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Title: Rise and fall of Empires Post by: DonutKing on 10/10/2010, 07:08 AM Here's a cool site showing 5000 years of history in 90 seconds :)
http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf Some other interesting things on the site as well like maps for religion and democracy http://www.mapsofwar.com/maps.html Title: Re: Rise and fall of Empires Post by: Chalice on 10/10/2010, 07:58 AM WOW, in that perspective the Mongols really had a go of it didn't they? ???
Some of those countries were taken and retaken every 100 years or so it seemed..poor fucks :( Title: Re: Rise and fall of Empires Post by: -NeOpHyTe- on 10/10/2010, 09:28 AM thats pretty cool donut - where the hell do you find this stuff??
i wonder if the seppos thought of this when they invaded iraq and tried to turn that country to a democracy - its been a hot bed for EVER and will probably remain so for a long time makes you glad that you were born on a friggin big island :D :D :D :D Title: Re: Rise and fall of Empires Post by: bageled on 10/10/2010, 10:23 AM Nice find Donut.
The macedonian empire is amazing when you consider it was one army that conquered all of that in a decade or so. Talk about KDR's, check out the Battle of Gaugamela, the Macedonians took on an army twice their size, on ground their enemy had chosen and prepared for the battle. The persions used scythed chariots, so they chose a flat plain that they removed all large rocks from to maximise their chaiots effectiveness. The macedonians, had just short of 50,000 men, the persians had almost 100,000. Macedonian casualties were around 3,000, persian casualties around 40,000. Alexander the great is an interesting character to study, definetly laid some of the foundations for our modern society. The guy was taught battle by Phillip of Macedon who was a military genius in his own right. Phillip was teh first general to use mixed forces that included cavalry, in a time when phalanxes were the accepted norm. At 13 Alexander was put under the tutelage of one of the greatest philosphers of all time, Aristotle. I thought the French and British empires were notable absences. Title: Re: Rise and fall of Empires Post by: KARNAGE on 10/10/2010, 02:24 PM them persians were pretty big, couldn't take over Greece/Sparta though :D love 300
Title: Re: Rise and fall of Empires Post by: DonutKing on 10/10/2010, 03:26 PM Quote thats pretty cool donut - where the hell do you find this stuff?? Saw it on another forum :)Quote I thought the French and British empires were notable absences. Title: Re: Rise and fall of Empires Post by: Jstar on 10/10/2010, 04:49 PM Yea the Europeon colonialism was huge. So yea that was the basically that sorta stuff.
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