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Ottoman Empire mid of XIX century. Baghdad Moar here

In second half of XIX century British Empire begin "Big Game" - fight for power in Central Asia and Middle East region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game For win in this Cold war of XIX century Brits decide reshape Muslim society and transform whole Islam into tool of colonial politics. They take control over Muslim religious school's and replace teachers who belongs by Traditional branches of Islam by members of marginal extremists sects. It's cause extreme changes in Religion, they just create Islamic version of Protestantism. Main difference of Protestantism from other religions must be explained. In ancient times pagan priest's often has been castrated, they must belongs for God,instead of world of humans, it''s some sort of fight against human nature, all these practices of an Asceticism is just attempt to stop being humans. In later times in Christianity castration of priests has been replaced by symbolic castration - Celibacy, but whole society stay oriented to human nature ( just google eroticism in Medieval times if you want known more ). But when Puritanism appeared all these non-natural limitations of ascetic priests life has been shared to whole society. Obviously this is cause non-stop wars, rebellions... and give to British Empire Hegemony in the World. In last half of XIX century in Central Asia similar things are begin with "help" of Europeans. Everyone begin wear Burqa's here, while in times before this only aristocrats wear this dress. Oppression, limitations to society from side Religion and religious hate extremely increased. But though Europeans make so significant efforts for this, they yet can't successfully ended this "project". Central Asia is only periphery of Islamic civilization, and center as Ottoman Empire is and other periphery - North Africa stay mostly untouched by such European influence. North Africa before WW1. \

As you can notice in my previous posts Muslim women don't hide own faces and bodies in the past. When this strange "tradition" are appeared? First Muslim who hide own face is... Muhammad. In Islamic art he always pictured with veiled face in Lovecraftian style. This covering hide his unearthly celestial nature. His wifes has same veils also, by same reason... they all just not humans more. Wifes of Muhammad are first and exclusive Muslim "women" who hide own bodies, its their "privilege". Nobody else risked dressed as Prophet. Until XVII century. In XVII century Aristocrats of Ottoman Empire and Persia (here appeared Burqa) begin hide faces in Prophet-style. It's nothing more than arrogance of these posers, they pretend be equal to Muhammad and his family... and mix this with very hedonistic/salacious behavior. Ottoman Aristocratic girls from first half of XIX century. Meanwhile ordinary Muslim women of Empire dressed as this and swim naked. In other words until second half of XIX century Muslim societies stay very free-minded and cool. But after this sh**t happened. And this sh**t is European colonialism.

DDR forces fought in Vietnam ? I'm sure you have something ready for when people say 'No, they literally didn't', so lets hear it. Can find this only in Deutsch (or Russian) text's "China, Osteuropa und der Vietnam-Krieg aus der Sicht der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik" von Joachim Schröter (Auszug aus einem Vortrag auf einem wissenschaftliche Seminar vom 24. bis 26.03.2004 in Peking; mit freundlicher Genehmigung; s.a. verband-fuer-internationale-politik.info) US lost in this war ~4100 warplanes and 5100 helicopters. I think NPA make quite good revenge ( during WW2 allied bombings of German cities cause 300 000 - 600 000 civilian deaths).

The Fall of the Wall = Fall of True Germany. Osties, DDR are descendants of Prussia and Prussia is true creators of German Empire. It's so easy to note by comparing of DDR military forces (who beat US arses in Vietnam war ) and pathetic Bundeswehr who even can't protect homeland in case of war. http://youtu.be/oldMTT_4k4s It's Ostalgie thread now

Aliens. They among us. They are hungry. Their power unstoppable. They live someday in these places, everyone even forgot about them, but... they decide return to these lands again. And you nothing more than prey to them. Yeah, it's really bad news to you, pal. http://youtu.be/VUufBvB2zEs They suddenly appeared in land of their ancient tombs, and local 18000-strong army flee without fight. Smart movie, at least they save own lives. All what we can do its only establish a quarantine zone in area of their appearance. Some idiots from governments decide this is betrayal and replace staff in HQ by more loyal and much stupid people. They decide we can fight against aliens. Meanwhile lords from Eastern provinces begin insurgency against metropoly. They say aliens protect them and central government has no another choice than give independence to them. But our idiots send all troops to suppress rebellion instead. Initially our troops are victorious and almost win these pathetic rebels.... but rebels don't lie when say what aliens promise protection to them. In one moment all our 70 000 strong army... just disappeared. Nobody even notice these aliens (in Crimea we have at least small amount of videos with them ). It's so scary, it's like old sci-fi horror movies, where alien creature devour ship's crew, but even scariest. Aliens in reality never seen and has been devoured not ten humans but 70 000 instead... I just don't known how we can live on...

http://youtu.be/U_gYNS-a5Hc

Sultanate of Rum - Seljuk Empire. Dominance of Turkic culture in Islam. Ruins of capital. Palace Seljuk's collect ancient art. Own art of Seljuk's

Continue about heritage of Islam. Abbasid Caliphate - strong influence of Iranian, Central Asian and Turkic culture to Muslims

Arabs after death of Muhammad. True old-school Islam. Umayyad Caliphate. Khirbat al-Majfar castle. Muslim girls Muslim guys Khaliph castle Qusayr ‘Amra As we can see here Arabic culture don't change so much after appearance of Islam. This is explain why original Islam spreaded so fast and many people prefer Islam ( liberal, sexy, oriented to human nature progressive religion) and rulership of Arabs instead of tyrannical Byzantine rulership.

continue of pre-Islamic Arabia. Moar here

Kingdom of Saba (9th century BCE – 275 CE) Matriarchy, women played important role here(Queen of Sheba, lots of priestesses and goddesses). Symbols of Islam much more ancient than Islam. Though this is not surprising, even main muslim shrine IRL is ancient temple of Arabic goddess, where muslims secretly worship erm... something.

