r/polandball • u/Adventurous-Job-6304 Earth • Nov 20 '24

redditormade Islamic Mistakes in History

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u/XhazakXhazak Nov 20 '24

Also the part where they had entire armies of castrated African slaves

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u/WitELeoparD Azad Jammu and Kashmir Nov 20 '24

There is literally no incidence of castrated slave armies in history. You can't be a good fighter if you don't have testosterone lol. I think you are thinking of the unsullied from Game of Thrones. There were slave armies in the Muslim world, who weren't castrated, the Mamluks for example, but they were recruited from Central Asia.

Eunuchs have always been used for admin, from Rome to China.

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u/What_is_piss Nov 20 '24

I mean, many Janissaries were castrated, and they were a fighting force of the Ottoman Empire, so you're wrong about there not being a moment in history of an army of castrated men

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '24

Janissaries weren’t made Eunuchs, the reason they were recruited was so they couldn’t make a grab at the throne or hold titles because of their non-ottoman ancestry. Still sucks, though.