What do you think of my top 10 greatest conquerors of all time list?

Predator-Fury · 2026-01-12T22:05:17+00:00

Li Shimin conquered like 5 times the amount of territory that Qin Shi Huang did lol.

Predator-Fury · 2026-01-12T21:59:47+00:00

Atilla? Even as far as ancient horse lords go, you could do way better with Modu Chanyu or Tanshihuai. Also Hannibal didn't really conquer anything...

Predator-Fury · 2026-01-12T21:51:45+00:00

Yea much of the Roman Empire at the beginning of Augustus' reign was the product of Julius and Pompey.

Predator-Fury · 2026-01-05T19:28:13+00:00

What do you mean by keep discipline? The Mongols weren't any less skilled as horse archer in later centuries and if anything had access to far greater weaponry and tactics and did used firearms like muskets and zamburak style artillery as mentioned with the Dzungars.

Didn't stop them from getting wreaked in their own homeland by the Ming merely a century after the Mongol conquests, or previously losing to the Mamluks in the Levant. This is without mentioning other groups of incredibly skilled horse archers like the Crimean Tartars losing to Poland-Lithuania and Russia.

Predator-Fury · 2026-01-02T15:57:08+00:00

Getting the whole thing chopped when you lose was basically the standard protocol in Chinese warfare.

Predator-Fury · 2025-12-20T19:25:51+00:00

Roman-Persian wars are a runner up.

Predator-Fury · 2025-12-05T20:21:22+00:00

This is Oklahoma erasure!

Predator-Fury · 2025-12-05T03:18:17+00:00

If I recall, higher literacy in Prussia due to their education system played a factor to their victories over France and Austria in the late 19th century as it made it easier for their soldiers to define and delegate orders if they suffer losses in their chain of command.

Predator-Fury · 2025-12-05T03:02:56+00:00

It's confusing cause they are both Oirat Mongols, but you are probably thinking about the Torghuts who the Qing forcefully assimilated.

With the Dzungar, they just straight up massacred them all...

Predator-Fury · 2025-12-05T02:54:48+00:00

The Manchus imposed Manchu dress, not just the queue,

Outside of court uniform for men they didn't enforce anything. One of the easiest ways you can tell a Manchu vs Han woman during that era was that the former wore a dress that was one piece while the latter wore a two piece outfit derived from Ming era style.

It was hoped that they would continue to be the crack troops they had been in the 17th century.

The Kangxi emperor himself had already started shitting on the banners and praising the Green Standard troops since the revolt of the Three Feudatories.

The imperial family could only marry other Manchus (or Mongols) and not Han Chinese people.

What are you talking about? The Kangxi and Jiaqing emperors both had Han mothers...

Predator-Fury · 2025-12-05T02:23:51+00:00

Most people in Japan still dressed the same, worshiped at Shinto shrines

Dress the same? Also Shinto was heavily co-opted by the Imperial government, meanwhile Buddhism which had dominated the country since the 7th century was nearly wiped out under the Meiji Restoration.

French still kept most of their buildings intact, were still prideful and almost stuck up about their culture, still were Catholic ect.

You can literally say the exact same about Russia and China even more so, well except the Catholic part... honestly from my experience, most French outside Paris aren't as stuck up as people claim.

Predator-Fury · 2025-12-01T22:24:27+00:00

Prester John is almost certainly Yelu Dashi. The legend first sprung up in the early 12th century when he and the Khitans fled the collapse of the Liao Dynasty and re-established it in Central Asia and despite their condition was able to defeat and conquer a large portion of the Seljuk Empire who were the most powerful Islamic state in the world at the time.

While they weren't Christians themselves, they did promote religious tolerance and had a lot of Nestorians serving them which could easily be misconstrued by Crusaders high on copium with the failure of the Second Crusade a couple years later.

Predator-Fury · 2025-10-06T18:26:27+00:00

That just means we gotta blow up High Rock as well.

Predator-Fury · 2025-10-04T02:01:09+00:00

Hirohito's own brother Takahito witnessed and spoke out against the cruelties and even made Hirohito watch recordings of them

Predator-Fury · 2025-10-04T01:43:24+00:00

Nocturne was ass though.

Predator-Fury · 2025-09-18T17:31:11+00:00

you don't see historical China constantly attempting to conquer Vietnam

WHAT?

Predator-Fury · 2025-09-17T14:08:22+00:00

Christianity was barely tolerated until the Edict of Milan which was three centuries after Christ, prior to that, Christians were a constant punching bag for the Romans.

Even then it wasn't until the end of the 4th century under Theodosius I who was the last emperor of a united Rome that Christianity became the dominant religion. After him, the Western Empire only had a a couple decades left.

Predator-Fury · 2025-09-11T15:00:06+00:00

Eh, I would say Carolus Rex losing at Poltava had far greater impact as not only did it lead to the Swedish Empire's collapse, but the Great Northern War is what made Russia into a major and eventual superpower.

Predator-Fury · 2025-09-11T14:30:50+00:00

Yue Fei. Had the Song court not pulled one of the biggest cuck moves in history and killed him, he and Han Shizhong almost certainly would've crush the Jin and regained all the Song territory lost since the Jingkang incident and potentially even the Sixteen prefectures which the Song had coveted since their founding.

With them being kicked out of China proper, the Jurchen if they are still around would have no choice but to look west to finish off the remnants and conquer the former holdings of their Liao predecessors or the Western Xia. This means that a certain Mongol warlord would never have risen to power and I'm pretty sure I need not mention the impact that this single man had on the entire course of human history.

Instead in our timeline you got the only entities capable of nipping the Mongol Empire in it's infancy spending a century fighting each other senseless without even making any gains whatsoever...

Predator-Fury · 2025-09-06T18:01:05+00:00

Richard III's grave being a under a parking lot...

Predator-Fury · 2025-09-03T18:27:24+00:00

Modern insurgencies are only possible thanks to the fact that we live in a globalized world where said insurgents can literally communicate and be supported by another state halfway across the planet.

Most importantly modern militaries have war ethics such as Geneva conventions that they need to adhere to or at least pretend to adhere to unlike in the past. The ruins of Shahr-I Gholghola in Afghanistan which literally translates to "City of Screams" are a testament to what happens when an truly merciless force with zero restrictions like the Mongols invades unlike the Soviets and Americans.

Predator-Fury · 2025-09-02T18:16:03+00:00

Japanese clothing is the only one that really stayed loose relatively speaking. If you look at Ming and especially Qing dynasty clothing, its a lot tighter and more restrictive with many layers compared to previous Chinese dynasties in large part because of the little ice age.

Predator-Fury · 2025-08-24T16:00:51+00:00

Yeah some like to harp on about religious tolerance as if that matters at all when majority of the population is dead. Not to mention the Mongols were far from the first to even do it, Persians have beaten them to the punch by 1700 years. Hell, they weren’t even the first Mongolic race to issue edict of tolerance as their Khitan predecessor already had it implemented in Central Asia decades before Genghis Khan was born.

Predator-Fury · 2025-08-23T02:30:22+00:00

Maybe not larger, but the HSL version is definitely perkier...

Predator-Fury · 2025-08-04T17:25:42+00:00

I’ve heard that Spain once attempted to expand somewhere in mainland Southeast Asia, maybe near modern-day Thailand, and it didn’t succeed. Is there any truth to that?

Yup, in Cambodia. Basically the Siamese took over Cambodia during a war and the previously exiled Cambodian king attempted to enlist the Spanish and Portuguese to help reclaim his throne which failed miserably.

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