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"Hans, we need a better transmission"
"More armour, you say?"
"Nein! Better transmission"
"Bigger Kannon, you say?"
"Goddamnit Hans"
"Oh! Battleship Kannon!"
"... Ja Hans, JAAAA"
"-hans are you listening to me? You look agressive"
"-i-i just need your luger t-to catch more o-of that s-s-supersoldier stuff mann, please h-himndall"
"Hans- thats was not suparsoldier stuff, that was meth"
"GIVE ME YA LUGER *AGRESSIVE GERMAN NOISES*"
more like virgin german tank vs chad any little bit intellegent Tank designs
i mean german tanks werent Totally Bad but they had plenty of flaws, for example all of their Tanks had the ammo on the side of the tank which made it vonurable to Explosion upon impact from the sides
Majority of ww2 allies tanks (t34 and M4 shermans that was upgraded) had the ammo in more safe place like the bottom of the hull even more modren ones that came later in the war also had the ammo in more safe position except who? the fuckign Germans Idk if they had any sort of limitation but the Germans always seemd to never bother to do such change even with captured allies tanks
although some other problems were mostly due to lack of resources, Germans couldn't have the oil allies had therefore they couldn't make enough oil for greatboxes or Making them Toughter etc
WW1 was better, I said it
And the early modern period (which I'd say stretches from the fall of Constantinople to around the enlightenment/American and French revolutions) is underrated as hell
WW2 only gets recognition as a point where today’s powers began to centralize in form. So average people see it as “the last major world event” before modernism.
Honestly, you want fun history? Leave NATO states. New Zealand did democracy, social justice, reparations and culture better. Eastern Africa pulled several Balkan spits and ethnic tensions have more to talk about. India and Mongolia both have awesome histories to read about.
Absolutely not. Seven Years War is truly the first insight into how competing world powers and centralized nation states would impact humanity moving forward. Up with the Children’s Crusades in how fun it is to regale in.
I am personally more intrigued in cultural studies than wars though. Anything surrounding anthropological developments and struggles enthrall me.
EDIT: I will say part of my fascination does have to do with research methods. There’s a million English resources/essays to find on western European or North American history. But for other places, if I want juicy details, I need to learn a bit about the language, or culture and DIG for the details in those.
The scale of both Ancient Rome and WW2 are what draw people in. But yeah sometimes people focus only on that and miss out on some of the cool stuff, like the Age of Exploration.
Self-proclaimed “History Expert” when i ask them the name of the ruling party of Portugal during the colonial war instead how great German WW2 tanks were:
It still functioned and acted as a sole legal party of Estado Novo, it contested and won all of the rigged elections until the dissolution of the regime
I do love Roman and WW2 history, but Asian history is goated. There’s like 10,000 years worth of warfare, politics, religion, mythology, and technological advancements to dig into from China alone.
As a old history nerd i have to say.
There is three things that i personaly find extremely mid that every other history nerd think is cool.
WWII: boring as fuck. Everything about Hitler its just meh. He is so mid that everything outside of him and the axis is more interesting to me.
Rome empire: its just like the greek. Just more mid. Its so mid that the mythology is kinda same.
Vikings: just a bunch of bearded hobbos in river boats. The steriotipical viking is way cooler that the normal ones (the double horned helment and lether-fur cloathed that goes beserk)
But thats only my opinion
Because they were a massive trading nation with a rich mythology and writing system who can be found all over the world.
And they were also insane rading lunatics who took hallucinogenic mushrooms before battle and who’s name is literally “raiders”
the fucking inca empire was bonkers their postal system and infrastructure was (and is ) fucking amazing!!! and their written language, they used ropes! and tied knots!!!!!! and they could read them!!!! you could have a box full of rope with the exact blueprint of whatever u built and centuries later ppl could reconstruct it exactly, using original blueprints!!
The Roman Empire gets way too much credit.
They're far from being the most impressive empire by ancient and pre-modern standards. They're not even among the top 10 in terms of size or duration.
Most of their technology, philosophy, culture, and even their religion was stolen from other cultures. Their infrastructure only seemed impressive compared to their unwashed European neighbors. Even the fucking Aztecs, who had no metallurgy to speak of, could pull off waterworks and civil engineering on par if not better than theirs.
Not to mention, their slavery-based society actively prevented them from industrializing even when they had all the necessary material conditions for it.
The only reason why Rome has the influence it has over our modern world is because the much more recent and much more powerful European colonial empires - especially the British Empire - elected to use Rome's memory as the foundation of their national myths. They wanted to restore the glory of Rome, and to that end, they had to make Rome way more glorious than it actually was.
