A little gem of a NO POLITICS video for Sat night Salty Army!
"YOUR LIFE at Every Rank in Ancient Egypt!"
This is a completely fictional script with AI, childlike cartoon illustrations, but you know what it does?
It highlights the basic rules and procedures of every Empire that has ever been!
As the video explains, the Egyptian Empire was built on the taxes of food produced by dirt poor Egyptian farmers.... and EVERY empire since then has BEEN BUILT ON its previous Harvests and farm taxes,
and EVERY empire to this day HAS ARMIES of ACCOUNTANTS, TAX COLLECTORS and bureaucrats Who SOLE job is to make sure that last year's Harvests and taxes and state income is maintained if not increased for this year...
And that INCLUDES EVERY GENERAL, EVERY WARRIOR (soldier or hired mercenary), EVERY lord, land-owner, noble, temple official, priest, king of govt bureaucrat... NO MATTER HOW TOUGH, deserving, or CLOSE TO THE GODS they think ...
HAPPY FRIDAY NIGHT Salty Army!
This one's a bit late... but hopefully worth your time!
video 1, "The ASSYRIAN EMPIRE - the MOST BRUTAL, TERRIFYING EMPIRE ever in world history"
Now the Mongols, Huns, Tamerlane, and others WIPED OUT ENTIRE CITIES, MASSACRED WHOLE POPULATIONS, but only the Aztecs, Maya and a few other DEATH OBSESSED "civilizations" DECORATED THEIR OWN PALACE and temple WALLS with the SKINS, HEADS, and TORTURED BODIES of their enemies! ***
And neither the Maya nor the Aztecs nor any other HUMAN SACRIFICE to the gods) empire I can think of was able to form HUGE ARMIES of TENS OF THOUSANDS of men, supply them to march HUNDREDS of miles to attack equally sized foreign empires - AS THE ASSYRIANS DID, fighting north in to Anatolia (present day Turkey) South West in to Elam (present day Iran) north West to CONQUER THE ENTIRE eastern Mediterranean coast from Syria down to Sinai and they even conquered EGYPT a few times ....
