This is a bit unorthodox for this sub, but I thought ya'll might find this tid bit of history interesting! I was reading through Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander and came across this awesome feat of alpinism.
In 327 B.C. Alexander had just defeated Spitamenes, the leader of the Sogdian and Bactrian resistance, when he was informed that the remaining Sogdians who still wanted to fight back had fled to the Sogidan Rock, a fortress that was thought to be impregnable by the Sogdians and Bactrians. [0] Alexander arrives at the beginning of spring.
>When Alexander approached it, he found it precipitous on all sides against assault, and that the barbarians had collected provisions for a long siege. The great quantity of snow which had fallen helped to make the approach more difficult to the Macedonians, while at the same time it kept the barbarians supplied with plenty of water. But notwithstanding all this, he resolved to assault the place; for a certain overweening and insolent boast uttered by the barbarians had thrown him into a wrathful state of ambitious pertinacity. For when they were invited to come to terms of capitulation, and it was held out to them as an inducement, that if they surrendered the place, they would be allowed to withdraw in safety to their own abodes, they burst out laughing, and in their barbaric tongue bade Alexander seek winged soldiers, to capture the mountain for him, since they had no apprehension of danger from other men. [1]
>He then issued a proclamation that the first man who mounted should have a reward of twelve talents, the man who came next to him the second prize, and the third so on in proportion, so that the last reward should be three hundred darics to the last prize-taker who reached the top. This proclamation excited the valour of the Macedonians still more, though they were even before very eager to commence the assault. [1]
>All the men who had gained practice in scaling rocks in sieges, banded themselves together to the number of three hundred, and provided themselves with the small iron pegs with which their tents had been fastened to the ground, with the intention of fixing them into the snow, where it might be seen to be frozen hard, or in
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Hello,
I still have quite a lot of coins that I want to sell:) Mostly Russian and Russian-related, also Golden Horde and many other... Proof is here: https://imgur.com/gallery/2gY8AfL
Photos of each lot are in the album on google photos. You can press information button (i) on the upper right corner to see a description and price of each lot.
Worldwide registered shipping is $6. Shipping may be combined
- Lot 101: Russian wire Denga - Ivan IV the Terrible (Moscow) (1535-1538) KG#21 - $7
- Lot 101a: Russian wire Kopeck - Ivan IV the Terrible (1535-1547) KG#75 - $9
- Lot 102: nice Russian wire Kopeck - Mikhail I (ะะะก/ะะะ) (1613-1617) KG#331 - $12
- Lot 102a: average Russian wire Kopeck - Mikhail I (ะะะก/ะะะ) (1613-1617) KG#331 - $3
- Lot 103: Russian polushka 1722 - $4
- Lot 104: Russian polushka 1731 overstruck on 1 Kopeck 1728-1729 - $8
- Lot 105: Russian polushka 1735 - $4
- Lot 106: Russian Denga 1748 - $4
- Lot 107: Russian Denga 1735 flip-over double-struck - $11
- Lot 108: Russian Denga 1734 with double-struck - $4
- Lot 109: Russian 1 kopek 1759 - $5
- Lot 110: Russian polushka (ยผ kopek) 1766 - $9
- Lot 111: Russian denga (ยฝ kopek) 1770 - $3
- Lot 112: Russian 1 kopek 1789 - $12
- Lot 112a: Russian 2 kopek 1761 - $12
- Lot 113: Russian 5 kopek 1725 Mะ - $30
- Lot 114: Russian 5 kopek 1784 EM - $15
- Lot 115: Russian 5 kopek 1765 CM (Sestroretsk Mint) - $95
- Lot 117: Russian 5 Kopecks 1793 AM (Anninsky Mint) - $60
- Lot 118: Russian [5 Kopecks - Aleksandr I (ะะ) 1806](h
I've already chosen Samarkand as capital, but regarding religion, I'm unsure if either picking Yazidism or remain Zoroastrian. I've moded my religion icons, so Yazidism gets the beautiful peacock feather icon from EU4 once they become mainstream, but Zoroastrism is more fitting of a proper Persian ruler. Their burials aren't my thing, tho.