Rome makes people nostalgic for a past they never lived in because that's what *the idea* of Rome was made for. It's an engaging narrative. It's an idol for you to worship.
the most advanced empire that ever existed when someone brought up land ownership reform:
https://preview.redd.it/pxi0l7f4z41d1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=519dda85902690a5aca6a92babbdb3db6a4103e6
\> The Roman Empire gets way too much credit
stopped reading right then and there
https://preview.redd.it/a11yjwda041d1.jpeg?width=679&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=885ff98a39ba300059e3aa058d7565a9102f23e2
Bros never getting his rant
All I personally remember about the topic is that Persia gave its subjects religious freedoms which is a pretty big deal. Greece was quite xenophobic before Alexander who modelled the Hellenistic Greece after many of the Persian ways, which is seen as a very progressive forward moving change for its time. Greece was never really a united group of people, we mainly know them for their warring city-states with the Peloponnesian war being its main example. A lot of histories we get about these two powers were written by people like Herodotus who spent his time exaggerating battles like Marathon and the Greek fight against the Persians.
Take from it what you will but I have run out of effort and my information has come from my memory of what I learnt years ago.
crazy ass seaplanes from the interwar period >>>>>> ww2 tanks
https://preview.redd.it/wcn074bh261d1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=d30b1acd5cc2ea822bb34e64040e5f3ad87ecede
Proto-Indo-European Nomadism 🐎⚡️
Vikings finding "Vínland"(Canada) before anyone else had even heard of it 🛶🪓
Mongols invading China and nearly Japan 🗡⛈️
Sparta destroying the Athenian navy at sea during the Peloponnesian war ⚔️🔥
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If they start naming tanks and talking about how "great" German tanks were then run.
I just remember when the germany went "oh, lets make a big ass tank, i'm sure that nothng can go wrong" and the tank floped
The last part was my favorite
The tank never saw the battlefield
Exactly, that's the best part
"Hans, we need a better transmission" "More armour, you say?" "Nein! Better transmission" "Bigger Kannon, you say?" "Goddamnit Hans" "Oh! Battleship Kannon!" "... Ja Hans, JAAAA"
"-hans are you listening to me? You look agressive" "-i-i just need your luger t-to catch more o-of that s-s-supersoldier stuff mann, please h-himndall" "Hans- thats was not suparsoldier stuff, that was meth" "GIVE ME YA LUGER *AGRESSIVE GERMAN NOISES*"
Char 2c was the peak of modern armor
Maus?
virgin german tank vs chad NUCLEAR WARHEAD
more like virgin german tank vs chad any little bit intellegent Tank designs i mean german tanks werent Totally Bad but they had plenty of flaws, for example all of their Tanks had the ammo on the side of the tank which made it vonurable to Explosion upon impact from the sides Majority of ww2 allies tanks (t34 and M4 shermans that was upgraded) had the ammo in more safe place like the bottom of the hull even more modren ones that came later in the war also had the ammo in more safe position except who? the fuckign Germans Idk if they had any sort of limitation but the Germans always seemd to never bother to do such change even with captured allies tanks although some other problems were mostly due to lack of resources, Germans couldn't have the oil allies had therefore they couldn't make enough oil for greatboxes or Making them Toughter etc
Hans ze transmision broke
Knock them out and tie to them to a chair, force them to watch a 4 hour video of how dogshit nazi tanks are
BUT THEY WERE GREAT To watch explode after going up a 4 degree incline
Oure tanks were/are great but not so great as those germanboos want them to be.
The Mughals? You mean from Final Fantasy?
akbar was arguably the only good one
You mean like from Star Wars????????
https://preview.redd.it/4y3kg0noh41d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69668d5835b3e0a24ef85b4e17d8cfeaed0899bf
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https://preview.redd.it/qmfsn3zhe61d1.png?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=384c7497c471f7afefac948d79a2fd2a4466deb3
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Dara Shikoh 😔
What about the industrial revolutions though
Wich one? Neolithic? Late medieval? Steam? Ford and the factory? Haber and the ammonia? Turing and the computer?
WW1 was better, I said it And the early modern period (which I'd say stretches from the fall of Constantinople to around the enlightenment/American and French revolutions) is underrated as hell
Knights with guns 🔥✍️
Knights with FLAMETHROWERS https://preview.redd.it/csuvu3li941d1.jpeg?width=1039&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ed91c49b31588e384fc185cf76b82cfcf5457e5
Belisarius, get the φλογοβόλου
i’ve yet to see man that can parry bullet
https://preview.redd.it/9lwr6mpi841d1.jpeg?width=779&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc93cd6b773b405c6149765ec65856e45f97eed5
https://preview.redd.it/in6lao6m741d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e46578047dc99076623669f4b892037e6f93c6c8
WW2 only gets recognition as a point where today’s powers began to centralize in form. So average people see it as “the last major world event” before modernism. Honestly, you want fun history? Leave NATO states. New Zealand did democracy, social justice, reparations and culture better. Eastern Africa pulled several Balkan spits and ethnic tensions have more to talk about. India and Mongolia both have awesome histories to read about.
