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

@latte2475 Liars get scalped
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@rodrigorafael.9645 If I said anything else, I would conflict what is in the video
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@lolasdm6959 Weird exaggerations. The scientific revolution simply never happened in China
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@lolasdm6959 Doesn't matter when the iron is +1,000 miles away overland. It was cheaper to import finished steel products from England than it was to make them locally. When a railroad connected the Donbas coal mines to the Urals iron mines, Russia became one of the largest steel producers as fast as they could build factories, savvy?
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@yoshihammerbro435 Besides the video? Chinese armies often have more men than they do weapons and that was the case in the War of the Heavenly Horses and in the Korean War and everything in between, and throughout these armies had a mismatch of armor types based simply one what was available and what they could afford. Mao was on record saying they didn't fear nuclear war as they were willing to lose ten million people. During the warlord period most soldiers had pistols because they couldn't afford rifles and many of the pistols were counterfeit but others were good copies of European guns. Colonial era Europeans complained of the Chinese economy, saying many men were making a living doing things that Europeans left to pack animals, and there was a shortage of skilled trades that could build/repair ships/engines/tools.
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The Greeks only sent grown men to their deaths. Get over it.
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People back then would support politicians all the same as they do today
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It means Panther Rider, but panther is synonymous with armored tank in German
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@ahmetozkan438 dude, it took months to get a message across the empire. You find it incredulous that cliques could quietly enforce their own rules? That's actually what happened in Saddam's Iraq too, as conspiracies between officials to do this or that was the norm. In the Ottoman's case, the Sultan once issued an order to clear up the east of pirates who were eating into tax revenues. The army commanders were receiving bribes from some of the extortionists, so they lied and said the Sultan said to hunt Armenian pirates. The junior officers wanted loot so they lied and said the Sultan ordered the Armenians who are all pirates to be hunted. Individual soldiers wanted to hide their crimes so they lied and said the Sultan ordered the Armenians to be killed. Welcome to the Ottoman Empire.
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@ggoddkkiller1342 you wouldn't even know what Vilayet Jerusalem was in at the time.
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It's war. Shit happened. Also, these were hastily assembled forces. They weren't necessarily friends.
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@FiveLiver Or at least pretended to.
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Trench warfare is seen at any point in history where fortifications are king.
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Not relevant to our lives
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No, that's speculation as a result of war propaganda. Many whole cities were vacated but most inhabitants didn't die but fled with several cities overcrowded with refugees at any given time. Virtually the whole country was displaced at some point. Casualties were extreme but not apocalyptic.
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@robert48044 Most Popes weren't into Crusader things. And the Pope never gave Jerusalem as an objective that I recall. The call up was to "defend the church."
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@robert48044 that's a Jewish thing
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He'd have hundreds of thousands of descendants
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There's more to an army than a commander. Hannibal's army spent several years in small campaigns preparing for total war, and they took everything Carthage could throw at Rome when they left
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3:16 That marriage also broke church law on cousin marriages.
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@brendon1689 The Commies equate themselves with all Chinese dynasties until you speak of their totalitarian tendencies
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Not necessarily a racket. Many of these companies were loyal to specific states
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@cjthebeesknees what are you talking about?
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@cjthebeesknees please tell me that's a sick joke
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I think you're drawing hyperbole from partisan sources
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Shut up. Those guys are dead
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@SterbiusMcGurbius quit being silly
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@SterbiusMcGurbius you wouldn't even frickin know who that is.
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@SterbiusMcGurbius Does my name look Turkish to you, pendejo?
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The imprint can be seen today. Ottoman rule basically consisted of centuries of highly localized Greek rule and Turkish piracy. Some of it legal, as licensed tax collectors were literally allowed to do anything at all as long as they paid the Sultan, and some of it illegal piracy since the Greeks weren't allowed armies that the Sultan didn't control. You can see it in the architecture today, where all Greek buildings are made to look small and modest from the front. In one island, extreme examples are found where residents carve their homes out of the rock and surround them with dense trees and bushes. Businesses that couldn't hide had two sets of books, one for the tax men and one for friends, a custom that continues to this day (the only Greeks that file taxes even today are men who can afford to pay an accountant to cook the books).
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@vangelisskia214 Turkish culture is where people are expected to behave in a domineering manner towards the competition, whomever that may be at the time.
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@Nomadicenjoyer31 Speaking Turkish and having Turkish DNA are two totally different things. Are the British mostly of Norman French origin? No, Norman French was simply the language of the courts and the elites for a time.
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@ahmetozkan438 A curious blanket assertion, given that's exactly what the Bedouin of Jordan and Palestine/Israel did. Also, the Indians assimilated into the US, most of the settlers of Brazil's major cities were native jungle peoples looking for work (NOT EUROPEANS)... Actually, your blanket assessment doesn't make any sense. Maybe you just notice the nomads on the outskirts of society more.
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@ahmetozkan438 Dude, even where inter-religious and inter-racial marriages were illegal (like al-Andulus) DNA studies show that mixed race children were the norm. At least part of this was that women were common war booty at least until WWI, and possibly even to this day. For instance, when the Ottomans expelled the Greeks and Armenians from their territory, a large portion of the young women were kept as sex slaves. And the ease with how people could fraudulently identify as Turkish meant many love marriages across peoples were simply hiding in plain sight. Comprende?
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@kuvikina no one I mentioned ever had a major British population
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@ahmetozkan438 You're thinking of the late Ottoman period.
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@kuvikina lying isn't necessary in this instance
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@kuvikina liars burn in hell.
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Clerical states were stereotyped as pacifists, but that was part of the reason behind the spread of mercenary companies since they often just outsourced that stuff to security contractors
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The fact you feel the need to say that implies there is reason to believe otherwise
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@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser given the level of bullshit surrounding everything Ottoman, don't be surprised when people get skeptical
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Because the Ottomans only ruled Africa on paper. Key lords had to pay protection money, which they did because the Ottomans would throw away whole armies just so they could pretend they won. The Ottomans only had actual power over what is now western and central Turkey with small colonies all over.
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@kuvikina Are you counting Istanbul as the Balkans?
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That has nothing to do with what I just said di3727
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Relevance?
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This isn't any different from all the other dozens of times migrant warrior companies inserted themselves as elites in various lands
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The chain shot cutting ropes wss tested by Mythbusters. They found the two half shots did not spread near to work as intended.
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@l00k69 but the shot would simply spread slowly like a charge of grape
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