Manicheism is a third option, albeit I don't like it too much. It also lacks a lot of flavor compared to Zoroastrism.
Buddhism makes for a decent fourth option, and last on the list is Nestorianism. Which one would fit better a semi-historical Empire?
As a note, I'm gonna play as Saman-Khuda on the Charlemagne start, laying low with whatever religion I pick until I can carve my own realm and break free from the Taids.
The Kingdom of Sogdia (Soghda)
Government: Democratic Parliamentary Monarchy
Monarchy: Family Tree stretches all the way back to Oxyartes of Sogdiana
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Languages: Sogdian (Official and Most Spoken, influenced by Persian and Greek)
Scythian (2nd Most Spoken)
Tocharian (3rd Most Spoken)
Bactrian (4th Most Spoken)
Russian (Secondary Language)
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Capital: Marakanda
Religions:
- Zoroastrianism
- Manichaeism
- Buddhism
- Eastern Orthodox Christianity
- Catholicism
- Hinduism
Political Compass:
https://preview.redd.it/0y94ptwj8r171.png?width=400&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c6f939e64a4971c59eca0c9c9fd11ea65c593db
Flag:
https://preview.redd.it/tfe1roek8r171.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=417a68dec2f8aae9c37147dce10196a582d23c6f
Ethnic Populations outside of country:
- China (Northwest)
- Bactria
- Persia (Northeast)
- USA
- India (Northwest)
GDP (In Modern USD): 380 Billion, Rising
Industries: Electronics, Food Processing, Petroleum, Agriculture, Art, Tourism, Mining, and Aerovehicles
Factions: United Nations, Asia Cooperation Dialogue
Description:
Sogdiana resisted the invasions of the Gokturks and Huns after its independence from the Greco-Bactrians, the Sassanians and the Kushans, and managed to keep a foothold in Central Asia while participating in many wars and having its borders shifting throughout the centuries. It resisted the islamic invasions and helped Bactria and its neighbouring allies defeat the muslims as well, so Islam has a far smaller domain in Asia. The Mongols would never step foot deep into Central Asia due to the large concentration of Iranic tribes such as the Scythians, since the territories of the Huns would have been much smaller to allow Sogdiana to survive them. As such, most of Central Asia except parts east of Syr Darya would have been Indo-European and non-muslim to the industrial era, where the Russian Empire colonises Central Asia much like in our real timeline, except communism would never rise and Russia's colonise would gain independence much sooner, which is why Sogdia has russian as a secondary language but have a stable and established economy like Germany.
Map:
https://preview.redd.it/rso937huhr171.png?width=867&format=png&auto=webp&s=36447c1290976bb0d21b0e78a35e051dcee5bfc7
Or more to the point, what are some good (English language) resources on the subject? How much do we really know? Did anything survive into the modern era (culturally or linguistically)? I just finished Alexander at the World's End by Tom Holt and I'm intrigued.
Like I said my last modded civ that I posted about previously failed, it was heavily based on bonuses to land trade routes and many of their attributes seem hard coded into the game.
So, until I figure that out I am working on a slightly simpler civilization, The Mycenaeans. The Mycenaeans were a civilization that inhabited the Greek mainland during the Bronze Age from about 1650 BCE to 1200 BCE. Some believe they were the inspiration for many later Greek myths, and we're the Achaeans who fought the Trojans in Homers works the iliad and odyssey.
The Mycenaeans
Leader: Agamemnon
Capital: Mycene
UA: Heroic Epics- gain culture equal to 1/3 of your next social policy when you capture an enemy city for the first time, gain a free great hero at bronze working.
Edit: should this scale with map size? Maybe a full policy on duel and tiny, half on standard and large, 1/3 on huge? Something like that?
UU: Great Hero- replaces great general and great writer. In addition to its normal bonuses units within 2 tiles of a great hero gain a 50% bonus against cities and generate great writer points when they kill a unit based on that units strength. Can be expended for a great myth, functionally identical to great works of writing, but may not be used for a burst of culture or to build a citadel.
