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[_] Anon 2223959
>> [_] Anon 2223971 >The Caliphate >All Iberian peninsula under his rule >All wat?
>> [_] Anon 2223977 >># Are u mayyad? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate#U mayyads.2C_7th.E2.80.938th_centuries
>> [_] Anon 2223982 >># It´s a very cursory view on borders and there are tons of inaccuracies. Sometimes it shows control of an area no matter how short, sometimes it doesn´t. Also this is largely at times where there were no "real" borders so i wouldn´t put too much thought into it.
>> [_] Anon 2223989 >># I'm Spanish and I know what I'm talking Look: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co mmons/e/e7/Al-Andalus732.jpg The north of the Iberian Peninsula was under the power of the Asturian
>> [_] Anon 2223995 daaaamn. The mongols owned the entire fucking continent at one point. If the khan hadn't died and had to be buried in his home town we'd all be speaking mongolian.
>> [_] Anon 2223999 >># yeah if you checked my link you'd see that the north isn't under caliph rule too. the flash is just slightly wrong
>> [_] Anon 2224002 >># No we wouldn´t. Subotai would have kicked our shit in however.
>> [_] Anon 2224005 >># Actually, I don't think the mongols forced the people they conquered to change their language. Actually, they pretty much let the territories under their control just do their own thing. They even open a new district in their capitol to act as an embassy and spread culture. That's not ignoring the whole "make piles of baby skulls and pour silver in people's ears for fear factor" thing, but besides that they were pretty cool dudes.
>> [_] Anon 2224010 >># They may have given freedom of language and religion but they wanted total control, whenever they conquered a city they put one of their own as the ruler.
>> [_] Anon 2224012 >># Very true. I still like the whole embassy thing, though.
>> [_] John Moses Browning 2224018 >After the the ottoman empire nobody touched turkey Based Mustafa Kemal
>> [_] Anon 2224027 >># Yeah well if you lose 3/4 of your empire there is nothing much left, WW1 left Turkey in rubble. If Germany had convinced Turkey to join their side again in WW2, Turkey would probably not exist now.
>> [_] Anon 2224044 >no British Empire wut da fook m8?
>> [_] Anon 2224052 >># it's called imperial history of the middle east
>> [_] Anon 2224053 So... the point of this video was to bitch about Israel?
>> [_] Anon 2224077 >># >whenever they conquered a city they put one of their own as the ruler. because that's how conquest works, you dumb nigger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timurlane#L egacy
>> [_] Anon 2224088 WHERE IS MUH ARCHE SELEUKIA? MUH SELEUCIDS FUCK PONTUS