I think they were cool because they were like the most evolved model of an obsolete line so they had to add on a bunch of wonky institutions as fast as they could to try and keep up. Can you think of other places like that? Imperialist China too, maybe.
>>18254444Russia
The Ottomans literally created the classical islamic state and lasted 600 years.>obsolete line Western cope for not being able to crush them for centuries.>Can you think of other places like that?By that logic, every empire ever is a dinosaur because they all adapt Romans = Dinosaurs. Br*ts = Dinosaurs.
>Br*ts
>>18254452Rome and Britain are chickens now.
>>18254449Honestly, I see it. Imperialist ethnic hegemony thing. They have interesting "class features" such as being able to send their entire prison population to the frontline.
