>"I am Jebkur of Blak, god of gods, king of the universe, I control the sun, I make my enemies kill and eat their children, I burned down (list of cities)"Why did these bronze age kings write this kind of stuff? Most ruled city states as big as Rhode Island, and the 'empires' were usually no bigger then Virginia, so why did they think they were such hot shit?Also do you think modern CEO's (like Bezos/Musk/etc) would be like bronze age kings if they had no one checks on their power?
>>18243979Why do politicians still pump out propaganda depicting them as kindhearted civil servants when it should be clear they're all sociopathic kleptocrats? Because the masses will believe whatever the most charismatic force / institution in their lives tells them to.
>>18243979Kind of a requirement when you need a right to rule over men who could rise their own private armies.
>>18243979>be the year 7455>"why did people think Napoleon was great if he only conquered a continent and not entire solar systems"This is what your doing.You have to look at it from the perspective of the times they lived in. These are people basically living at the "madmax" level of civilization. Everything comes down to what you and your buddies can make by hand, people who can write are about as common as people who can do tensor calculus today, your "military" is basically no better then a hells angels gang (it's only advantge being that it's organizated), you're surrounded by ghetto gangster types savages on all sides, and events as bad as WW2/great depression happen every 5 years. So you DON'T get to be a king by being a nice humble guy. You had to have delusional levels of self belief to make it.
>>18243979If you believed that there were only 2-3 men at any time to be your equal in the world (but not really) you'd probably think you're the shit. Why would the Akkadian kings not think they were awesome? As far as they were aware they conquered the entire civilised world. Old Kingdom Egypt on the other hand as well, thinking they ruled the entire civilised world.
>>18244300*city-state gets destroyed by random flooding*
>>18243979>Why did bronze age kings have such massive egosIt's just the Akkadians really lmaoWatching them parrot Sumerians and Egyptians is like watching a monkey wear a suit and put on cologne. It's trying to look civilized but you know it throws its poop and it's only a matter of itme.
>>18243979Because they were cool and you are not
>>18243979REAL QUESTION:Why do alt right commentors love the bronze age?Bronze age pervert, sargon of akkad, bronze age mantis, bronze age mindset, etc
>>18244335They like to think the Bronze Age was some Conan-esque mythical Age of tradition, faith, heroism, and might makes right. Add to the mix the schizoposting of Agartha/Thule/similar mythical white civilizations and you get the Right Wing Brzonze Age love starter pack
>>18244335>quick-deflect to other people somehowPathetic. Also, ,that's not history retard.
>>18243979I refuse to believe it's real niggas making these threads
>>18244338So wait, it's just a heckin fantasy barbarian "red pill" larp? LOLSo Sargon_of_akkad thinks hes some bad-ass barbarian he-man from Thule (or wants to be)?
>>18243979Longhouse faggots that cannot read need a story why they should grow crops instead of just dying.
>>18243979The world of these ancient near eastern people was very small. As far as they were concerned, MENA was literally the whole Earth. You can look at Babylonian maps of the world, and this is how they viewed things. So of course they were impressed with their small empires. To them they were massive. That’s not to say they were egomaniacs with Napoleon syndrome though. These kings were smart, and they realized that putting forward an image of power and striking terror into people just is the only way to maintain sovereignty in a historical context where there are no huge centralized states, and it’s really difficult to physically project power over large swaths of territory.
>>18244365Ok makes sense, except, why couldn't they conquer bigger empires? Persians weren't that much different culturally/technologically, and they could conquer huge areas. It seems like (esspecially with Akkadians) they just though they were the hot shit.
>>18244383>they just though they were the hot shit.So do Japanese today, they act Nobunaga is on par with like Alexander the Great. Even worse are the Jews who act like David/Solomen were God-Emperors.
>>18243979>Also do you think modern CEO's (like Bezos/Musk/etc) would be like bronze age kings if they had no one checks on their power?Let me tell you something anon, Bezos thinks exactly like these guys did. He just doesn't say it out loud.
