The empire Pizarro built was on the geographic scale of Alexander’s (check dimensions of viceroyalty of Peru), vastly more profitable, lasted longer, and he did it with 100 infantry and 60 caballeros
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
when you’re talking conquest on that scale it’s not about the k/d ratios anymore... the strategy, daring, and sheer will that calls for are hard to imagine
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Replying to @buellerevsky
Khaganates don’t impress me as much b/c it’s a bandwagon thing, not terribly interesting (any herders who could stop fighting each other and concentrate all forces on farmers can pull it off)
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
Caesar is great but he gets the same rap that Christian Europe does; he distinguished himself more in fighting his neighbors than in Gaul etc
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Replying to @buellerevsky
was it “single-minded”? i think he was ambivalent, his status was homines principes ancient world was killed by Goths, maybe that’s another reason you see Mongols as top-nomads (imagine killing all those Han and not even bringing down Tang culture...)
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Replying to @buellerevsky
one of my favorite paintingspic.twitter.com/vg9AL92IQu
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