EPTWho's Your Favorite CONQUEROR? - Page 4
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Attican
Denmark531 Posts
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Chaosvuistje
Netherlands2581 Posts
Get father poisoned by rivaling tribe, hunted down a long time for the most of the beginning of his life. Being captured by Chinese. Then taking it all back and conquering more than he knew actually existed. You could make a courage wolf meme on that because its just THAT badass. Not only that, the legends about him are pretty amazing. | ||
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Attican
Denmark531 Posts
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mardi
United States1164 Posts
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ELA
Denmark4608 Posts
I mean, he was an evil evil man, but the fact that he pulled off what he did and that he managed to do it in the 20th century, is pretty impressive.. Be it despicable. Either way, Im pretty sure neither Alexander or Ghengis Khan were saints either, to say the least | ||
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optical630
United Kingdom768 Posts
genghis khan fucked so many princesses and women when he rampaged his way through asia and eastern europe that approximatly every 1 in 200 people in Asia are related to him ^^ pretty badass on its own tbh  | ||
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Suxces
Germany103 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + no ofc not, just joking | ||
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se7en247
United States487 Posts
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TALegion
United States1187 Posts
On March 02 2011 05:27 ELA wrote: I wouldn't pick this guy personally, but I wonder why anyone hasn't mentioned Hitler? I mean, he was an evil evil man, but the fact that he pulled off what he did and that he managed to do it in the 20th century, is pretty impressive.. Be it despicable. Either way, Im pretty sure neither Alexander or Ghengis Khan were saints either, to say the least I was seriously considering him. Modern conquerors are so rare that he gets an added amount of interest to him. | ||
micronesia
United States24767 Posts
On March 02 2011 05:27 ELA wrote: I wouldn't pick this guy personally, but I wonder why anyone hasn't mentioned Hitler? On March 01 2011 17:18 gryffindor wrote: Hitler On March 02 2011 01:45 DorF wrote: hitler And no hitler will not get you banned... although to anyone saying hitler I'm assuming you mean "militarily and politically it's amazing what he managed to pull off" rather than "I'm a huge fan of his" since the latter certainly could get you banned. | ||
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Dr.Kill-Joy
United States627 Posts
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Blasterion
China10272 Posts
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Djagulingu
Germany3605 Posts
I won't tell you much. Look at my 2nd reference to learn more about him, if you already don't know of course. References: 1- Day[9] Daily Funday Monday: Contaminate THIS. 2- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmed_II | ||
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TALegion
United States1187 Posts
He didn't conquer a lot of land, but the manner in which he did it has a few interesting stories. | ||
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
I had doubts about Alexander the Great but it is probably fair to say he would hold onto power just like Cyrus did but he died too early for us to give a accurate judgment. Genghis actually did not have to control as much land as we think. Just because you rule all of the Sahara or Siberia does not mean you are great. Genghis ruled a lot of land, but a lot of it was empty because he killed so many people. However, I have to say that Genghis is my favorite. Even though he killed a lot of people, his ideas were so good and enlightened. Rather than placing rule of a captured city into the hands of a noble, he would get rid of the nobility since they had a habit of rebelling, and replace them with a man who seems capable even if he was a simple person. Though he did not have freedom of speech, he had freedom of religion. One unnecessary solved. And as a general, he was wonderful. Here, I am talking about strategy. Rather than hauling very large catapults to the enemy city, he would simply build them while besieging. If his prisoners had no use, he would dump them in the mote to make assaulting easier. When he was outnumbered, he had his men build 6 campfires to scare the enemy. And his men were efficient. He was able to set up camp in 15 minutes and travel 90 miles a day plus they were never low on food since they always had spare horses. | ||
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folke123
Sweden133 Posts
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BabyGiraldo
United States135 Posts
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Geomorph
United States12 Posts
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jinorazi
Korea (South)4948 Posts
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Maenander
Germany4926 Posts
On March 02 2011 04:08 luckybeni2 wrote: The "barbarian" label mostly came from what people in Europe were taught for many centuries. But a lot of it was propaganda and fear because they seemed to be superhuman destroying every armie they faced with ease. A barbarian can not create the biggest empire in history. It would simply be impossible to keep it together. They were one of the most free countries of their time with religious freedom and the possibility for scholars and merchants to move freely half around the world (were in most other countries in their period people were forced to stay were thelived) which led to a huge increase of knowledge and goods all around the world. Their capital was one of the biggest cities up untill that time and you had all major religions worshipping in the same part of the city. And that was during the time of the crusades which makes it an even bigger achievement. Steppe warriors are called barbarians or something close to it by nearly every sedentary civilization that encountered them for millenia. | ||
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