Lucy Stephanie
Sooo next historical topic to check on after this...
@owstalaga - Continuing on my prev plurk... No wonde...

Battle of Lepanto. (evilsmirk)
Mark (CG)
Lepanto's pretty cool. Don Quixote's author fought in it (LOL)
Lucy Stephanie
Mark (CG) : oooh. Interesting indeed.
Mark (CG)
Battle of Lepanto stopped naval expansion of the Ottomans to the west, Battle of Diu stopped naval expansion of the Ottomans to the east. Diu is why Asia gets screwed over by the colonization of Christians as well as the Muslims (LOL)
Lucy Stephanie
Spoiler alert.
Mark (CG)
Lepanto's just cooler because it's the last major battle between rowing boats. From then on naval battles will be fought with sailing boats.
Mark (CG)
Diu is more of a "haha fuck you rowing boats" because the Christians had sailing boats and they murdered the hell out of the enemy rowing boats
Mark (CG)
Battle of Lepanto 1571 - Ottoman Wars DOCUMENTARY
of course Kings and Generals made a video essay on it. 14 minutes, so you can smash through it quickly enough
Lucy Stephanie
Will watch that after the ones I found.
Lucy Stephanie
16th century seems to be a turning point tlga in history and religion eh. (thinking)
Mark (CG)
your previous plurk is about the 17th century wars though (LOL)
Mark (CG)
The Ottoman Expansion and the stopping of it is definitely important to the whole Muslim vs Christian thing, but the Thirty Years War being a Catholic vs Protestant war is also important. I guess which is more of a turning point depends on the student of history
Mark (CG)
I'm guessing that's the reason the age of Enlightenment happened pretty quickly afterwards. People be like "wtf why are we fighting over religions we're smarter than this" (LOL)
Lucy Stephanie
Well the PH got colonized in the 16th century first, the La Naval battle was when we were already under Spanish rule.
Mark (CG)
That reminds me of the time I googled the battle of manila of the time. Crazy thinking that when the Spaniards invaded, Manila was ruled by a group of leaders of diverse faiths. Muslim, Taoist, Animist.
Mark (CG)
and Manila was a subsidiary of the Sultanate of Brunei (LOL)
Lucy Stephanie
If you look at Europe and the Protestant movement, it starts spreading in the 16th century. And also the spread of Catholicism. So looking at history via the spiritual warfare lens is quite interesting.

Actually if you wanna include St. Paul's evangelizing that goes further back. (LOL) But Europe was quite a hotbed of the religion.
Mark (CG)
Ooooh that reminds me of that youtube short about Ireland and St. Patrick
Mark (CG)
Lucy Stephanie
Lol why what's it abt
Mark (CG)
It's a joke about how St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. For historical accuracy's sake, it's not true that he murdered pagans:
From the badhistory community on Reddit: No, the sto...
Lucy Stephanie
Lucy Stephanie
Mark (CG) : Ei this is better, in terms of animation. haha.
Lepanto 1571: Shattering the Idea of Ottoman Invinci...

Altho ok din ung vid n shinare m.
Lucy Stephanie
Why oh why is there no movie abt such a historical battle? (LOL) Much better pa kesa Napoleon movie.
Mark (CG)
Because it's boring to watch (LOL) Hard to make a naval battle interesting, much less a naval battle involving medieval galleys and galleases
Mark (CG)
If you want Christian/Muslim wars to watch, there's plenty of land warf- wait did you hear that- WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!
Sabaton - Winged Hussars (Music Video)
Lucy Stephanie
Napoleon is boring actually. (LOL)
Lucy Stephanie
I have no idea abt hussars. (LOL) I'm already watching something else.
Mark (CG)
Napoleon has the most important naval battle happen, the Naval battle of Trafalgar where Lord Nelson led the English fleet to victory (and his death) against the combined French/Spanish fleets. Where they took down the world's largest battleship the Spanish Santissima Trinidad
Mark (CG)
Dunno if the movie mentions it. It was in 1805.
Mark (CG)
But yeah that's also gonna be boring to watch if they made a scene of it (LOL)
Lucy Stephanie
Mark (CG) : Nope, only had land wars and sex scenes.
Mark (CG)
Naval battles are boring in the big screen
Lucy Stephanie
They should make it like Pirates of the Caribbean. (LOL)
Mark (CG)
POTC works because it's mostly a 1v1. Even in The World's End you don't actually see the massed naval fleets get into it
Mark (CG)
Like in Trafalgar, how do you as a filmmaker make it interesting to portray the fact that the wind was practically zero and they spent hours getting close to each other at what's essentially a walking pace but with massive ships.
Mark (CG)
in Lepanto how do you make rowing interesting when it's hundreds of rowboats (LOL)
Lucy Stephanie
Well hey that's up to the ones who will make 'em.
Mark (CG)
Winged Hussars. It's the Siege of Vienna. The Ottomans nearly conquered the city (and consequently would open up Europe to further conquest) but then the Polish cavalry the Winged Hussars came down to their aid, in their angelic glory
Mark (CG)
Lucy Stephanie : all I'm saying it's gonna have to be a difficult passion project, and no one who deals in big budget hollywood blockbusters will be into that.
...Except maybe Ridley Scott. And you saw what he did with Napoleon :v
Mark (CG)
https://imgs.plurk.com/QEx/WWB/lOcpHt53Y2DpBpj0UnpVKJZVXyR_lg.jpg Arguably the coolest knights around, since they're angels on horseback (LOL)
Lucy Stephanie
Ok nmn sana ung movie kaso story wise it doesn't have much impact tlga.
Mark (CG)
and they saved Christianity in Vienna, which is why they have a song made by Sabaton (that I linked)
Lucy Stephanie
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