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Kody_Z t1_j0czsis wrote

Reply to comment by MarbyRedChainSmoker in Scientists Found 168 More Ancient Figures Etched Into the Peruvian Desert by That-Situation-4262

I hope you're being sarcastic.

Otherwise if the first thing you see when you look at a goofy, ancient picture of a human drawn in the dirt is "wow that looks like a racist drawing of an African". . . That means You are the racist, my friend.

Same with people who see orcs in various fantasy settings and think "orcs are like black people".

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Intranetusa t1_j0ctqku wrote

Reply to comment by HisKoR in My own English translation of the Manchu literary source about the Battle of Sarhv, a battle between a Chinese-Mongolian-Korean joint force and Manchus horde./Mini beye hergenleme Manju gisun suduri de Sarhv daini Ingri gisun ubaliyambure, Nikasi Monggoso Korise i cooha dainde Manju gurunbe afanuha. by Karvier

>Doubt they had any proper musket training nor was combined arms a concept understood in China at the time.

Combined arms was a concept understood at the time (Ming Dynasty in this 17th century battle) and had been used since the 400s BC (when crossbowmen were combined with archers, pikemen, halberdiers, etc in Warring States armies). The Ming Dynasty had pike formations that combined musketeers with pikemen and archers.

The 16th century Ming general Qi Jiguang even developed a quasi-pike formation called the Mandarin duck that combined shielded swordsmen + pikemen + ranged troops (muskets, archers, etc) + a guy with a weird polearm called the wolf's brush.

The problem here was not the lack of knowledge, but that government corruption and incompetence meant the soldiers were not properly equipped or trained to use combined arms combat correctly.

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elmonoenano t1_j0cgnuf wrote

Reply to comment by nola_throwaway53826 in Bookclub Wednesday! by AutoModerator

There's a few books recently about the Battle of Chosen Reservoir. I know Hampton Sides had one a couple years ago.

Also Bruce Cummings has a fairly popular book on it called The Korean War. It's about a decade old. But he did a post on fivebooks.com recommending 5 books on the war. https://fivebooks.com/best-books/bruce-cumings-on-the-korean-war/

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Penkala89 t1_j0cbhd5 wrote

Reply to comment by A1CST in Scientists Found 168 More Ancient Figures Etched Into the Peruvian Desert by That-Situation-4262

Though there are some famously large geoglyphs, most of the ones in this article were relatively small (10-20ft across).

And the desert is also just ... Huge. As a challenge/demonstration, go to Google Earth/Google Maps, go to the first location that pops up for the Nazca Lines and see how long it takes you to find them/how many you can find.

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