In Class today...
Tricks @ Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:52 pm
xerxes xerxes:
No. The Persians are considered to be more Arab than anything else. Their empire stretched from the Agean Sea to Baghdad and many points in between.
Ah ok.
Arctic_Menace @ Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:56 pm
$1:
Sorry, you're teacher doesn't know what he's talking about. It's not a trick question, it's an incorrect one. Of his choices, only the Persian, Macedonian or Roman Empires could theoretically be considered ancient.
Who said anything about the choices on the list being the right choices?
$1:
No. The Persians are considered to be more Arab than anything else. Their empire stretched from the Agean Sea to Baghdad and many points in between.
Didn't they go all the way to the Indus River? Also, didn't they go trhough a period of Hellenization after Alexander the Great?
xerxes @ Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:10 pm
$1:
Didn't they go all the way to the Indus River? Also, didn't they go trhough a period of Hellenization after Alexander the Great?
I think so (my knowledge of Antiquity is far from complete). For sure, Alexander made it about that far and his conquest did bring in a period of Hellenization to what's know as Asia Minor and Western Asia along with the eastern Mediterranean.
But the Persian Empire spans many centuries and their borders changed on occasion. Also, it's worth noting that in the early 13th century the Mongols took a turn through what's now Iran/Iraq and completely destroyed the Caliphate of Baghdad which was never rebuilt or reinstated.
Arctic_Menace @ Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:07 pm
$1:
But the Persian Empire spans many centuries and their borders changed on occasion. Also, it's worth noting that in the early 13th century the Mongols took a turn through what's now Iran/Iraq and completely destroyed the Caliphate of Baghdad which was never rebuilt or reinstated.
Okay, well then to be clear, I'm speaking of the Achaemenid Persians, whose Empire stretched from the Aegean to the Indus and had Bactria in the north and Egypt in the south. This was the Empire that Alexander conquered. The only difference was that Greece adn Macedonia were now part of the empire. The borders didn't change much.
Mr_Canada old @ Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:10 pm
Tricks Tricks:
FRANCE!! UNDER NAPOLEAN!! 
I am sticking with my Galactic Empire. They had the deaths star. Lets see any of those choice make that thing. And Darth Vader FTW (He had a maroon sword too.)
NERD! I am sticking with my Galactic Empire. They had the deaths star. Lets see any of those choice make that thing. And Darth Vader FTW (He had a maroon sword too.)
Tricks @ Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:19 pm
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Tricks Tricks:
FRANCE!! UNDER NAPOLEAN!!
I am sticking with my Galactic Empire. They had the deaths star. Lets see any of those choice make that thing. And Darth Vader FTW (He had a maroon sword too.)
NERD! I am sticking with my Galactic Empire. They had the deaths star. Lets see any of those choice make that thing. And Darth Vader FTW (He had a maroon sword too.)
Mr_Canada old @ Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:21 pm
Tricks Tricks:
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Tricks Tricks:
FRANCE!! UNDER NAPOLEAN!!
I am sticking with my Galactic Empire. They had the deaths star. Lets see any of those choice make that thing. And Darth Vader FTW (He had a maroon sword too.)
NERD! I am sticking with my Galactic Empire. They had the deaths star. Lets see any of those choice make that thing. And Darth Vader FTW (He had a maroon sword too.)
Infact, I thought Star Wars and Star Trek was the same thing until i was 13. Still don't know the difference,,,,
Tricks @ Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:24 pm
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Tricks Tricks:
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Tricks Tricks:
FRANCE!! UNDER NAPOLEAN!!
I am sticking with my Galactic Empire. They had the deaths star. Lets see any of those choice make that thing. And Darth Vader FTW (He had a maroon sword too.)
NERD! I am sticking with my Galactic Empire. They had the deaths star. Lets see any of those choice make that thing. And Darth Vader FTW (He had a maroon sword too.)
Infact, I thought Star Wars and Star Trek was the same thing until i was 13. Still don't know the difference,,,,
Mr_Canada old @ Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:25 pm
Tricks Tricks:
That's....that's... I don't even know what that is. I don't have the words for it.
It means I'm no nerd. 
Tricks @ Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:27 pm
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Tricks Tricks:
That's....that's... I don't even know what that is. I don't have the words for it.
It means I'm no nerd.
Mr_Canada old @ Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:29 pm
Tricks Tricks:
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Tricks Tricks:
That's....that's... I don't even know what that is. I don't have the words for it.
It means I'm no nerd.
Which one is the one with that funny looking ship called the USS something? Wars or Trek?
Infact, which is the one who had Darth Vader? Both of them?
Tricks @ Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:32 pm
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Tricks Tricks:
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Tricks Tricks:
That's....that's... I don't even know what that is. I don't have the words for it.
It means I'm no nerd. Which one is the one with that funny looking ship called the USS something? Wars or Trek?
Infact, which is the one who had Darth Vader? Both of them?
Streaker @ Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:35 pm
By population wouldn't China have been the largest?
Mr_Canada old @ Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:35 pm
Tricks Tricks:
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Tricks Tricks:
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Tricks Tricks:
That's....that's... I don't even know what that is. I don't have the words for it.
It means I'm no nerd. Which one is the one with that funny looking ship called the USS something? Wars or Trek?
Infact, which is the one who had Darth Vader? Both of them?
What's leaving the house got to do with watching STAR WARS?
Or Star Trek, or whatever.
Tricks @ Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:37 pm
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Tricks Tricks:
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Tricks Tricks:
Mr_Canada Mr_Canada:
Tricks Tricks:
That's....that's... I don't even know what that is. I don't have the words for it.
It means I'm no nerd. Which one is the one with that funny looking ship called the USS something? Wars or Trek?
Infact, which is the one who had Darth Vader? Both of them?
What's leaving the house got to do with watching STAR WARS?
Or Star Trek, or whatever.Seriously, even people who never saw the movies knew who Darth Vader was. Shit you are one sheltered person.