cannons were invented sometime between the 11th and 12th century
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Well if we have to be very accurate it was the persians who said it to the greeks
Yeah.
Hungary used cannons since 1354.
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believing in a really stupid form of parralel development where i locate myself during the apocalypse wherever is most likely to end up having a class of transfeminine priestessess
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Bulgars were in series of conflicts with the byzantians since 680
Also the byzantian were here circa for three centuries. The most famous combats happened in 1526, and 1596 both are sixtinth century already.
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if i got into the byzantine empire i’d be here all day so I will restrain myself
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Explains why they lost to Bassarab I
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anyway chat how long do you think it’s going to be before someone ends up recreating the Janissaries again
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what if we kidnapped children and raised them from birth into a highly close-knit unit of dedicated soldiers and had them act as the royal guard. This will not go wrong
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elon musk initiates strict levies upon Nebraska, taking a tithe of various children he raises from birth to be Le Epic Guard. What happens next will not shock you!
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This is a very big subject in bulgarian literature. Families had to pay a “blood tax”, they were forced to choose to give up one child to be enslaved and become a janissary
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We should revive the idea of gun monks.
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oh, i am well aware of the historical context here. the Ottoman Empire is studied quite a lot in discussions of imperialism due to its challenging of simplistic models necessitating quite a lot of consideration. it’s a great way to teach students both the standard models of imperialism and challenges to them
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When it’s the 21th century American civil war and Elon Musk weaponises extremly bright and quick-intermittence flashing Xs against the partisans
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to be clear, the Janissary Guard did not only recruit via devshrime, and the frequency of this decreased as the centuries went on.
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however. they did very quickly become a fucking massive problem for the Ottoman Empire as they became an extremely dangerous organ within politics, much like the Praetorian Guard of the Roman Empire.
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there’s one thing you can say for the janissaries, and that’s that they didn’t kill the person they were supposed to be guarding quite as often as the praetorians did
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I’m wondering how it all came down when Turkey had a revolutionary pro-republican party
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Okay followup question
Who put you in charge
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