Ancient History

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  1. The Evil Major Well-Known Member

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    Also Europeans have had one really important advantage (although kinda disadvantage) in history: being so divided, which lead to competition (arms racing for example) and competition led to technology, colonizing etc. But china in asia had no one to compete against thus leaving china behind.
    The Evil Major, Dec 14, 2011
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  2. GeneralofCarthage Well-Known Member

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    Chinese history is just boring PERIOD. How can you like the constant overthrowing of emperors/dynasties?
    GeneralofCarthage, Dec 14, 2011
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  3. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    Chinese history is the more repetitive history of the world.
    Viking Socrates, Dec 14, 2011
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  4. GeneralofCarthage Well-Known Member

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    Thank You!
    GeneralofCarthage, Dec 14, 2011
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  5. Bart (Moderator) NKVD Channel Maintainer

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    Just because you're not interested, means that we can't talk about it? Then leave. Also, at first you told us that we couldn't talk about the Spanish, and now you suddenly state that we can't speak about ACIENT China. Grow up.
    Bart, Dec 15, 2011
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  6. slydessertfox Total War Branch Head

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    The Assyrians still had the first professional army. It is fact.
    slydessertfox, Dec 15, 2011
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  7. yuri2045 A Marines Biologist

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    The only other nation in Ancient history to have a Professional Army as well were of course, le Romans.
    yuri2045, Dec 15, 2011
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  8. slydessertfox Total War Branch Head

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    Didn't the Persians have a professional army?

    Im reading the Fall of Rome right now and I am completely shocked at how advanced the Visigoths were. In a lot of fields they were more advanced then the Romans even before they entered the Roman territory. This completely shocked me.
    slydessertfox, Dec 15, 2011
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  9. yuri2045 A Marines Biologist

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    I don't think you got the idea what a professional army is, try looking at google a bit.
    yuri2045, Dec 15, 2011
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  10. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    Assyrians are the definition of badass.
    Viking Socrates, Dec 15, 2011
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  11. GeneralofCarthage Well-Known Member

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    I never said you couldn't talk about it. I just said that it is boring.
    GeneralofCarthage, Dec 15, 2011
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  12. Aloysius Well-Known Member

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    The only proffesional troops the persians had in acient times was the bodyguards and i believe some cavalry. being that there use of cavalry contributed to the creation of there empire. Otherwise it was just a bunch of levies with light armour and only the slightest hint of formations. (if you call a loose square/rectangle a legitimet formation)
    Back then it was normal to have some form of weapon and knowledge of basic combat for survival.
    Aloysius, Dec 15, 2011
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  13. Bart (Moderator) NKVD Channel Maintainer

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    Then stop killing our topic with your comments and let us discuss it.
    Bart, Dec 16, 2011
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  14. ddbb089 Well-Known Member

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    Weren't the greeks the first in army professionalism?

    Also who was the best leader of any ainchent civilization?
    I'd say Gaius Marius of Rome or Pericles of Greece.
    ddbb089, Dec 16, 2011
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  15. Romulus211 Proconsul

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    I think the Macedonians were the first to actually pay there soldiers
    Romulus211, Dec 16, 2011
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  16. Toast Well-Known Member

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    Hannibal Barca. Some of the shit he pulled off is debated to be impossible.
    Toast, Dec 16, 2011
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  17. battleearl Well-Known Member

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    What was the first civilization that used mercenaries?
    battleearl, Dec 16, 2011
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  18. yuri2045 A Marines Biologist

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    The Greeks never had a professional army, you guys apparently don't know the concept of it.

    A professional army is actually a standing army, that means, no levies, just plain soldiers that live off of wars and they get paid for it.
    yuri2045, Dec 16, 2011
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  19. UnholyKnight800 Well-Known Member

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    What about ancient India?
    UnholyKnight800, Dec 16, 2011
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  20. yuri2045 A Marines Biologist

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    They did manage to keep Alexander out of their lands, I don't know too much about them though.
    yuri2045, Dec 16, 2011
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