>>18243979No "legitimacy".Dawn of time, can't get your priests to cook up that you're related to some earlier king or a descendent of trojan exiles or the heir of the x empire on your mothers side twice removed.It's just you and the battles you've won, so you gotta lean pretty hard into that and depict yourself as chad holding the head of your dead basedjak enemies on every stone surface capable of being relief carved.
>>18244430>Dawn of time, can't get your priests to cook up that you're related to some earlier king or a descendent of trojan exiles or the heir of the x empire on your mothers side twice removed.They literally could do that. Read the Sumerian King List.
>>18244430>cook up that you're related to some earlier king (Sassanid) Ardashir I claiming he was decendant of Darius III.>descendent of trojan exiles Merovingians claiming they were decendant of a sub-band of Aeneas's follwers lead by "Francio".>or the heir of the x empire(Russia) Ivan III claiming he was the New Eastern Roman Empire.
>>18244434>They literally could do that. Read the Sumerian King List.Yeah saying you're decendant from a confirmed real person (or everyone thinks is real) gives you grounded gravitas.Saying your decendan from Mythical king who lived 5,000 years w/gold skin and fought dragons the size of Neptune doesn't make you (as a ruler) look good in comparison.
>>18244442Bronze age you illiterate retard.
>>18244351>larphistory is all larp and fanfics when its not fake and gay
>>18244444>Read the Sumerian King List.all true
>>18244550>history is all larp and fanfics when its not fake and gayYeah but some stuff is more fake and gay, such as believing the bronze age was this awesome conan he-man hyperborean utopia.
>>18244580>the bronze age was hyperborean yes, it was
>Why do violent retards also have massive egosperhaps we will never know
>>18243979I don't know but I would note that there's that funny thing where king lists have literal demigod kings like Gilgamesh and etc. who live for hundreds of years, and then at some point it just magically switches to normal sane reign periods where people die at 60 something.I wonder if bronze age kings at some point believed past state propaganda (the closest thing the near east had to history at the time) and myth about their forefather's and felt insecure living in the shadow of guys that lived for 600 years.
>>18244351>So Sargon_of_akkad thinks hes some bad-ass barbarian he-man from ThuleIt seems like you think that he thinks that. Wild
>>18243979Because all of that shit is a lot more impressive when people walk everywhere and your city state is one of the most populus and powerful entities to have ever existed.
>>18244383Because the social organization to do these things didn't exist yet.Also, they did- the hitties ruled Anatolia and the Levant. Assyrians conquered most of the Middle East. Give those same people a few centuries of civic, bureaucratic and Institutional advancement and they'd have conquered the world.
>>18244365This doesn't make sense given how far trading routes went. You could just ask some merchant "hey where did this stuff come from" and be able to track down the existence of a far off land.Also, you know, the fact that the land literally didn't end and you could just keep travelling.
>>18246043>You could just ask some merchant "hey where did this stuff come from"Yeah, and they'd say it came from the land of the doghead people, because they picked it up in trade cities like tyre they didn't go to the source.>the fact that the land literally didn't end and you could just keep travelling.They didn't have internet to be smug with back then, they stayed in their local area LIKE YOU DO TODAY and didn't know or care about stuff 100 miles outside their regional area.
>>18243979You basically answered the question yourself. Their massive egos stemmed from the fact that their power was often unchecked, allowing them to declare themselves gods and engage in behavior like that.
>>18244335all the weirder because those commentators are more often than not whites. their ancestors in the bronze age were the equivalent of modern day jeets, but more murderous and destructive.no different than kash patel LARPing as a viking if you ask me. sargon and asurbanipal would probably throw anglos into lion's dens just to watch them get eaten for being so loud and pompous
>>18244599>and then at some point it just magically switches to normal sane reign periods where people die at 60 something.pandora box event, people software and hardware was overwritten and they cranked planned obsolescence to the max
