I don't think you got the idea what a professional army is, try looking at google a bit.
The only other nation in Ancient history to have a Professional Army as well were of course, le Romans.
I used to not like Skyrim related jokes, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
I'm in here since period 1, yay. Btw, you should probably put a Napoleon scandal period in there, or does it qualify in the 3rd period already?
You have to use Bhaskara in this one, you know. [IMG]
It would be like a Nord coalition ruling the seas, that would be a sight to see. =P
To be fair, I like ancient China, actually, all of China's history until the Ming dinasty, after that they became boring.
Well, he asked about them damn Assyrians, that's what I answered.
Only their army, the people didn't really like being ruled by them since they were kind of a bunch of slaughterers. They did have the first ever...
Yeah, Napoleon and Hitler are considered the first 2 anti-christs because they brought (not Napoleon really) suffereing to the world in their times...
You lost the point, I wasn't saying that the major powers allying with each other was cowardice, I was saying that they having combined huge armies...
Wait, wasn't Harold a saxon? He's not from Scandinavia, saxons came from northern germany. Btw, I'm not one for speculations, so I'll leave that...
Cowardice was evading Napoleon to not fight him directly, or burning your cities, or joining in more than 2 major powers to defeat a single nation...
That's explained by the feudalism idea, the more land you had, the richer you were, so I don't know if city-states were a good idea to start with,...
Well, one thing leads to another. The rivalry between France and Britain ultimately led to the colonization of North America and the creation of 2 of...
And if you're Latino-American or Brazilian, you see him as a liberator, the Polish as well.
But off-topic derailing is so cool.
Sohei FTW!!!
Woah, you could say he's a unique user now. =P
I think you lost the last part of my post, where I do say that it did create one of the biggest rivalries of all time.
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