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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
What? Tammerlane mean anything to you?
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Was not really Mongol. And the Turks did shake that defeat off.
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Originally Posted by ArmchairGeneral
Good gosh, let's not speculate. That's just too scary. Romans with gunpowder? We'd probably still be speaking Latin
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Not really. When gunpowder came along, people did not get the idea that "we should take a hollow metal tube which is open at one end, put a bag of black powder and a metal ball in it, and then set it off with a match", immdietly after gunpowder was invented. And in battles they were used either as granades (as a Ayn Jalut in 1260) or to launch arrows. It was many centuries before the Chinese and the Arabs came up with a workable cannon.
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Originally Posted by leibstandarte10
The Romans used cavalry, but usually depended almost solely on the infantry to win battles. Up against heavier Parthian cavalry, Roman horsemen usually couldn't compete.
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Please, they captured Ctesiphon, 5 times, in 116 AD, 165 AD, 198 AD, 250 AD, 295 AD, as well as in 627 AD, (Herculius)
This is based on another myth;
Romans could not fight in the desert. Yeah, right, they conqured such places as Egypt, Libiya, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan and North West Saudia Arabia.