What’s going on over there

Scandinavian vikings hearing of Byzantine wars:

Good book recs on Eastern Roman Empire?

Heroizing those traitorous Greeks was the greatest crime of the Americans

Constantinople held, so that Europe could rise

In fairness most of those men were men who had trained their entire lives for war and had massive amounts of military equipment. It would be like losing 700 tanks in modern day.

In a way the Eastern Roman Empire was a lot like Ming China. Only that the Manchu empeors of China were never that interested in culturally converting the entirity of Han China into steppe nomads, but the Ottoman Turks very much were.

My boy Booby G.

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