Was the Reconquista justified?
Why did Galicia split from Portugal?
>>2745213
They were never part of Portugal.
>>2745213
It was Portugal that split from Galicia. Portugal was Galicia's vassal state.
This is actually aesthetic
>>2741259
Pretty impressive considering where they are. Then again I thought dar al islam was supposed to be this big unifying force of wealth and power. Is this mosque recent or what?
>>2741267
>The first mosque on the site was built around the 13th century, but the current structure dates from 1907.
>le untrained peasant horde meme
Why is it so difficult to understand that all able-bodied men in Soviet union were conscripted for 2 to 5 years since 1939?
noice
>>2756412
>all able-bodied men
Impossible, we're talking about tens of millions in Soviet case.
Not much of entire population is ever mobilized, not even in large wars. General rule is that a country should be able to mobilize maximum 10% of its whole population in case of war.
By 1945 it was mostly Mongolian rapists.
>We may observe, that the use of [machines] in the field gradually became more prevalent, in proportion as personal valour and military skill declined with the Roman empire.
>When men were no longer found, their place was supplied by machines.
Was he right?
>>2756166
>Gibbon
>right about anything
>>2756166
Daily reminder swords, spears, bows & arrows, clubs, and maces are all machines.
Obviously we must go back to the valorous days of biting, scratching, gouging, kicking and punching each other.
>Gibbon
No wonder.
Well, no, he's operating on a false premise to start with.
>as personal valour and military skill declined with the Roman empire.
This didn't happen. In fact you could argue it's the opposite of the truth, given that small-scale skirmishes were a lot more common, "personal valour" became more important. I personally wouldn't make that argument but you could. Gibbon is wrong in any case, though.
when did this board even get created?
and whats the difference between it and pol or x or some shit
fuck you
its january
>>2755612
It's like /pol/ and /x/ with a more historical tinge to it.
I was born Jewish it has always bothered me that shitler and the rest of the fuckers hated only us the jews.
The reason shitler and rest of the german fuckers hated us was because we didn't look "germanic" with blue eyes and blonde hair and the "roman " nose.
No because last time I checked the fucking japanese look all "germanic" , with every japanese person being blonde with blue eyes and a straight "roman" nose.
Look at the japnase emperor and tell me if he looks "germanic" , and does he have a blonde hair and blue eyes and a straight "roman" nose.
And all chinese, and africans, and arabs are all blondes with blue eyes, and a straight" "roman" nose.
>>2755415
ban this faggot pls
>>2755415
They didn't hate you because you looked germanic, they hated you because you were responsible for socialism and the defeat of germany in world war one or something like that.
Also, is this a fresh new meme 2k17?
>>2755418
answer me.
Why did hate us but salivated at the sight of every japanese ?!?!?!
Before the advent of printed pornography, what did men do when they wanted to wank? Did they just go the brothel every time they were horny?
Inb4 "Le imagination" meme
They used a mirror to look at their own asses.
>>2755403
they closed their eyes and thought about their qt queen.
>>2755412
/thread
Is Donal Kagan's history of the Peloponessian War the most definitive there currently is?
Who cares
>>2755157
I do
Over-glorified researcher who was a progenitor of neo-conservatism and proof that nepotism pervades academia and politics.
>actually, the burning down of the Library of Alexandria did not set back knowledge
>actually, the medieval period was not a time of stagnation for science
>actually, the Civil War was not fought over states' rights
Why have people on the internet become obsessed with correcting 'bad history'?
Because people like to be right, especially if it happens to be unpopular and if conforms to their beliefs.
>>2755091
Because if it's incorrect, it's just fiction.
>>2755091
The internet. It's such an overwhelming source of information that it has literally overloaded everyone, and with services like google who "narrow" your search to fit your perceptions, it's inevitable that different views on something will be harder to disprove.
When did invasions by barbarian hordes cease to be a legitimate threat to civilized states?
Honestly, only by the late 1800s or so. Russia was still having trouble with steppe nomads until well after modernization under Peter.
barbarians settle down eventually
Hand held firearms vastly changed the power gradient between sedentary cultures and nomadic ones.
Before them, it was extremely hard to deal with horse archers.
The last really big example I can think of where a civilized society was overrun by nomads was the Mogul Conquest of India, although I'm sure some more knowledgeable anon will correct me.
How true is this?
>>2754976
Fairly accurate, but the backlash from the Germans went beyond justice into revenge and murder. Of course the Poles inflated the numbers of victims but there were definite murders.
>literally using a youtube comment to start a thread
Kill yourself.
>>2754976
>Bloody Sunday (German: Bromberger Blutsonntag; Polish: Krwawa niedziela) was a sequence of events that took place in Bydgoszcz (German: Bromberg), a Polish city with a sizable German minority, between 3 and 4 September 1939, immediately after the German invasion of Poland.
