But European conquest during that time had very little influence on the rest of the world.

Asian conquest did.

11/16/2005 5:41:14 PM

salt

salt enabled food preservation thus liberating armies to attack far beyond their borders

11/16/2005 6:25:41 PM

^ how about shoes? they liberated armies to walk far.

duuuuuuurrrrrrr.

11/16/2005 6:31:10 PM

look up the history of salt

[Edited on November 16, 2005 at 6:34 PM. Reason : ]

11/16/2005 6:33:19 PM

How about PEOPLE.

Whoa. DID I BLOW YOUR FUCKING MIND?!?

11/16/2005 6:34:53 PM

haha, if jet li and ex-lax get to be in this thread, i can damn well add salt

11/16/2005 6:36:55 PM

How about... DEATH?

11/16/2005 7:04:42 PM

Colt 45 Revolver

Put the vigors of constant reloading to rest.

11/16/2005 7:09:12 PM

poo on a stick

11/16/2005 7:15:27 PM

^^hahaah, funny you say that. B/c i think they would actually hurl shit covered horses over castle walls using the Trebuchet. see page 2

11/16/2005 7:19:33 PM

power

11/16/2005 7:22:46 PM

Religion

11/16/2005 7:24:03 PM

Knife

11/16/2005 7:38:40 PM

love

11/16/2005 7:46:46 PM

^ I said that shit on page one, man.

11/16/2005 7:47:57 PM

then, lust

or aids

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11/16/2005 7:48:38 PM

STEEL

11/16/2005 8:02:15 PM

Crack.

11/16/2005 8:07:11 PM

liberals

11/16/2005 8:08:00 PM

black people

11/16/2005 8:12:08 PM

darth vader

11/16/2005 8:24:18 PM

The M1 Garand

11/16/2005 8:40:28 PM

The penis mightier

11/16/2005 8:53:51 PM

the fist

11/16/2005 10:35:02 PM

the real answer;



























































the liberal media

11/16/2005 10:51:39 PM

EMP

At least it will be if there's a big time war in the future.

11/17/2005 12:11:45 AM

women














drivers!

11/17/2005 12:14:39 AM

This is too damn easy .... The Flux Capacitor

11/17/2005 12:19:51 AM

viagra hands down

11/17/2005 12:23:24 AM

The T-1000.

11/17/2005 1:33:46 PM

Given all the salsburyboy threads right now,

I think Im going to have to go wth the jews.

11/17/2005 1:39:45 PM

Quote :

"A lot of historians say that."

Like the longbow, the stirrup has been vastly and tragically overrated.

Quote :

"If you don't think so, go reread a bit of history. Guns never changed the course of the world. Comparing shit like settling the west or invading S. America doesn't come close to the wars where the longbow dominated entire armies."

What the fuck are you talking about? The longbow was mainly used by the Brits and never decided battles on it's own. Even early guns were like a billion times more widespread and influential than the longbow. Come on, that's bullshit. Please tell me you're just trolling...

Quote :

"Mongolian mounted archer."

But there wasn't anything revolutionary or even different about the weapons that the Mongols used. Horse archers and mounted lancers had both been used for more than a thousand years. The Mongol triumph in the 13th century was about organization, not weapons technology.

Quote :

"thats pretty much the reasoning behind the stirrup. before its invention, it was just infantry. with the stirrup, it lead to cavalry and knights, to name just a couple variations of troops, that ultimately changed the face of war AND led to the domination of europe for a couple hundred years or so."

Bullshit. Your paragraph is uniformly wrong. Alexander's heavy cavalry kicked plenty of ass without the benefit of the stirrup, as did Parthian cataphracts. The stirrup helped, sure, but the sumpremacy of cavalry during the Middle Ages has be great overstated.

11/17/2005 2:05:48 PM

Would the jeep count as a weapon?

That might be a good choice.

11/17/2005 2:20:54 PM

shoes

11/17/2005 3:09:33 PM

We're going to go with potato salad.

11/17/2005 3:34:46 PM

Its seriously funny how nobody is considering the atomic age.

11/17/2005 3:37:54 PM

11/17/2005 3:52:10 PM

the best weapon has always been and will always be a great leader.

11/17/2005 4:47:33 PM

this thread hit its LOL-stride in a big fucking way on this page

t-1000

11/17/2005 5:18:54 PM

No one's said

"Deez nuts"

11/17/2005 5:20:00 PM

word

11/17/2005 10:32:43 PM

no real it is shoes. Think about. Next to fire and the hand axe shoes are the greatest invention ever. Image fighting a war with out shoes. Imagine fighting with out shoes.

11/18/2005 8:20:18 AM

damn. he's got a point.

11/18/2005 8:23:02 AM

fire is not an invention

11/18/2005 9:30:16 AM

Quote :

"Imagine fighting with out shoes."

The Romans fought in sandals.

11/18/2005 12:42:32 PM

hippies play hackie sack in sandals

11/18/2005 12:56:10 PM

^^I think he meant barefoot.

I'd take these over nothing:

11/18/2005 2:07:41 PM

THE JEW WORLD ORDER

11/18/2005 2:20:16 PM

Quote :

"the physicist "

11/18/2005 9:32:45 PM

The physicist is just one particular modification for the jew.

other mods include banker and journalist.

11/18/2005 10:15:02 PM