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by sifaka » Mon Mar 18, 2013 3:19 am
Blind groper wrote:Tyrannical wrote:I don't think the Maori or Apache qualify as a civilization.
The best you can say is that, in war, the death toll was low, due to their [the Maoris'] own lack of technology and
warfare ineptitude.
Nasty, yes. Civilised, no.
You might want to give the good news to all the British soldiers who died fighting them during the Land Wars.
as for the "Top Ten Most Terrifying Civilizations". Well, any civilization/culture/empire had to be nasty to make it to the top (and probably still does), so the idea of a top ten is pretty naff.
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by Blind groper » Mon Mar 18, 2013 4:29 am
sifaka wrote:
You might want to give the good news to all the British soldiers who died fighting them during the Land Wars.
Which was
after they got muskets. Kind of a game changer.
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by SteveB » Mon Mar 18, 2013 4:53 am
No Sparta...they threw weak babies into a pit outside of town. We have them to thank for dumpster babies.
Twit, twat,
twaddle.
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by Jason » Mon Mar 18, 2013 4:58 am
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by SteveB » Mon Mar 18, 2013 5:02 am
That part was historically inaccurate as with the other 99.99999% of the movie.
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by Jason » Mon Mar 18, 2013 5:06 am
She was sleeping with the Persian messenger. Just wanted to tie up loose ends.
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by John_fi_Skye » Mon Mar 18, 2013 10:44 am
Pappa wrote:John_fi_Skye wrote:Pappa wrote:Coito ergo sum wrote:Seabass wrote:What is a "Viking Empire"?
And why isn't the Merkin Empire on that list?
Yeah, I wondered about the Viking "Empire" too. They were never fully unified. I think they should have just referred to it as the Viking civilization.
The Celts were completely un-unified too. They spent as much time fighting each other as they did the Romans.
Celts are still the same. Sadly, sadly, Scots Gaelic is going to die out, and in large part that's because so many of its native speakers haven't been able to agree on how to save it.
But, as long as we beat the English we don't mind.
Wales dun good at the weekend.
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by Svartalf » Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:40 am
Pfftt, symbolic and without any real consequences beside where publicans make more money.
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by Azathoth » Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:53 am
Makes me laugh that the nazis are towards the top of the list. If you have the whole of human history to play with they were a bunch of pussycats
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by John_fi_Skye » Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:53 am
Svartalf wrote:Pfftt, symbolic and without any real consequences beside where publicans make more money.
Of course you're right Svarty, but I'm pragmatic enough not to mind paying the publican to enhance my euphoria in such moments!
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Mar 18, 2013 12:08 pm
SteveB wrote:That part was historically inaccurate as with the other 99.99999% of the movie.
The Spartans had swords and shields. The rest is very iffy. Like the ephors, who were elected for one year terms. That bit in the movie was just to get some boobies out.
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