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Paul M. @Fireof1848

5 months ago

@lady_valor_07 Aoc

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@Saffron_Sniper1 Grab him and bring him back to 2026. The masses are ready. They just need a sign.

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5 months ago

@threenotes_jp Mobile suit Gundam

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@pinkychuwu I would slap Palpatine's face for you.

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@benonwine Francis Urquhart

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5 months ago

@Ihunanya_chi Allah is Ba'al, the thunder god. He was brought to mecca by Ezekiel or another person and when Mohammed told his followers to stop praying toward Jerusalem to Mecca it was the. Ba'al was accepted as Allah.

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@RomeInTheEast

5 months ago

Saying “NO!” to the Mongols could be a death sentence. The Mongol conqueror Hulegu wanted the Romans, the “Empire of Nicaea,” to submit to the him. In 1257 he sent the Romans an embassy demanding they bow to their rightful Mongol masters! Roman diplomatic genius was brought straight to work. In the words of Nicholas Morton: “Emperor Theodore II (Laskaris) responded to this deputation’s arrival with a shrewd piece of statecraft. When Hulegu’s representatives reached the border, rather than taking them straight to his court, Theodore ordered that they be brought to him by a long and meandering route in order to give a false impression of the size of the Empire of Nicaea. He also arranged for well-armed squadrons of soldiers to be stations along the road to give the impression that his empire could deploy huge numbers of troops.” Brilliant, I must say. The Emperor thus found an amicable solution to the Mongol issue, they were basically a nominal Mongol client-state, though the Romans probably presented this more as an alliance of equals in their telling of it. They were treated better than some other than some other client states. In 1260, a treaty was finally ratified which secured the Roman lands from any Mongol threat. Theodore Laskaris, followed by Michael Palaiologos, were able to secure from this alliance the restoration of a Roman/“Greek” Patriarch in Antioch. Already the Crusader-state had submitted to Mongol overlordship. That demonstrated that the Mongols valued and respected their Nicaean allies more than Antioch - imposing Roman demands on them. The Romans were using this alliance and nominal submission to great effect. Securing some concessions like that likely allowed them to feel like it was more of an alliance than submission, regardless of how the Mongols may have interpreted it. Both sides could take what they needed from it and present it favorably to their people. The Empire of Nicaea had truly impressive leadership and statecraft - I can only imagine what those Emperors could have done in earlier eras with a greater Empire to work with! They punched above their weight. Source - The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking in the Medieval Near East by Nicholas Morton

RomeInTheEast's tweet photo. Saying “NO!” to the Mongols could be a death sentence. The Mongol conqueror Hulegu wanted the Romans, the “Empire of Nicaea,” to submit to the him.

In 1257 he sent the Romans an embassy demanding they bow to their rightful Mongol masters!

Roman diplomatic genius was brought straight to work. In the words of Nicholas Morton: “Emperor Theodore II (Laskaris) responded to this deputation’s arrival with a shrewd piece of statecraft. When Hulegu’s representatives reached the border, rather than taking them straight to his court, Theodore ordered that they be brought to him by a long and meandering route in order to give a false impression of the size of the Empire of Nicaea. He also arranged for well-armed squadrons of soldiers to be stations along the road to give the impression that his empire could deploy huge numbers of troops.” Brilliant, I must say.

The Emperor thus found an amicable solution to the Mongol issue, they were basically a nominal Mongol client-state, though the Romans probably presented this more as an alliance of equals in their telling of it. They were treated better than some other than some other client states. In 1260, a treaty was finally ratified which secured the Roman lands from any Mongol threat. Theodore Laskaris, followed by Michael Palaiologos, were able to secure from this alliance the restoration of a Roman/“Greek” Patriarch in Antioch. Already the Crusader-state had submitted to Mongol overlordship.

That demonstrated that the Mongols valued and respected their Nicaean allies more than Antioch - imposing Roman demands on them. The Romans were using this alliance and nominal submission to great effect. Securing some concessions like that likely allowed them to feel like it was more of an alliance than submission, regardless of how the Mongols may have interpreted it. Both sides could take what they needed from it and present it favorably to their people.

The Empire of Nicaea had truly impressive leadership and statecraft - I can only imagine what those Emperors could have done in earlier eras with a greater Empire to work with! They punched above their weight.

Source - The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking in the Medieval Near East by Nicholas Morton

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Knight World

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5 months ago

I’ll try to leave a line from a poem for every follower who comments on this post.

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@POLITICOEurope ...will...not...rise...to...bait....

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6 months ago

@HYF98334204 None of them. 1 is a Japanese singer and will not settle down. 2 is a left over woman from china and is a girl boss. 3 is a Japanese former worker at a bar and all used up. 4 is a raging feminist south Korean who will never have children.

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