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Neruz posted:drat Welshies, everyone knows Ghana deserve to be the next lords of the known world. It's time Africa got to be the awesome guys! Yup, would be a shame to pass on an opportunity to showcase some of the non-standard nations because of "Wacky Welshmen LP Vol. 8,521,423".
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A galley headed towards Byzantium was ransacked by pirates, its passengers and crew enslaved. Among them were several Welsh monks, on a mission to establish a connection with scholars of the East, and hopefully to reinforce knowledge of Greek texts in the fledgling Welsh monastic community. As slaves, these monks, assumed by their captors to be quite worthless because of their unintelligible language and weak physique, were marshaled along trade routes until in Ghana an educated Arabian courtier in service of local aristocracy recognized that these mysterious pale men from distant Europa were fluent in classical languages, and even better - were literate. And so they were purchased, partly as a trophy for royal amusement, partly to utilize their skills in a region that remained largely ignorant of the great progress made in the neighboring regions towards restoration of ancient knowledge. Ultimately, the monks became true celebrities, who used their eloquence, knowledge, rich imagination, and art of illustration / illuminaton, to enchant the entire upper class of Ghana with stories about a wonderful land known as Wa-Les. They spun tales of its unrivaled natural beauty, of its exotic animals and plants, of its mighty fortresses, and most importantly - of its spirit. In the opulent court of Ghana, Wa-Les became known as a symbol of purity, a place where men threw away the corrupting burden of wealth, which they deemed an infantile aspiration, and instead reformed the very fabric of their community according to immaterial ideas of love and grace. It became a Shangri-La for entire generations of Ghana's wise men, the most valued topic among her dabbling philosophers, and many esteemed persons spent their wealth researching the possibilities of its existence, speculating about its nature, and trying to emulate the virtuous life it represented, hoping to be rewarded - in accordance with the cosmological system taught by the pale scholars - with the same natural harmony that ruled throughout Wa-Les' lush green expanses. Ultimately, a king rose to the throne for whom the quest to reach Wa-Les was a natural priority. He added the title "Master of The Red Dragon And the Golden Sheep" to his name, and decided to abandon life of debauchery and ostentatious luxury, typical of Ghana's ruling elites, and instead directed Ghana's mighty stream of gold towards the goal of making an epic journey into the heart of Europa, to rest his feet on the sacred soil of the legendary land. steinrokkan fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Oct 6, 2013 |
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Grey Hunter posted:Voting, Such as it was, is now over. Yet the sheet is still a vibrant, evolving organism.
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nimby posted:Is that a poetic way of Mansa Musa to say he killed the guy before him and hid the body really well? It isn't the only mention of a Malian fleet getting lost, and few historians have tried to reconstruct what they argue could have been an accidental journey to America: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1068950.stm It certainly is interesting fodder for alternate history scenarios.
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The only way forward is to topple the caliphate and other Muslim states with an army of vodoun zombies. The snake shall bring the dead to aid the living.
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Those Nordic gals aren't bald enough to get the Ogoona blood going.
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No wonder the Seljuks are on the rise: They control Bulgaria!
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Sampatrick posted:I feel like GreyHunter is very not good at this game I think I'll go with an average player keeping the outcome of the game ambiguous over a proficient player crushing the AI every time.
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Neruz posted:It's funny how often the story of "The growing number of Chinese immigrants competed aggressively with [Insert Here] and thus rules were established to limit the Chinese immigrants" has repeated itself around the world in western cultures. You would have thought at some point someone would have been happy for the massive influx of cheap labour. I have been going through a lot of White Australia articles from the 1930s, and the message always is this: "The Japanese are better organized than us, more competitive and entrepreneurial, cheaper, more frugal and honest and with a better sense for governance in the Pacific. That's why we must discriminate against them as hard as we can and prevent them from ever setting foot on Australian soil!" Dudes were drat insecure and terrified of the "lesser people" making them obsolete. I guess it has been that way since always.
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