UB: Megaron- replaces courthouse, unlocked at masonry. The Megaron still removes unhappiness from occupied cities, but can be built in any city, in addition it provides 2 culture and 25% faster great person generation to the city it is built in.
>A black storm stirs far away under watchful eye
>Of its life-giver, that great, boundless, sprawling eternal blue sky
>Drifting โcross steppe, surging in waves, stretched and strained
>The rhythmic melee of a thousand hooves โcross a thousand milesโ plain
>With lance and mace braced and poised
>To tear through now-deadened pastures and fields, scorched and ruined,
>And rend in twain folk and countries once proud and vain
>But reduced now to fodder, base and beaten, a spoke of a wheel atop which rolls
>The trundling cart on which empires are borne
>Before themselves falling beneath its ever-turning wheels,
>The victim of some other's scorn
>Which comes as does fire across a summer sunscorched steppe
>And leaves them bowed and broken, chewed and gnawed,
>Trampled โneath the feet of another new-born Scourge of God.
A storm stirs over the steep cliffs and rocky bluffs from which the great men of history have perennially rode out to bring the world under their reign. These are the Pamir-Alays, greatest of all mountains โ and such is fitting, for who else have they bred but the greatest of all men? So it is today.
The balance of power is shifted in the Turkhanate court. The old Khan lies dead, sprawled and broken on the marble floor of the great palace which has since the Deluge housed the lords of this place. His illness had plagued him for months and his death had been long expected for it, it is true โ but illness does not a dagger spawn in your back. And on his birthday, too! Yet, as the saying goes, a weak king is a weak kingdom, and so there can be little surprise at the old man's fate.
What is more worthy of surprise is the man who now sits uncontested in the Khan's mighty throne. If any had been asked who would be the first to kill the old Khan โ after all, nobody had seriously believed that his illness would be the death of him โ none would have guessed it to be Timerฤฑlgiz, that minor lord of the Mastchoh. And yet there he sits, while the old man's blood still runs warm and as all attended stand duly silent.
The dark young Khan is ambitious, of course; his quick rise from obscurity only three or four years ago and his subsequent ascension through the ranks of the minor Mastchoh nobility are proof enough of that. But his holdings are still insignificant, his forces few. There will be contention. Those who think themselves stronger than he โ and who, perhaps, have
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Capital: Samarkand
Leader: ??? (suggestions welcome)
UA: Heart of the Silk Road, caravans are equal to cargo ships in movement and yields, receive 1 science and 1 culture for every 3 5 gold earned from trade routes.
UU: Caravan Guard,replaces chariot archer: does not have the rough terrain penalty of the original, ignores terrain costs when moving along land Trade Routes connected to your empire, start with +1 Movement and gain health on kill if they begin their turn on such a Trade Route.
UB: rebฤแนญ, replaces caravansary: Land trade routes originating from this city have a 50% increase in range and produce an additional +2 Gold when connecting to another civilization. The Trade Route owners receive +2 Gold for each Trade Route sent to this city, if you have an open trade slot a free caravan appears in the city on completion. Costs 175 155 standard speed production instead of 120.
Edit: I'll be making some changes, marked in the text, based on feedback, thanks everyone. Edit: Events and decisions idea:
Construct the Sogdian Rock
Pre-reques: must be in the classical era, only once per game
Costs: 600 gold, resets the cityโs food store to zero.
Effect: A unique wonder, The Sogdian Rock is built in Samarkand, grants +12 defense and +4 production in the city. Raises the empires trade route slots by +1.
Translate foreign texts into Sogdiana
Per-reques: can be enacted once per era, cannot be enacted in the ancient era.
Costs: 200 gold, 1 magistrate
Effect: receive (20xera) science, culture, and faith for every civilization you have a trade route with
Edit: changed the caravan guard, it now replaces the chariot archer, but is almost exactly the same in every other way. Credit to /u/NA_Edxu and /u/DJMoShekkels for guard changes.
What's the central asian/uzbek instrument playing in Sogdiana's Serdste Magnit and Tolko Dva Serdtsa?
Any similar music you can recommend?
