>reconquista war against moors that extended for 8 centuries unlike lasting 100 years punic wars, literally 8 centuries to beat a bunch of arabs from a peninsula the size of west turkey>moors didn't even use war elephants as punics did>spaniards didn't buried Marrakech and Tunis below the sands of desert as Romans did with Carthage>orientalid hegemony in Eurasia from 622 to 1492 unlike Hellenistic and Roman western hegemony during Antiquity varied with Oriental Persian, Assyrian and Babylonian hegemony>steppods are a crowd of yellow chink cuckolds unlike indoeuropean scythians and sarmatians of antiquity>Baghdad is shitty city compared to Babylon>French crusaders miserably failed at the conquest of the Orient unlike Alexander the Great>the only interesting temple built by Orientals in 1,000 was Mosque of Cordoba, same for Greeks with Hagia Sophia, meanwhile in Antiquity you had a lot of interesting temples everywhere>Gigantic yet tolerant Achaemenid Empire replaced by despotic Arab Caliphates>Romans suddenly replaced by useless snowniggers at north and g(rease)reeks at south>Greeks still around but somehow gayer and convinced they're akshully Romans>Slavic swamp creatures somehow a more shitty version of what snowniggers were for Imperial Rome>snowniggers and Turco-Mongols are a bunch of retards that only raid totally unable to build>China getting fucked left and right>No Alexander the Great equivalent>inb4 muh gengis khan, it was a gay ass bloody poor horde without any cultural legacy of relevance as hellenistic period>Jews everywhere3/10 disappointing sequel
>>518717471Prester John was Armenian, but they didn't know what Armenia was in Europe. Ethiopia became Orthodox through Armenian missionaries during the Byzantine era which is where the confusion arose from, they knew vaguely about Ethiopia but not Armenia.
>>518718153by the 1600s they did start encountering Armenians again and going to Armenia, ironically because the Turks won and expanded their empire allowing foreigners in to formerly inaccessible Byzantine territory, so the myth disappeared. before that was called the Dark Ages after all.
