why did they do this?
Why did they do this?
The Ottoman Empire was a European empire, debate me
fake map, it contains some places which were held for a couple years.
ottomans came from asia
How can the Ottomans be the Sick Man of Europe if they're not European?
North America would be so much better today if the borders stayed like that
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Uruguay is Brazilian clay
Topkapi palace was in Europe. That literally makes the Ottoman Empire a European Empire.
bumpo
>afghanistan is grey
such a meme
>spanish empire existed above california
Europeans are nothing more than savages warmongers
was france even trying?
better question; why don't we do this anymore
Same reason Russians can be the Sick Man of Asia when they're not Asian.
Oregon and Washington was claimed by multiple empires for a long time
Just like the brit one existed on the northern parts of Canada. And we had several forts and outposts up there, yes.
Delet
We had colonies in California and Hawaii
How did Saudi keep their independence?
i didnt know that a lot of shitskins hate all europeans just because they have light skin
cisplatina is rightful brasilean clay
blame the spaniards for that one, they were the ones retarded enough to give us free reign in the region
ridiculous tech lead. Like having nukes in the Rennaissance age in Civ 4. Practically no competition, but they weren't as brutal as the Romans or Greeks and they didn't genocide the natives enough to prevent them from overthrowing them later.
It wasn’t just claimed but recognized by the only powers that could treat the claims in an agreement after your revolutionary war
We got bored of bantering each other and other people bantering us constantly so we decided to banter the world.
spanish subhumans must die
Filipe is a good name lad, and he as was good lad too, the destroyer of swamp Germans.
christians probably were afraid to trigger an full out jihad, and it wasnt worth. coal was the valuable instead of oil
>Just like the brit one existed on the northern parts of Canada.
Not really, our mainland was still underpopulated so no need for colonists to go elsewhere.
They did because it was a desert hellhole (oil was irrelevant back then), the coastal cities were under ottoman rule though, hence Lawrence of Arabia