>334 BC: Alexander the Great, age 18, invades the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire.
>221 BC: Hannibal Barca, age 26, made commander-in-chief of Carthaginian Army. Begins invasion of Rome in the Second Punic War. He is eventually defeated by Scipio Africanus, who was made Proconsul of Rome at the age of 25.
>42 BC: Gaius Octavian, age 19, joins forces with Mark Anthony and Marcus Lepidus to form the 2nd Triumvirate, commanding a coalition army of 100,00 men. He eventually rises to become Augustus Caesar.
>616 AD: Li Shimin, age 18, is made the Duke of Dunhuang and participates in the rebellion against the Sui Dynasty. Later rises to the throne as Emperor Tang Taizong.
>768 AD: Charlemagne, age 24, becomes King of the Franks. He unites much of Western Europe and is later crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor.
>1186: Temujin, age 24, is elected Khan of the Mongols, having fought in battles since 16. He eventually assumes the title of Genghis Khan.
>1429: Joan of Arc, age 17, leads the attack of Les Tourelles and begins a year-long campaign against the English in France.
>1453: Sultan Mehmet II, age 21, conquers Constantinople, 2 years after ascending the Ottoman throne.
>1495: Babur, age 12, ascends the throne of Fergana, and conquers Samarkand 2 years later. Eventually conquers North India and establishes the Mughal Dynasty.
>1561: Tokugawa Ieyasu, age 17, seizes control of the Imagawa clan and allies with Oda Nobunaga, eventually becoming the first Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
>1793: Napoleon Bonaparte, age 24, is made general and commander of the Army of Italy. His victories in Italy and Austria gave him the political power to become the First Emperor of the French.
Wtf are doing with our lives? How is this possible?
People were lucky to live past 40yrs old back then.
Brayden Bailey
Doing your mother
Levi Barnes
Are you saying you'll do something amazing by 40 since you'll live to be ~80 something?
Daniel Parker
well it kind of helps that they were born in a position of power to be able to accomplish all that
Bentley Reed
Not me, but I'm sure someone will.
Robert Russell
Civilized human history is not a collection of spectacular men rising through the ranks. It is a collection of the random individuals thrown into the spotlight and only the successful are remembered. It has nothing to do with ambition, talent, or any combination more than any other man. It is simply luck that the men whom have been spotted into said roles were competent enough to succeed at said roles.
>Alexander the Great literally given everything by his father and his only accomplishment was beating one of the most retarded empires to exist before shortly dying and losing everything
>Hannibal Barca made a commander because he was born into nobility and won some battles against an enemy whose only strategy was make a big blob and attack the enemy before realizing that didnt work and stomped him after using actual tactics
>Gaius Octavian adopted by caesar and his only "feat" was winning an unlosable civil war
>Charlemagne yes he united western europe by already owning half of europe when he was born, his only "accomplishment" was beating two other kingdoms that had no chance against him
>Joan of Arc glorified cheerleader
>Mehmet II he took over the city of a dead empire with its only territory being 1 city with an army 20x bigger than them wooh
>Napoleon Bonaparte only person on your shit list thats actually good
dont really care about gook or chink history so i didnt bother with them
well explain how im wrong then le meme images dont really help you
Brody Lopez
Most of us arent high nobility or in possession of a magic sword.
>he took over the city of a dead empire with its only territory being 1 city with an army 20x bigger than them wooh Still an accomplishment given muslim army track records
Michael Brooks
Bump
Liam Clark
Don't forget, Mehmet II only breached the walls because he had Hungarian-made cannons manned by renegade Hungarians.
Luis Adams
remove this degenerate shit from the face of my waifu right this instant.
>Tokugawa Ieyasu, age 17, seizes control of the Imagawa clan and allies with Oda Nobunaga, eventually becoming the first Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate. >eventually >eventually means 39 years later
Gavin Martinez
*sniff*
Sebastian Carter
Literally living a better life then any of them by smoking weed in my parents basement. I'd way rather do that then any of the shit that those people did. Although I am much older then any of the ages you used in your examples.
