Why do countries with the most openly sexual societies have the lowest birth rates while countries with the most repressed sexualities have the highest birth rates?
>>2838865
Desensitisation and the eventual death of love
>>2838865
It's not a rule, though. Take a look at Polan or European Russia.
It's more about expectations of society and money required to properly raise a family.
People generally use contraceptives when engaging in libertine sexual behavior and generally don't when rearing a family.
It's really not that complicated.
This was entirely justified.
Bokassa I, my emperor.
>>2838675
HE WUZ EMPEROR
he lived the dream
>>2839779
No.
He was THE emperor.
God tier history podcast thread
So why do you like that podcast?
I tried listening to this podcast but I just can't stand the guy's voice. Really interesting asides from that though
Dan Carlin is really interesting to listen to, worth the money imo
*opens your country*
>>2838485
*opens your continent*
>>2838512
*opens your moon*
>>2838485
*opens your anus*
>Negroes and Whiteys going We Wuz Egyptians
>Palestinifags, Negroes, and pol going We Wuz Hebrews (For the record, the Hebrews were like modern Samaritians)
>We Nords Wuz Greeks
All beaten. So what's left?
>>2838297
I literally met the most European looking Turk once who tried convincing me he was Asian.
It was a 4chan meme come into life and I didn't know what the fuck to say.
>>2838297
The king Tut was white and this is a scientific fact.
>Hebrews are Samaritans
No. Samaritans are mix of messopotamians and Jews. Hebrew are Jews.
Let's start a thread about the opium wars.
A general dicussion about the events and who it still affects us today.
Also opiums influence in the history of man
>>2838226
>implying it was about tea
Tea was just a proxy for a much larger issues: trade, monopolies, access to the Chinese market, economic sovereignty and show of power
>>2838253
True that
>>2838213
The Opium wars is the first time Britain really claimed world dominance, and the first time that Chinese dominance in the east was overthrown. It fucked up China's reputation and standing badly, so much so that Japan started to lean towards the west instead of China - Thus partly triggering their Meiji restoration and their rapid industrialization
Was Hannibal Barca the greatest military commander in history?
>>2838150
>Hannibal
>a nigger
Nice bait m8, here's your (You)
Indeed, so powerful was he that he tore open a portal in the space-time continuum, which he travelled through, converted to Christianity, and stole a 5th century Roman centurion's helmet.
>>2838150
No he clearly was not
*blocks your passover*
>>2838063
Ask him, "Did you just poop your pants?"
>>2838140
He don't speak English you numbnut.
>>2838614
"Hast du in deiner Hose Scheiße?"
Why is colonialsm and imperialism thougth to be so much worse than any other conquest?
>>2837822
> Why is colonialsm and imperialism thougth to be so much worse than any other conquest?
Qualitatively, no, it isn't that much worse. However, when "quantity" is accounted for, all the little indignities are sufficient to add up to a giant horror story - the processes of colonialism and imperialism as we are familiar with in a Modern Era context enabled the rise of not only one, but multiple empires - Britain, France, Spain, Portugal.
It's not the individual acts carried out by colonialist powers, it's the sheer quantity of it - think of all the atrocities of the Mongols, except carried out be multiple empires. By the end of the 19th Century, there hardly were any indepedent non-European states left.
because it was largely used to funnel resources out of the colonies to enrich people not living there.
Everyone masturbates over roads and railways but they weren't used to connect population centres but for resource extraction. Former empires would always settle and assimilate into the local society but colonialism always maintained that distance while harping on about moral superiority.
>>2837858
There were hardly any independent European nations left too. Most of different ethnicities and nstions were absorbed into the imperialist powers. This is also why it really grinds my gears when people talk about EUROPEAN cololnial atrocities, as if the Polish, Slovak, Hungarian or Finnish etc. were complicit in them.
ITT: cool historical constructions that were never useful
>>2837808
>great tv set
>not useful
Fort Boyard paid for itself many times.
>>2837808
Some nigga hasn't been watching Fort Boyard has he now?
What was their fucking problem?
>Declares war on Albania and got their teeth kicked in.
>Years later they think of Albania as their ally.
It`s like they switch sides whenever they feel like it.
>>2837792
>army gets ass kicked in almost every Venetian-Ottoman war
>navy absolutely wrecks Ottoman navy in two separate naval encounters over a century apart (Gallipoli and Lepanto)
They knew their way around a boat
>Borgia Papacy takes over Romagna through kicking out the former lords by invasion
>new pope dismisses the Borgia general of the Papal States army, dies shortly after
>new pope imprisons him because why not
>tries to maintain control of Romagna, some local lords don't want to be part of the Papal States (too religious I guess)
>offer control of their coastal cities to Venice for free, Venice accepts
>the pope is not happy
>Venice offers to say the cities are controlled by the Papal States and pay annual tribute, but Venice will still control the cities
>pope isn't having this shit
>brokers an alliance with France and the Holy Roman Empire against Venice
>falls apart due to royal bullshit
>Venice abandons some of the cities in the meantime
>Pope is still not happy and now most of Romagna is operating independently
>conquers the rest again, they will be ruled by the pope and they will like it
>Gets the Holy Roman Emperor to agree to a sneak attack on Venice
>HRE strolls down to the Papal States for a coronation, then veers into Venetian territory for a nice invasion
>first attack fails, second attack fails so badly they lose allied territory somehow
>pope is furious
>pic related
ITT people that were always one step ahead of everyone else
>>2837532
>people that were always one step ahead of everyone else
Not towards the end of his life.
>>2837532
>>2837594
I was about him. So fare ahead nobody could follow in his footsteps.
What word would people use to refer to the people of Europe before said name was formally adopted?
Or was it already widely used before it was given to it officially?
Christendom
>>2837463
Sounds about right actually. Completely forgot about that.
>>2837449
Depends on the locale
>Islamic World
Ferenggi.
>East Asia
Hongmao/Angmo
Chinese word for "Barbarians."
Ferenggi/Farang/Folangqi/Furanki.
General /his/tory meme thread
>>2837376
Bumping.
I thought this could be your waifu /his/
She totally digs knowledge and is very shy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ZJ5BVA44k
>>2836578
Because the last time a board on 4chan found a girlfriend it went fantastic
>>2836676
Holy shit this is so sad.
>dat accent
No