Edit: Are many Uzbek women as pretty as Sogdiana?
Do your worst!
It really does, I swear!
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies ๐
Theyโre on standbi
Buenosdillas
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
Why
Hello,
I still have quite a lot of coins that I want to sell:) Mostly Russian and Russian-related, also Golden Horde and many other... Proof is here: https://imgur.com/gallery/i04wAaR
Photos of each lot are in the album on google photos. You can press information button (i) on the upper right corner to see a description and price of each lot.
Worldwide registered shipping is $7. Shipping may be combined
- Lot 101: nice Russian wire Denga - Ivan IV the Terrible (Moscow) (1535-1538) KG#21 - $7
- Lot 101a: nice Russian wire Denga - Ivan IV the Terrible (Moscow) (1535-1547) KG#48 - $8
- Lot 101b: nice Russian wire Kopeck - Ivan IV the Terrible (1535-1547) KG#75 - $7
- Lot 102: nice Russian wire Kopeck - Mikhail I (ะะะก/ะะะ) (1613-1617) KG#331 - $11
- Lot 102a: average Russian wire Kopeck - Mikhail I (ะะะก/ะะะ) (1613-1617) KG#331 - $3
- Lot 102b: Russian wire Kopeck - Pyotr I year 1702 KG#1918 - $5
- Lot 103: Russian polushka 1722 - $4
- Lot 104: Russian polushka 1731 overstruck on 1 Kopeck 1728-1729 - $8
- Lot 105: Russian polushka 1735 - $4
- Lot 106: Russian Denga 1748 - $4
- Lot 107: Russian Denga 1735 flip-over double-struck - $11
- Lot 108: Russian Denga 1734 with double-struck - $4
- Lot 109: Russian 1 kopek 1759 - $5
- Lot 110: Russian polushka (ยผ kopek) 1766 - $9
- Lot 111: Russian denga (ยฝ kopek) 1770 - $3
- Lot 112: Russian 1 kopek 1789 - $12
- Lot 112a: Russian 2 kopek 1761 - $12
- Lot 113: Russian 5 kopek 1725 Mะ - $20
- Lot 114: Russian 5 Kopeks - Elizaveta 1759 - $16
Hello,
still have quite a lot of coins that I want to sell:) Mostly Russian and Russian-related, also Golden Horde and many other... Proof is here: https://imgur.com/gallery/WLi9n3T
Photos of each lot are in the album on google photos. You can press information button (i) on the upper right corner to see a description and price of each lot.
Worldwide registered shipping is $6. Shipping may be combined
- Lot 101: nice Russian wire Kopeck - Mikhail I (ะะะก/ะะะ) (1613-1617) KG#340 - $10
- Lot 102: average Russian wire Kopeck - Mikhail I (ะะะก/ะะะ) (1613-1617) KG#331 - $3 (also I have about 500 more unrecognized Russian wire coins available at 1.3 per coin)
- Lot 103: Russian polushka 1722 - $4
- Lot 104: Russian polushka 1731 overstruck on 1 Kopeck 1728-1729 - $8
- Lot 105: Russian polushka 1735 - $4
- Lot 106: Russian Denga 1735 - $4
- Lot 107: Russian Denga 1735 flip-over double-struck - $11
- Lot 108: Russian Denga 1734 with double-struck - $4
- Lot 109: Russian 1 kopek 1759 - $5
- Lot 110: Russian polushka (ยผ kopek) 1766 - $9
- Lot 111: Russian denga (ยฝ kopek) 1770 - $3
- Lot 112: Russian 1 kopek 1789 - $12
- Lot 112a: Russian 2 kopek 1761 - $12
- Lot 113: Russian 5 kopek 1725 Mะ - $30
- Lot 114: Russian 5 kopek 1775 EM - $20
- Lot 115: Russian 5 kopek 1765 CM (Sestroretsk Mint) - $95
- Lot 116: Russian 5 Kopecks 1795 KM (Suzun Mint) - $50
- Lot 117: Russian 5 Kopecks 1793 AM (Anninsky Mint) - $60
- Lot 118: Russian 5 Kopecks - Aleksandr I (ะะ) 1806 - $50
- Lot 119: Russian
Hello,
I still have quite a lot of coins that I want to sell:) Mostly Russian and Russian-related, also Golden Horde and many other... Proof is here: https://imgur.com/gallery/Sd2oURw (updated)
Photos of each lot are in the album on google photos. You can press information button (i) on the upper right corner to see a description and price of each lot.
