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can you imagine going like 80k in debt to learn everything there is to know, about the gay rear end romans
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fanged wang posted:can you imagine going like 80k in debt to learn everything there is to know, about the gay rear end romans thanks to this thread, everyoine can
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fanged wang posted:can you imagine going like 80k in debt to learn everything there is to know, about the gay rear end romans what did you go to school for fanged wang and whats your profession. what are your hobbies and interests?
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A good way to troll racists is to call the Ottomans the Third Roman Empire.
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im a big gay nerd too i just dont think the romans were the bees knees and here is why: they never did anything cool
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fanged wang posted:protomongols pwned the gently caress out of rome militarily like a thousand years before genghis and the mongols never got their poo poo pushed in by lol frenchman they were victims of their own runaway success which is probably the most baller way to fail as an empire the mongols were also fine with including conquered peoples into their armies and stuff, along with local governors/governance. they also got started on makign their own written language, etc. it's just the inheritance crises plus being originally a bunch of rootless nomads made it harder for them to consolidate properly after sweepign across the world
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p. sure I'm the reincarnation of this dude:
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fanged wang posted:persians had like a bill of rights and were the most progressive and humane empire the achaemenids were ok the parthians were a bunch of steppe barbarians and don'T loving COUNT OK TAKE IT FROM ME, A NOBLEMAN FROM SHIRAZ CIRCA 45 AD the sassanids were theocratic shitheads on par with any other empire you'd care to name. i guess they were nicer to the jews than most, overall
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Accordion Man posted:A good way to troll racists is to call the Ottomans the Third Roman Empire. How many fake Roman Empires were there after the collapse anyway? It's a hard thing to just look up.
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the best minor god was priapus On a side note in roman culture a massive cock was seen as grotesque and barbaric. here's a lovely poem, basically a big penis statue was a old school system scare robbers since Priapus was also the protector of the home quote:
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Or alternatively I'm this guy and his amazing bra hat
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MegaGatts posted:The romans also had a much more fleshed out auxiliary. The legions get all the credit, but they were just part of a well oiled machine of archers, artillery, and infantry. and cavalry, who were a big deal. a lot of peopel credit superior roman cavalry to ending hannibal's 15+ year win streak
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of course the oregonian sympathises wiht the plaid-wearing barbaroi
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paranoid randroid posted:of course the oregonian sympathises wiht the plaid-wearing barbaroi see also: novelty beards, tattoos, piercings, unnecessary nudity
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TEAYCHES posted:weve had a lot of discussions about polearms recently, but why do you think legionary style sword and shields won out over pike formations in antiquity? I put it down to the discipline, tactics, flexibility and the auxiliary of the romans. Think about a phalanx. In order for it to be effective it needs to remain cohesive. that cohesion, because of their long spears, reduces the speed. The romans used various formations, some were slow and plodding like a phalanx, others offered maneuverability. The use of short swords gave them this flexibility. That means they could effectively disengage. That was the crux of Roman military dominance. Always having a fresh man on the line. A short sword lets someone fall back much easier than a 12 foot long spear. This combined with a well disciplined auxiliary core with archers and javelins made the Romans a nightmare for relatively undisciplined armies of their day. I don't care how good you are, fighting for for hours straight while being pelted with javelins and arrows will gently caress your army up. Lets not forget the Romans didn't forgo spears all together, the triarii, the most veteran and capable soldiers of the Republic carried spears. So, I feel, the short answer is flexibility. In the west at least. During this time the Chinese used halberd like weapons and would continue to do so for 2000 years.
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Mange Mite posted:and cavalry, who were a big deal. a lot of peopel credit superior roman cavalry to ending hannibal's 15+ year win streak I credit Hannibal being a retard who invaded an empire with the only resupply chain being on the other side of a mountain range therefore causing him to recruit disloyal and untrained replacements by force to fight against their own people to his eventual defeat. I'm surprised that idiot lasted as long as he did.
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Mange Mite posted:see also: novelty beards, tattoos, piercings, unnecessary nudity Few know the Naked Bike Ride of Portland actually dates back to the flight of Vercengetorix and his followers from the Roman-occupied Avernii city on their 12 speeds
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Mange Mite posted:the mongols were also fine with including conquered peoples into their armies and stuff, along with local governors/governance. the khan system was p bad and yeah the thing that made it easy for them to conquer everything, being ruthless cowboy motherfuckers, was not conducive to sitting around administrating stuff and learning poetry.