Juan Morgan
Ok, and that's great and all, but not a single one of them can shitpost on Jow Forums.
Everyone in history: 0 Us: 1
Zachary Russell
This is just a list of historical trustfund babies, and the accomplishments attributed to them as individuals are in most cases just the products of social forces at the time.
The average NEET Wizard like myself has seen more of the world, of space, of sexuality, of history than any of those people.
Did Alexander the Great ever get to spend his downtime watching comfy videos of the ISS like this? youtube.com/watch?v=TA8LqcnGsl8
Nicholas Stewart
Quick question, retard. If Augustus’s only accomplishment was an “unlosable” Civil war, how was he able to reign for such a huge amount of time with absolute power? I mean, both Gracchus brothers, Sulla, and Caesar all were in the same position Augustus was after the civil war at one point, so why did Augustus establish an empire that lasted a millennium, while the others were killed before they could accomplish anything else of note? How is it that you glorify Napoleon (who failed miserably not once, but twice before living out his life exiled and disgraced), while belittling Augustus? He reigned for decades and decades in a position the Julius fucking Caesar had been unable to occupy for more than a few years. >hurt durr if it didn’t happen on a battlefield it doesn’t count
Carter Baker
All of them had healthy cultures in which they learned to thrive. Our culture has been (((decimated))) and now no one knows which way’s up. It takes many of us half our lives to unlearn all the false bullshit we’d been fed for the first half.
Thats how important culture is. We *must* win the culture war if we are to survive as a people.
Joseph Lewis
didn't augustus get cucked by his late wife?
Chase Thomas
>Julius Caesar is stabbed in the back by politicians >Augustus is stabbed in the back by a roasty They were the Jow Forumsacks of their day
Well not Genghis, actually. He was poorer then poor, he was a slave at one point. He's basically the most hardcore revolutionary in human history. He was poor among a people that themselves were all poor, and treated as an open-air slave pen by the neighboring regions. He united them and struck back at their oppressors, and basically won out many battles simply because he would siege a city, they would try to wait him out, but his people were used to living in shittier conditions then the land around a city so it was literally impossible to wait them out, all they needed was a bit of grass and water for their animals, that's all they ever had on the steppes of Mongolia anyways. Genghis actually died an old man in his battle yurt at a war encampment, likely due to injuries suffered in combat. he was easily the richest man on the planet at the time, one of if not the richest men in human history, and he kept exactly none of the gold for himself, he cared nothing for wealth, he had thousands of forts and castles at the time that he died in his tent. He lived to fucking punish the nobles, he was absolutely not a trust fund baby. You should read up on him it's pretty interesting I suggest starting with Jack Weatherford's books.
Jason Hall
kind of easy to do that once all of your enemies are dead after winning an unlosable civil war, the rest of his reign was him sitting on his ass doing meme reforms like the praetorian guard
wow you found 11 people in 2000 years of human history. 99.9% of people lived utterly meaningless lives aside from growing food.
Zachary Gonzalez
People would marry at 13 and die by 30 Back then
Eli Rivera
There wasn't an oppressive globalist techno deep state covering a fully mapped out world, making consumerist video gaming wage slaves out of us. People back then had strong spiritual and military traditions, a sense of honor, courage, and a faustian drive for adventure and conquest.
Brody Cooper
well im playing video games and waking up every day thinking about killing myself im 27 what you know about that?
>How is this possible? They came from long lines of successful fathers, or were adopted by men that came from long lines of success and could give them resources and the training they needed.
Robert Morales
>glorified cheerleader Hello Albion
Luke Lewis
>Wtf are doing not proof reading i suppose.
Adam Anderson
This. Nappy is the only one who went from essentially nothing to the highest possible station, and he didn't have everything handed to him on a silver platter.
Ayden James
They were just spoiled royals sitting behind their trops and taking all the credits from their soldiers, generals and advisors for themselves. Any king/emperor that had ever fought in a battle was killed right away for being LARPer.
Brayden Ross
They were absolutely outnumbered by plebs such as I. If I make a small contribution, even if that is to 10 or so people, that will be a victory. The harder I work, the more I can help.
