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    Quote Originally Posted by YetiFatMan View Post
    21. Asking a nation/tribe to trade with yours was reason enough to for them to declare war.
    LOL, so true!

    22. You can be the richest empire for controlling only baghdad with an average 10k income a turn.

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    23.BC team must be fans of Kingdom of Heaven for chosing all those stills and using the Jerusalem banner from the movie.

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    24. The kingdom of Jerusalem was made up of many different nationalities, though their generals were always French.

    25. There was an insane Mongolian running around the battlefield during a battle involving the Kingdom of Jerusalem, shouting things like 'we have lost half of our men!', and 'the enemy general lies slain, warlord'.
    A new mobile phone tower went up in a town in the USA, and the local newspaper asked a number of people what they thought of it. Some said they noticed their cellphone reception was better. Some said they noticed the tower was affecting their health.

    A local administrator was asked to comment. He nodded sagely, and said simply: "Wow. And think about how much more pronounced these effects will be once the tower is actually operational."

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    24. The kingdom of Jerusalem was made up of many different nationalities, though their generals were always French.
    There were many nationalities, but from what I understand of history the kingdom of jerusalem was kinda like the colonies of imperialist Europe later in history, in that a small group of foreigners (franks here) ruled over the native peoples. There were probably no Muslim, orthodox, or Jewish generals....

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    in that a small group of foreigners (franks here) ruled over the native peoples.
    They werent a small group of people large cities were completely populated by these "Franks".

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    Hmm I didn't know that. How would that be possible? When the Crusaders arrived in the holy land there were already peoples living there, I don't see how Europeans could have come to make up a majority in any one settlement.....

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    sorry to derail but a couple of people have suggested that the koj can steamroll the ayyubids... all I have ever seen is the ayyubids doing this to them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kschneides View Post
    Hmm I didn't know that. How would that be possible? When the Crusaders arrived in the holy land there were already peoples living there, I don't see how Europeans could have come to make up a majority in any one settlement.....
    "Franks" was the name of all the european people for the muslims.
    There were already some christs there and the crusaders killed many muslims and jews, they eaven killed some christs too. Many muslims converted to christianity and many pilgrims from europe also started a new life there.

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    26 Cengiz Khan thought he was send by God on a duty saying:
    I am the punishment of God... If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
    "A very meaningful quote of a outstandingly wise saying from a historicly boundless important person"

    Famously, a curse has been attached to opening Timur's tomb. In the year of Timur's death, a sign was carved in Timur's tomb warning that whoever would dare disturb the tomb would bring demons of war onto his land. Gerasimov's expedition opened the tomb on June 19, 1941. Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany, began three days later on June 22, 1941. Shortly after Timur's skeleton and that of Ulugh Beg, his grandson, were reinterred with full Islamic burial rites in 1942, the Germans surrendered at Stalingrad.

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    27 There were diffenert kinds of turkish empire
    28 kingdom of makuria , didnt know abot it
    "Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do"
    why stay in a fictional world when there is a real one right out the door?

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    29. India is an invading country, spreading the Hindu religions from India to Baghdad and down southward into Egypt. Elephants soon re-populated Mesopotamia as they arrive by the shiploads stocked for war against the Muslim infidels.
    30. The only black people in the world were ruled by Samual L Jackson and other various famous black people.
    31. Elephants are slain by one spear to the back of the leg.
    32. The mongols are defeated through diplomacy with the Eastern Roman Empire causing them abandon their world conquest and sit en masse on the edge of the Persian borders.
    33. All Imam's regardless of their age, have beards.

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    34. Byzantines have a fetish for controlling siwa at all costs

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    oh and 35. The great Selijuks are the biggest joke of a nation on the planet

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rabbit on crack View Post
    oh and 35. The great Selijuks are the biggest joke of a nation on the planet
    Why is that? o.O

    36. The Maharajas defend their cities on elephants....in the cities

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    Aaah. And 37. The seljuk Generals seem to hate their country...:S

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    Quote Originally Posted by CannabisMaximus View Post
    33. All Imam's regardless of their age, have beards.
    Haha! A must!

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    Quote Originally Posted by nikolo1 View Post
    "Franks" was the name of all the european people for the muslims.
    There were already some christs there and the crusaders killed many muslims and jews, they eaven killed some christs too. Many muslims converted to christianity and many pilgrims from europe also started a new life there.
    In fact, the word 'foreigner' comes from Frank.
    FREE THE NIPPLE!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nur ad-Din View Post
    Why is that? o.O
    In my games they never expand past a few provinces, only to be warred on by Georgia, Khwarezem and the Abbassids. Usually by 1210 or so the Selijuks are gone and the most powerful factions are it's conquerers

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    that Europe isn't the center of the Earth!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Visarion View Post
    that Europe isn't the center of the Earth!
    correct!

    www.twcenter.net <--- thats the center of the world!

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