Wait what? like Putin is/was not comunist? So KGB was imperialist agency, i see... Wait what? like G. Washington is/was not royalist? So British Army was revolutionary agency, i see...

Pre-Islamic Arabia now. Qaryat Al-Faw in Saudi Arabia 4th century B.C.E - 4th century C.E Nabatean kingdom 168 BCE–106 CE

Let's talk about how some creators use such Cultural stuff for inspiration. It's mostly old-school examples. J.R.R. Tolkien use Central Asian, Persian and Russian\Slavic heritage ( for example legends about Turanian 7-walled great capital Kangha, names and other cultural things ) for Gondor. Robert E. Howard use Heritage of Sassanid Empire, Black sea and North Caucasian regions for Conan. H. P. Lovecraft use Phoenician, Arabic, Russian and Tibetan cultural heritage in his works... etc Though in present time creators mostly avoid do this, society just don't like any thing what can ruin their believe in "Western way of life" or "Western exceptionalness" and "European superiority". In result today we have strange situation when people's dreams are much poorer and much primitive than rich cultural heritage of Humanity in real world. On periphery of Western world situation with culture is better and here we has this: http://www.bedetheque.com/serie-5910-BD-Empereur-Ocean.html http://www.bedetheque.com/serie-12227-BD-Danse-du-temps.html instead of this ( Westlings instead of Persians, western consumers do want see yourself everywhere, its some sort of cultural narcissisms). From Internets. It's to long to explain and this information so helpless for anyone who cant into Russian language anyway (Russian scientists traditionally don't translate own works to other languages and this knowledge actually don't needed for globalized and standardized western world, where all cultures must die and be replaced by anti-culture of average consumers from Marketeers dreams, no reasons for translations exists).

Ukrwanda. Is Hohlutu land. No Rutsi! Message to the Western artists. Portraying of modern Russia ( Putin for example ) with Soviet symbols is same way as portray of G. Washington as British patriot (and this pic show how this is stupid looks like).

Though Mongols are most true "nomads" ever (they has best mobility in the world and they can produce all goods what they needed in fields, cities not necessary for them), they build cities and other structures too. XIII-XIV century Capital of Mongolian Empire. Meanwhile biggest European city from same time looks much smaller than city of "nomadic" Mongols. Mongolian Empire build network of roads with Caravanserais also. This play extreme role in progress of backward Europe, and explain why Europeans became of best allies of Mongol Empire and their descendants (as Golden Horde is). XIV-XV centuries - dark ages of Mongolia because of unsucessful wars against China. Everything has been destroyed. Plan of small Mongolian settlement Evolution of Yurt Types of mobile Mongolian houses XVI-XVII centuries - Mongolian Renaissance. XVIII-XX centuries Post-Renaissance.

Works of modern Mongolian artist Zayasaikhan Sambuu.

Manchu people and Empire of the Great Qing (XV – XIX centuries).

Liao empire (Mongolia IX-XI century) Jurchen people (Golden Empire or Jin dynasty ) XI-XIII century Dzungar Khanate XVII century Central Asia ( XV - XVII century)

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Our real knowledge about past of humanity is very small. Trusted sources begin only from The Renaissance time. Even in this case we can say something about some culture only if this culture not die completely during conquests and disasters. Winner's often totally destroy all evidences of defeated people and obviously don't say truth about own enemy in chronicles, white spots in history Africa and America before European conquest prove it. Another example is Roman Empire. On huge territory of Empire archaeologist find only around 300 Roman helmets. 300 artefacts covering around 1000 years of Roman existence in whole mediterranean region. In other words we IRL known nothing about them, waves of invasions erase all evidences of their presence, all what we have is pathetic small fragments of Roman material culture and huge amount of Eurocentric fantasy cool stories from XV-XIX centuries. Just throw away all your books about Romans, 99% of their content is lie. Same story (even worse) about Khazar khaganate. All what we known - they have mixed populace (Turkic, Slavs, Alans, other North Caucasians, Bulgars), they're stop expansion of Islam to the North, as all Turkic people they use fortresses for expansion, They control part of Silk Road, they probably are founders of Kiev and Rus statehood (Kievan Rus probably is just their rebelled province), Caucasian national costumes are descendants of Khazarian costumes, the first used early sabres in Europe. It's all, Kievan Rus conquer them, destroy their cities, massacre populace, after this serial waves of Cumans, Mongols and other invaders erase almost all evidences of Khazarian existence. Reconstructions of their fortresses. Their costumes women men warriors Tombstones plumbing Coin Early sabre (replica)

Common girls in Russia Migrated from Russia Miss Murica 2014! Murica is astonishing land. Even Russian girls looks fugly here (though they stay most beautiful girls in Murica anyway)! American girls in 10s 20s. 30s 40s 50s Murican conquest of US it's most sad event in history, i'm just cry.