Worldwide registered shipping is $7. Shipping may be combined
- Lot 101: nice Russian wire Denga - Ivan IV the Terrible (Moscow) (1535-1538) KG#21 - $7
- Lot 101a: nice Russian wire Kopeck - Ivan IV the Terrible (1535-1547) KG#75 - $9
- Lot 102: nice Russian wire Kopeck - Mikhail I (ะะะก/ะะะ) (1613-1617) KG#331 - $12
- Lot 102a: average Russian wire Kopeck - Mikhail I (ะะะก/ะะะ) (1613-1617) KG#331 - $3
- Lot 103: Russian polushka 1722 - $4
- Lot 104: Russian polushka 1731 overstruck on 1 Kopeck 1728-1729 - $8
- Lot 105: Russian polushka 1735 - $4
- Lot 106: Russian Denga 1748 - $4
- Lot 107: Russian Denga 1735 flip-over double-struck - $11
- Lot 108: Russian Denga 1734 with double-struck - $4
- Lot 109: Russian 1 kopek 1759 - $5
- Lot 110: Russian polushka (ยผ kopek) 1766 - $9
- Lot 111: Russian denga (ยฝ kopek) 1770 - $3
- Lot 112: Russian 1 kopek 1789 - $12
- Lot 112a: Russian 2 kopek 1761 - $12
- Lot 113: Russian 5 kopek 1725 Mะ - $30
- Lot 114: Russian 5 Kopeks - Elizaveta 1759 - $17
- Lot 115: Russian 5 kopek 1784 EM - $12
- Lot 116: Russian 5 kopek 1779 EM - $29
- Lot 117: Russian [5 Kopeks 1793 AM](https://en.numista.com/cat
Hello,
still have quite a lot of coins that I want to sell:) Mostly Russian and Russian-related, also Golden Horde and many other... Proof is here: https://imgur.com/gallery/HDQMYyQ
Photos of each lot are in the album on google photos. You can press information button (i) on the upper right corner to see a description and price of each lot.
Worldwide registered shipping is $6. Shipping may be combined
- Lot 101: nice Russian wire Kopeck - Mikhail I (ะะะก/ะะะ) (1613-1617) KG#340 - $11
- Lot 102: average Russian wire Kopeck - Mikhail I (ะะะก/ะะะ) (1613-1617) KG#331 - $3 (also I have about 500 more unrecognized Russian wire coins available at 1.3 per coin)
- Lot 103: Russian polushka 1722 - $5
- Lot 104: Russian polushka 1731 overstruck on 1 Kopeck 1728-1729 - $8
- Lot 105: Russian polushka 1735 - $4
- Lot 106: Russian Denga 1735 - $4
- Lot 107: Russian Denga 1735 flip-over double-struck - $12
- Lot 108: Russian Denga 1734 with double-struck - $5
- Lot 109: Russian 1 kopek 1759 - $6
- Lot 110: Russian polushka (ยผ kopek) 1766 - $10
- Lot 111: Russian denga (ยฝ kopek) 1770 - $3
- Lot 112: Russian 1 kopek 1789 - $12
- Lot 112a: Russian 2 kopek 1761 - $12
- Lot 113: Russian 5 kopek 1725 Mะ - $35
- Lot 114: Russian 5 kopek 1775 EM - $20
- Lot 115: Russian 5 kopek 1765 CM (Sestroretsk Mint) - $97
- Lot 116: Russian 5 Kopecks 1795 KM (Suzun Mint) - $50
- Lot 117: Russian 5 Kopecks 1793 AM (Anninsky Mint) - $60
- Lot 118: Russian 5 Kopecks - Aleksandr I (ะะ) 1806 - $50
- Lot 119: Russian
