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Another one from the same artist: A view of Tollan-Teotihuacan, from the Tlajinga District.

yes, there is this comment about the picture: Hace un año me encargaron hacer una maqueta de una aldea nahua durante el auge del imperio mexica, como prueba de concepto. La idea era llevar la autenticidad histórica lo más lejos posible dentro de *limitaciones específicas*, en un estilo isométrico 2D con un enfoque pictórico. El teocalli del centro del asentamiento no es representativo de como se veria un templo de una aldea de esa envergadura, pero fue ilustrado de esa manera para darse una idea de como ser verian estructuras de talla mayor. Translation: A year ago I was commissioned to make a model of an Aztec/Nahua village during the height of the Mexica empire, as a proof of concept. The idea was to push historical authenticity as far as possible within *specific limitations*, in a 2D isometric style with a painterly approach. The teocalli at the center of the settlement is not representative of what a village temple of that size would look like, but it was illustrated that way to give an idea of what larger structures would look like. @wowgetoffyourcellphone it should interest you

The Victors and Vanquished DLC is coming for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition on March 14th 2024 This DLC contains 19 scenarios.

Exactly. Solving the audio is much easier.

People suggesting anything related to captcha should read this article: https://captcha.com/articles/audio-captcha.html Audio is the weakness of captcha.

Khronos Drives Industry Support for Expanded 3D Features with Vulkan Roadmap 2024 https://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-drives-industry-support-for-expanded-3d-features-with-vulkan-roadmap-2024

Yes there are several illustrations by Angus McBride depicting the round shield but those are unreliable. Angus McBride was not the most clever, he was a talented illustrator but he had no issue copying 19th century depictions to base his research. Examples: His inspirations: Angus McBride produced a lot of BS and was a major source of disinformation due to is carelessness with his references. 19th century depictions are unreliable in this case.

There is already one.

If chat-gpt can answer the question, yes the bots are smart enough now.

It is getting more and more difficult, with the development of AI. Captcha currently doesn't work anymore.

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Lorica hamata.

Antesignani means "those before the standard" or "those in front of the standard". Don't try to think to much about them, this is really a can of worms. It is not even certain if the Antesignani were a specialized troop or simply a label describing any men fighting in particular circonstances.

https://playground.com/ A friend tried the AI and it gives interesting result:

1st century AD, by Flavius Joseph: http://lukeuedasarson.com/Lanciarii.html

antesignanus not antisignanus sorry. Thats the singular of antesignanii Like you did with the Imperial Romans? Why not.

Evocatus is a good idea. To replace the velite, you could use the antisignanus.

Yes, the Marian reforms are mostly a myth. The changes were gradual, Marius only contributed to a few modest things. + + So it is something mostly popular in the wargame culture and in general public books.

I want more simple, colorful strategy games like Rising Lords that people will actually play with me By Jonathan Bolding Not every strategy game has to be gloomy and impenetrable. Rising Lords is just the sort of game I'm most vulnerable to: historical strategy with the simple setup of a tabletop wargame and the quality of life and large numbers that are only possible when a computer does the math and moves the pieces for you. What I especially like about it, though, is that it's colorful—which might be one reason I can actually get people to play it with me. Despite what the movies say, the medieval world was not a drab palette of mud and polished steel. It was colorful and wild and flamboyant and made of rich fabrics and painted armors, and Rising Lords gets that. The rich earth and bright gem tones give off the effect of an actual medieval tapestry or fresco painting, with fantastic designs inspired by things like the Lewis chessmen. Sadly, whatever blessing was given to the world was not given to the user interface, which is, while not without charm, either too sparse and lacking in explanation or cluttered with unimportant detail. As a strategy game fan, however, I am never stopped by an insufficient user interface. I am sometimes encouraged by it, perhaps to the detriment of myself and the genre, but it's worth bearing with it in the case of Rising Lords, which is just the kind of easily-to-digest strategy game I'd love to see more of. [...] Full article below https://www.pcgamer.com/i-want-more-simple-colorful-strategy-games-like-rising-lords-that-people-will-actually-play-with-me

Honestly, I have rarely seen a blog post written with such bad faith. In my opinion, the argumentation is of very low quality . First of all, the anecdote of the 20'000 slaves fleeing Decelea is not really appropriate to speak about the condition of the Helots in comparison with the Athenian slaves. Nothing suggest those 20'000 slaves would become helots and nothing suggest those slaves choose to become helots. Most of the helots are actually local populations from Laconia and I don't think there is evidence of new helots imported from prisoners. So the 20'000 slaves would not have been made helots and they probably knew it. Furthermore, as a contradictory anecdote, slaves flew the city of Chios to join the Athenians who were besieging the city and they helped them (Thuc. 8.40.2). So really, this sort of anecdotes doesn't tell anything about the conditions of the slaves. Those are very specific situations and totally unrelated to the everyday life of the slaves. H. P. Schrader also mentions that the Krypteia didn't exist during the Golden Age of Sparta, a claim that is dubious. Using Aristotle and Herodotus account's, Krypteia has probably an older origin. But anyway the whole argument of saying that the Krypteia didn't exist during the Golden Age of Sparta is simply dull, I don't see how it is used as a defense. This is Sparta but not the Golden Age Sparta so it doesn't count? Finally H. P. Schrader mentioned that Athens committed a massacre of the population of Melos, as a sort counter-example to excuse the massacre of the 2000 helots who helped Sparta during the war and who thought they would receive freedom, but instead were slaughtered by their masters. Just this argument gave me a very bad opinion of this person, this is rhetorically the bottom-pit of intelligence. This is pure bad faith and a desperate argument. The situation at Melos has nothing to do with the slaves or with anything related to slavery. This is indeed a massacre but which happened at the heart of the war when Sparta already committed massacres too, notably killing all the Athenians prisoners after a battle etc. I don't think Sparta was worst than Athens on the respect of the enemies and of the prisoners (with the exception of the Messenians and the helots). But this whole argument has nothing to do with the slave conditions which is the topic of her article. H. P. Schrader is simply making a deflective argument, this is basically her saying "see, Athens was very bad too!" while giving an example related to a different topic. In the end, a childish article.

Devereaux's comparison is interesting because it makes parallels with the current goals of indoctrinating childs in such ways. The purpose is not their efficiency in the battlefield but to maintain an oppressive system. I don't see it as something implausible as such systems existed in other societies. Devereaux writing style is rendering his argument as something bold and exaggerated but it has some truth in my opinion.

Did you see the following quotes?

The article starts like this: Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.E.—the subject of Zack Snyder’s 2006 film 300—has been particularly influential for figures ranging from Lord Byron rallying support for Greek independence from the Ottomans to Cold Warriors mythologizing the virtues of the “West” against the Soviet Union. It’s easy to ridicule such a simplistic view of history, and to point out that the Spartans might not have deserved their reputation as invincible warriors. But the blunders and brutalities of today’s champions of “Western civilization” follow Sparta’s example remarkably closely. This should give us pause. So it is not the last stand of the 300 but the idealization of Spartans and of the city-state Sparta that is criticized.