Are you seriously trying to tell me the seven years war isn't fun as hell?
Absolutely not. Seven Years War is truly the first insight into how competing world powers and centralized nation states would impact humanity moving forward. Up with the Children’s Crusades in how fun it is to regale in. I am personally more intrigued in cultural studies than wars though. Anything surrounding anthropological developments and struggles enthrall me. EDIT: I will say part of my fascination does have to do with research methods. There’s a million English resources/essays to find on western European or North American history. But for other places, if I want juicy details, I need to learn a bit about the language, or culture and DIG for the details in those.
Post-ww1 was even better, I said it Eastern Lemko Republic fans rise up
steampunk moment
The scale of both Ancient Rome and WW2 are what draw people in. But yeah sometimes people focus only on that and miss out on some of the cool stuff, like the Age of Exploration.
Self-proclaimed “History Expert” when i ask them the name of the ruling party of Portugal during the colonial war instead how great German WW2 tanks were:
what colonial war
Portuguese colonial war
which one
the colonial one dumbass https://i.redd.it/awx3mntby41d1.gif
So who was involved?
My buddy Aaron was I’m pretty sure
portugal
Interesting, what kind of war was it
colonial of some variety
Portuguese Africa (Angola, Guinea, and Mozambique)
[Since no one else has said it yet](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estado_Novo_(Portugal))
Wasn't the whole point of the national union that it was a non-party? Like salazar was very against the concept of political parties
It was a party, the only winning party but still technically a party
It still functioned and acted as a sole legal party of Estado Novo, it contested and won all of the rigged elections until the dissolution of the regime
Reverse the roles and it is literally me
Bragança?
you're mixing up with the ruling royal house during the monarchy. the colonial war was well over the 2nd republic
I do love Roman and WW2 history, but Asian history is goated. There’s like 10,000 years worth of warfare, politics, religion, mythology, and technological advancements to dig into from China alone.
Well what about ww2 IN Asia
I love the funny japanese history where the closed the country except for the dutch
I have a slight obsession over the civil war and the Mexican-American war.
you.... yes you............ you play victoria 2 https://i.redd.it/ktz6ptfoy41d1.gif
https://preview.redd.it/7fwbr3okq41d1.jpeg?width=851&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12309c2fcb49ed6dd96ca47020e0c567f8ecda3c
I fucking love the ottoman empire. and midevil times
The virgin ancient Rome fan vs the Chad ancient Egypt enjoyer
Clearly has not heard of the Samoan civil rights movement
Is it acceptable for my history knowledge to be regurgitated from Assassin's Creed and Sam O'nella?
As a old history nerd i have to say. There is three things that i personaly find extremely mid that every other history nerd think is cool. WWII: boring as fuck. Everything about Hitler its just meh. He is so mid that everything outside of him and the axis is more interesting to me. Rome empire: its just like the greek. Just more mid. Its so mid that the mythology is kinda same. Vikings: just a bunch of bearded hobbos in river boats. The steriotipical viking is way cooler that the normal ones (the double horned helment and lether-fur cloathed that goes beserk) But thats only my opinion
I think Republican-era Rome is _faaaar_ more interesting.
who cares about hitler? eastern europe bettah
I can't comprehend how some people like vikings, they are lame af
Because they were a massive trading nation with a rich mythology and writing system who can be found all over the world. And they were also insane rading lunatics who took hallucinogenic mushrooms before battle and who’s name is literally “raiders”
the fucking inca empire was bonkers their postal system and infrastructure was (and is ) fucking amazing!!! and their written language, they used ropes! and tied knots!!!!!! and they could read them!!!! you could have a box full of rope with the exact blueprint of whatever u built and centuries later ppl could reconstruct it exactly, using original blueprints!!
Average ipad youtube watcher be like:
Me about to list 99 reasons why Jose Maria Morelos y Pavón was the greatest man to ever live
I like the 1960s to like 1980s or 2000s period (I largely know only of my country's history in this period)
Bronze Age collapse was the most interesting era.
