This is absolute erasure and I will not stand for it!
There are knights, vikings AND pirates.
You’re forgetting ancient Egypt and the Samurai.
No cowboys?
Native americans?
Bruce Lee?
Not if you’re in Europe, no.
Hah!
Even I, a mere American, know the fame of Karl May, who wrote of rooting - tooting cowboys and savage Natives in German back in the day!
To say nothing of Sergio Leone and Bud Spenser.
Ok, I guess it’s more of a generational thing.
If you don’t talk about Romans what do you even do in your life.
1930s Germany:
Cossacs as well, they were viewed as christian chivalric order and restoration of knightly tradition (starshyna were in fact szlachta more often than not), they were mercenaries that often fought on the side of ottomans or multiple sides of the same war at the same time and often participated in piracy as well. Also government was sometimes republic with elected monarch, sometimes ‘hereditary’ monarchy, sometimes just republic.
With the Norwegian Crusade there’s no need to choose
despite not being religious, I continously smashed the templar button when I was younger