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MegaGatts posted:I put it down to the discipline, tactics, flexibility and the auxiliary of the romans. see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8LiQFnkuJY
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The Human Crouton posted:I credit Hannibal being a retard who invaded an empire with the only resupply chain being on the other side of a mountain range therefore causing him to recruit disloyal and untrained replacements by force to fight against their own people to his eventual defeat. I'm surprised that idiot lasted as long as he did. I like how the romans got so loving fed up of Hannibal&co trolling their empire that they razed all of Carthage
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a bunch of woolly germans made an entire legion disappear like that plane, bc the romans were not that great at war
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MegaGatts posted:I put it down to the discipline, tactics, flexibility and the auxiliary of the romans. The romans did have trouble facing the Macedonian style phalanx system. Eventually they learned to hold back and look for gaps in the phalanx. The phalanx was a really unwieldy formation and over bad terrain gaps would naturally form in line. The romans would send small groups of soldiers to charge into to the weak spots and start destroying the phalanx from the inside. Up close your phalanx only had a small dagger vs. a roman with a short sword.
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The Human Crouton posted:I credit Hannibal being a retard who invaded an empire with the only resupply chain being on the other side of a mountain range therefore causing him to recruit disloyal and untrained replacements by force to fight against their own people to his eventual defeat. I'm surprised that idiot lasted as long as he did. he expected to fight them and win, not get blueballed for 20 years. not to mention the fact that supply was way less organized back then period. honestly one of hte big reasons the romans won in the end is because for whatever reason culturally they were able to tolerate the fabian strategy for as long as they did. standing by and/or running away while foreigners burn down your heartland is drat hard to keep up in terms of political will, discipline, etc., and its impressive that they managed. i certainly wouldn't have bet on it.
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roman armies were regularly trounced by lol their own slaves
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fanged wang posted:roman armies were regularly trounced by lol their own slaves It's okay to get beaten by Manu Bennet
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Mange Mite posted:and cavalry, who were a big deal. a lot of peopel credit superior roman cavalry to ending hannibal's 15+ year win streak The cavalry were most def pretty important, but they never really had the numbers to rely on them. They were used mostly for harassing skirmishers and acting as the hammer to the legions anvil. Especially during the republic days. Anyone who had a horse had to buy it, feed it, and equip it themselves. But they were an important part to the Roman war machine. And calling their army a machine is really apt. it had so many moving parts and each part is rather ineffective without the others. However, when it was all working as intended it was pretty much invincible in its day.
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Here's an album of some pictures I took from my trip to Rome, Pompeii and Ostia back in November for anyone interested http://imgur.com/a/G65oF this one is my favorite  if you're new in town you follow the dicks on the ground in Pompeii to find your way to the nearest Brothel
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Claudius Gothicus triumphed over the Goths.
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fanged wang posted:a bunch of woolly germans made an entire legion disappear like that plane, bc the romans were not that great at war Actually,
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TEAYCHES posted:Actually, It was the chimps
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The Human Crouton posted:I credit Hannibal being a retard who invaded an empire with the only resupply chain being on the other side of a mountain range therefore causing him to recruit disloyal and untrained replacements by force to fight against their own people to his eventual defeat. I'm surprised that idiot lasted as long as he did. what have you accomplished with your life you rotund retard
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Mustang posted:this one is my favorite lol
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fanged wang posted:a bunch of woolly germans made an entire legion disappear like that plane, bc the romans were not that great at war youre leaving out the part where the germans couldnt capitalize ont his because all the other chieftains were too pissing their britches terrified of the romans to join up with arminius, and then the romans came back later and killed everyone on the german side of the river they could lay hands on
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Frostwerks posted:what have you accomplished with your life you rotund retard 
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hannibal was such a badass the romans put statues of him up in rome
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paranoid randroid posted:youre leaving out the part where the germans couldnt capitalize ont his because all the other chieftains were too pissing their britches terrified of the romans to join up with arminius, and then the romans came back later and killed everyone on the german side of the river they could lay hands on i listened to the audiobook of i, cladius so i have a pretty good grip on all of this imo
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hannibal was such a badass the romans chased him down halfway across the world to kill him because they were so freaked out by him just being alive
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TEAYCHES posted:i listened to the audiobook of i, cladius so i have a pretty good grip on all of this imo the part where there's a fight between an elephant and a rhino was DAF (Dope As gently caress) imo
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paranoid randroid posted:hannibal was such a badass the romans chased him down halfway across the world to kill him because they were so freaked out by him just being alive Mithridates VI got foiled and came back to fight again so many times I literally cannot imagine him without the voice of Cobra Commander
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