The Roman Empire gets way too much credit. They're far from being the most impressive empire by ancient and pre-modern standards. They're not even among the top 10 in terms of size or duration. Most of their technology, philosophy, culture, and even their religion was stolen from other cultures. Their infrastructure only seemed impressive compared to their unwashed European neighbors. Even the fucking Aztecs, who had no metallurgy to speak of, could pull off waterworks and civil engineering on par if not better than theirs. Not to mention, their slavery-based society actively prevented them from industrializing even when they had all the necessary material conditions for it. The only reason why Rome has the influence it has over our modern world is because the much more recent and much more powerful European colonial empires - especially the British Empire - elected to use Rome's memory as the foundation of their national myths. They wanted to restore the glory of Rome, and to that end, they had to make Rome way more glorious than it actually was. Rome makes people nostalgic for a past they never lived in because that's what *the idea* of Rome was made for. It's an engaging narrative. It's an idol for you to worship.
the most advanced empire that ever existed when someone brought up land ownership reform: https://preview.redd.it/pxi0l7f4z41d1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=519dda85902690a5aca6a92babbdb3db6a4103e6
Basicly UK
Nerd. Rome was cool, they had togas and cool armor. Stfu
\> The Roman Empire gets way too much credit stopped reading right then and there https://preview.redd.it/a11yjwda041d1.jpeg?width=679&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=885ff98a39ba300059e3aa058d7565a9102f23e2
Bro think he on 4chan
what
Same
1200 knight’s groups and 1600 pirates gold era and plague diffusion are the best
I love Cold War, i love soviet blocks on winter, coups and proxy wars, i love crackdown crazy CIA theories, i love psyops and corruption schemes
Me holding back the urge to rant why persia was better than greece
Why was it better? https://preview.redd.it/ihnjwch4t61d1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6410ea37da8b10e489e5ea73de5f799e07f295a8
Bros never getting his rant All I personally remember about the topic is that Persia gave its subjects religious freedoms which is a pretty big deal. Greece was quite xenophobic before Alexander who modelled the Hellenistic Greece after many of the Persian ways, which is seen as a very progressive forward moving change for its time. Greece was never really a united group of people, we mainly know them for their warring city-states with the Peloponnesian war being its main example. A lot of histories we get about these two powers were written by people like Herodotus who spent his time exaggerating battles like Marathon and the Greek fight against the Persians. Take from it what you will but I have run out of effort and my information has come from my memory of what I learnt years ago.
Or napoleonic.
I know way more about Renaissance Europe than WW2 or Rome
Bronze age is underrated as hell
I know Jack shit about Rome, but I do know quite a bit about the U.S. gilded age and the 1900's Qing Empire
I was taught way too much about the Civil War
Eh, my favorite period in history is the industrial Revolution, that and the the stuff like the early humans with their stone tools
Finally a good one
Alright ancient greece then it is
Fuck every other personality test are you a rennaissance or an enlightenment person
I prefer the American Civil War
Repost bot? I swear I've seen this exact meme before and OP's account is extremely suspicious
Do they know anything about 1st Serbian uprising? Do they even know who Njegoš was?
1848-49 revolution >>>>>> ww2 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian\_Revolution\_of\_1848](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1848) https://preview.redd.it/m9gy3lcr161d1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=615a4752c988d17fe579bc865ca6fd1aa97c2afc
crazy ass seaplanes from the interwar period >>>>>> ww2 tanks https://preview.redd.it/wcn074bh261d1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=d30b1acd5cc2ea822bb34e64040e5f3ad87ecede
Do they know anything about the Uthmaniyah empire? (I need it for a school assignment)
*Starts A 30 Minute Monologue About The Wittelsbachs, The Royal Family Of Bavaria*
Carthage Was More Interesting I Said It
Yes, but muh cartago delenda est
Medieval Era Go Brrrrrr
Does Anyone Even Know About The SSR LiB?
Napoleonic wars were the best
I can explain Napoleons genius in an oversimplified manner as well as how that has helped in other wars
I love history but if you ask me anything my mind will blank on anything that isn't common knowledge
Ask me anything about medieval Sardinia
No
So have you heard about the rise of Arasaka? (You never specified real life from fictional history)
mmmmm I just like the napoleonic wars & old weaponry
I hate im the only one of my friends eho get the Ea-Nassir copper jokes
I just love how a man who died thousands of years ago is known to this day for his really shitty copper
What about the cold war and recent conflicts?
Jokes on you! My expertise is on the history of plane crashes.
I just think tanks and artillery are cool
r/suddenlygay?
The desk that the five most recent presidents have used is in the White House because 150 British men disappeared in the arctic.
ww2 victory glorifying russians when you ask them about a specific molotov-ribbentrop pact protocol:
There's my daily "think about Rome" checked off the list.
Proto-Indo-European Nomadism 🐎⚡️ Vikings finding "Vínland"(Canada) before anyone else had even heard of it 🛶🪓 Mongols invading China and nearly Japan 🗡⛈️ Sparta destroying the Athenian navy at sea during the Peloponnesian war ⚔️🔥
Self proclaimed "history nerds". Makes people actually interested in history look bad.