Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "SandRhoman History" channel.

  1. @ahmetozkan438  There were also rules requiring yearly jihad. How many people do you think followed those? Also, since when were the Turks always at the profiting side of the slave trade? The region has been raided, conquered, and broken up so many times over the years. Since when have people stuck to only sleeping with their wives/husbands? Heck, in the days of aristocracy, a lot of marriages were shams meant to seal dynastic alliances. Since when was it not uncommon for women to move out far away from their family to set up a new life somewhere else? Since when was it impossible for a man from a minority to rise to great heights in Turkey and marry who he pleased (especially if he's a mercenary captain)? In fact, the rules you bring up never even applied to the whole empire but varied between sanjaks and varied with the decades, with often enforcement of the rule being near zero. This is all besides cultural norms, which people adopt from the people around them as they grow up. Needless to say, Turkey has almost nothing in common with Turkmenistan in that regard.
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  2. Over 200 years afterwards
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  3. Why does everything have to have incompatible consonants...
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  4. Most of the country changed hands at some point
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  5. Don't think for a minute they were all Christians. Ottoman commanders would pressgang whomever was conveniently available
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  6. This war had nothing to do with religion
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  7. @nofux8586  the Ottoman's religious composition varied with the decades
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  8. The difference between a merc and a soldier is a middleman. Italian states were more like corporations than nations and the security contractors they hired sometimes really were loyal to the company
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  9. The climate is akin to the southern coast of Alaska, that's our definition of sub-arctic
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  10. Shut up
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  11. Pop culture is more interested in spectacle? Since when is that new?
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  12. You don't know the guy
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  13. You'd be surprised how many problems can be solved with a big gun....
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  14. BTW, this recruitment system was why for the longest of time it was possible to buy rank in many European armies.
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  15. Vhut?
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  16. 4:00 Henri II didn't happen to lead a calvary arm, did he?
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  17. Lose the sycophancy
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  18. No, the king was automatically the commander and chief of the armed forces. Some dynasties allowed men to marry into that role, others did not and thus they had to select a male from the family.
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  19. Anything could have happened if you change anything in the past.
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  20. That guy took Egypt. The Balkans are a different matter
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  21.  @GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser  he did, in fact, attack the Ottomans at one point
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  22. Stupified with bravery
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  23. @Force A1  Gulf War is a bad example for anything at all because the Iraqis were incompetent to the point that US Bradley vehicles had a perfect record taking out tanks.
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  24.  @piscessoedroen  bug off
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  25.  @piscessoedroen  bug off
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  26. New York was originally New Amsterdam
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  27. One subtle factor is Italy was both wealthy and broken to the point where private corporations often overshadow geographically defined states
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  28. How?
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  29.  @Nomadicenjoyer31  Literally. These areas fought against the Sultan more often than they followed orders.
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  30. Vhut?
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  31. The city of Troy definitely existed, but invincible soldiers and 60,000 man campaigns in the bronze age did not
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  32.  @OK-yy6qz  you talk so much but say so little... Look, not even Alexander the Great had an army that large because pre-industrial logistics didn't allow it. Even so, there were no real cities in Archaic Greece.
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  33. We've had internationally recognized countries that haven't lasted that long
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  34. @VinnieG-  that's the Ottomans. They don't kill people conquer thheir lands, they killed people so they could say they owned the land
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  35. @VinnieG-  Let's put it this way: Only 20% of taxes owed were collected, and only 20% of that physically arrived at the Ottoman palace
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  36. @VinnieG-  No, the real fraud was the assertion the Ottomans were owed taxes (also, corruption losses). At any given time, much of the Ottoman government was defunct, a situation that only got worse as it expanded.
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  37. @VinnieG- Ottoman tax collection was more violent than American COIN.
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  38. Earthly reasons
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  39. Who gives a shit? This was centuries ago
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  40. No
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  41. As the Hapsburgs said, Men do not conquer lands, women do. They said this because more land changed hands due to simple dynastic marriages than by long sieges and seizures.
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  42. That is not remotely Roman
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  43. @kuvikina  they were often depicted as invincible elite groups which was a lie but caused them to be overrepresented in the sources
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  44.  @patnor7354  Most of the boys weren't raped. That's what they kidnapped women for. Also, these boys were taken by extortion as part of a treaty
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  45. Shut up before we pressgang you into the Ukrainian Foreign Legion.
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  46.  @stephengayton5246  Not exactly. With other Crusades there was a leader of a faction that was by far the largest. For instance, much of King Richard's army was indirectly loyal via barons who served on contract, with lots of French and other volunteers picked up along the way.
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  47.  @michaeldanmosley4169  not if you know anything
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  48. I think it literally means Panther Rider.
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  49. He doesn't even go over the grievances. You'd need a whole series for that much detail
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  50.  @greghall4836  Lying about what's in the video will get you doxxed
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