>986782
Imperial Cholas were boss, invading and subjugating much of Srivijaya for however short amount of time they did.
>>984027
Eastern
>Roman
Empire
>>995715
I want to eat that
>>995715
That looks delicious
I've always admired the Ancient Greeks -- for their dedication to knowledge.
The Mexicas and their language, Nahuatl with cool words like:
Tezozomoc
Ixtlilxochitl
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli
Huehueteotl
Tenochtitlan
Xoloitzcuintle
Xocolatl
Coyotl
Xipe Totec
Atzitzihuacan
I like the Qing dynasty, not sure why.
I also find religious history (what actually happened, not the religions propaganda) to be really interesting despite being agnostic.
>>995756
Holy shit.
Tenochtitlan was also awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nS6MpVbB_g
The Cretan and Sumerian civilizations.
I like really old, slightly obscure civilizations.
>>995788
>Sumer
>obscure
>>995792
To normies, thus the slightly
>>983680
I'm in love with what I like to call the Post-Bronze Age Collapse Big 4 (China, India, Persia and Rome) in all their incarnations during the 1st millenia BCE and CE.
I know why I like them, though not why that time specifically.
I'm also quite fond of the Turks, for some reason.
By the way, I'm Latin American, but weirdly, I really can't muster any interest for Mayans, Aztecs or Incas.