>immediately after the german invasion of poland
LMAO stormfags at it again
Is this the biggest overreaction in history?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe_murder_incident
>Operation Paul Bunyan was carried out on August 21 at 07:00, three days after the killings. A convoy of 23 American and South Korean vehicles ("Task Force Vierra", named after Lieutenant Colonel Victor S. Vierra, commander of the United States Army Support Group) drove into the JSA without warning to the North Koreans, who had one observation post manned at that hour. In the vehicles were two eight-man teams of military engineers (from the 2nd Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division) equipped with chain-saws to cut down the tree.
>These teams were accompanied by two 30-man security platoons from the Joint Security Force, who were armed with pistols and axe handles. The 2nd Platoon secured the northern entrance to the JSA via the Bridge of No Return, while the 3rd Platoon secured the southern edge of the area.
>Concurrently, a team from B Company, commanded by Captain Walter Seifried, had activated the detonation systems for the charges on Freedom Bridge and had the 165mm main gun of the M728 combat engineer vehicle aimed mid-span to ensure that the bridge would fall should the order be given for its destruction. Also, B Company, supporting E Company (bridge), were building M4T6 rafts on the Imjin River should the situation require emergency evacuation by that route.
>In addition, a 64-man South Korean Special Forces company accompanied them, armed with clubs and trained in Tae Kwon Do, supposedly without firearms. However, once they parked their trucks near the Bridge of No Return, they started throwing out the sandbags that lined the truck bottoms, and handing out M16 rifles and M79 grenade launchers that had been concealed below. Several of the special forces men also had M18 Claymore mines strapped to their chests with the firing mechanism in their hands, and were shouting at the North Koreans to cross the bridge.
>A U.S. Infantry company in 20 utility helicopters and seven Cobra attack helicopters circled behind them. Behind these helicopters, B-52 Stratofortresses, which some described as "nuclear ready" came from Guam escorted by U.S. F-4 Phantom IIs from Kunsan Air Base and South Korean F-5 and F-86 fighters were visible flying across the sky at high altitude. At Taegu Air Base, F-111 bombers of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing out of Mountain Home Air Force Base, were stationed, and F-4 Phantoms C and D from the 18th TFW Kadena Air Base and Clark Air Base were also deployed. The aircraft carrier USS Midway task force had also been moved to a station just offshore.
>Near the edges of the DMZ, many more heavily armed U.S. and South Korean infantry, artillery including the Second Battalion, 71st Air Defense Regiment armed with Improved Hawk missiles, and armor were waiting to back up the special operations team. Bases near the DMZ were prepared for demolition in the case of a military response. The defense condition (DEFCON) was elevated on order of General Stilwell, as recounted in Colonel De LaTeur's research paper later. In addition, 12,000 additional troops were ordered to Korea, including 1,800 Marines from Okinawa.[6] During the operation, nuclear-capable strategic bombers circled over the JSA. According to an intelligence analyst monitoring the North Korea tactical radio net, the accumulation of force "blew their... minds".
>Altogether, Task Force Vierra consisted of 813 men: almost all of the men of the United States Army Support Group, of which the Joint Security Force was a part; a South Korean reconnaissance company; a South Korean Special Forces company which had infiltrated the river area by the bridge the night before; and members of a reinforced composite rifle company from the 9th Infantry Regiment. In addition to this force, every UNC force in the rest of South Korea was on battle alert.
All this over a fucking tree.
>>2754968
Not really. It was quite clever from a military standpoint.
War is like sex.
It's all about communication.
it was swapped with the Olympic for an insurance claim, they even have video proof of the ship rotting underneath the ocean where the fake riveted letters for "titantic" have fallen off and they see "MP" underneath
JP Morgan himself got a massive payout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRvMPc1KuJQ
Dude could fucking stab sharks with that face
>>2754829
I enjoy this theory because it's assuming Olympic and Titanic were identical both inside and out.
Which is not true.
>>2754831
except he points that out, the window layouts, the permanent lean which passengers noted
they talk about the decorations being exactly the same, only rugs added to "titantic" at the last second
also the fact that video under the water shows the riveted letters that have fallen off and the real letters which were on the actual metal underneath
as well as the undercoating which is grey and only Olympic had grey undercoat
they also can see the propeller serial number which was the one replaced on the Olympic after it was hit by the battle cruiser, also the underneath re-enforcement
USA Actions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified? Or There was another peaceful Solution to end the conflict?
>>2754637
>America should have backed out of the war and dropped everything on Moscow.
The existence of america is yet to be justified.
>>2754637
Anyone who has sympathy for Japan in WW2 is a fucking idiot.
What do you guys think is the appropriate way to deal with someone in an argument/informal debate who is trying to 'bury you with the burden of proof'. What I mean by that is that they are essentially trying to win an argument by forcing you to come up with sources for every little claim and then attempting to discredit you when you can't site it in person, or aren't willing to do tons of footwork on an internet forum. I am noticing this more and more as a tactic used by people when they want to counter you.
ignore them.
If you are making a claim, you are the one who has to source it
>why can't I just say whatever I want in an argument and have people accept it at face value?
lol
but you should have a source for every claim you make that is based on one. what are you, just making shit up?