Quote Originally Posted by BeeSting
I think those that cry for historical accuracies are simply wanting the kind of contextual challenge people in those days faced, or those things that limited their ability to do the kind of things modern people take for granted like raising a professional army, which really didn't exist in those days.... and given the same premise, you often find yourself repeating history if not doing worse than the actual historical figures.
Honestly a lot of the issues you're looking at as insurmountable limitations were self-imposed, or down to a lack of knowledge...

Assuming you yourself were to travel back in time to do some commanding you should be able to make a credible bid for world domination with even the limited knowledge of an average person of our times.