Theoretically assuming Darius the Great didn't die in 488 BC, how could he have done things differently with his planned second invasion of Greece?
Also curiously, how would've, if he had been in the same scenario, would Cyrus the Great deal with the mainland Greeks in Europe vs Darius the Great and Xerxes attempts?
>>2721632
*486 BC
Mixed up my date there.
Xerxes' big strategic error was not besieging Athens after his defeat at Salamis, as the defeat was in no way decisive and it wouldn't have taken a large army to do so. Darius seems to have been a more apt strategician, so he probably could have realized that and may have annexed European Greece. Cyrus would have probably considered them pointless people from the boonies and expanded farther Eastward to India
>>2721656
>Xerxes' big strategic error was not besieging Athens after his defeat at Salamis,
uwotm8? Athens had already been taken and burned to the ground before Salamis.
>>2721632
To be honest, probably not that much different. Unless he's willing to come west personally, he's probably just going to be handing the campaign off to some general/warlord. The Persian system of fighting just didn't work that well in Greece, and the only way the Persians were likely to win would be to play the game they would start to do later; pay Greeks off so they spend all their time fighting against each other. Maybe he'd have done it, but maybe not.
www.aryanism.net
Anyone else have some crazy revisionist sites? (Now low hanging fruit like commie teenagers trying to deny the holodomor, or t*rks denying the Armenian genocide). This one claims that Hitler and the NSDAP were in fact multiracialists who wanted to mix all 'noble' people of the world to make the new superman.
>>2721554
Not*
http://aryanism.net/politics/multiethnic-society/is-race-the-new-class/
It's true
I have to write a short paper on Alexander Hamilton, and I'm out of time! Come to my aid, anons of 4chan!
>>2721454
something something whore and a Scotsman
>>2721454
bit of a cunt, jefferson and him feuded all the fucking time, essentially controlled most of washington's cabinet, was responsible for adams losing his election (and thus jefferson winning lel)
you should touch on his bastard upbringing, his role in the war, the federalist papers, his role as treasury sec, his role in forming the military, his role as a leader of the Federalist party, his role in controlling Adams' administration from the outside, his role in getting rekt by Aaron Burr
/b/ shit like this should be a bannable offense.
How was news evolved over the years?
>>2721341
From honest to fake.
>>2721341
The press has always been sensational but the 24\HR cycle and the death of the newspaper are driving people away in droves.
>>2722048
>He doesn't know about Yellow Journalism.
It was much more worse, anon.
So Star Citizen recently went into more detail on the background of one of the game's alien species known as Banu. They are a merchant-focused species that are nomadic and styled after Bedouin people. One major complaint I've had about them is their history, which is why I brought this topic up here. Quote:
>The background of the Banu is very tricky because we focused in on this idea that they have no real sense of history and that that hasn't held a lot of importance to them so they don't care who invented the merchantman(a type of spaceship they often use) they just care that the merchantman is a ship that works and is effective at what it does. They retain the instruction manual of how to design and build one but they couldn't care less that so and so built it in whatever year on this place because of this reason. It holds no interest to them.
>If they were viewing, like, American history, the walkaway for them would be that America is a country. They wouldn't care that it used to be part of Britain because that doesn't matter anymore because its not a part of Britain anymore and they wouldn't care if this is the independence year because it's independent what difference does it make when it happened.
>So it's about boiling it down to the important facts that they pass on so their history is more like a series of manuals than it is a timeline recording and because of that its been very difficult for humans to have pieced together the Banu history before they met them.
>The big aspect of the thing is that its about accruing stuff. So accruing stuff means you've lived a full life you've been a lot of places you've met a lot of people you've done a lot of things
>its very about living in the present.
I find this inconsistent at best and just plain stupid at worst. My question to you is this: "Is it remotely possible for any sentient species of spacefaring beings to be able to exist considering this philosophy? Or is this just laziness on the part of the writers?"
>>2721178
I don't see a problem. An alien society would likely value different things than a human society would anyway.
Humans place a lot of value upon their history, but that doesn't necessarily mean an alien race would. Even different human cultures on earth place value upon the concept of history to varying degrees.
>>2721211
I guess what I'm saying is that I don't see how a group of people with such a limited spectrum worldview would be able to get much further than feudal society.
It sounds like they all have memory loss issues. But maybe its just that they are super apathetic. In which case they would quickly lose track of why they are at the place they are in history and start trying things over again that have already been proven to be a failure. Like communism.
>>2721231
Just because they have a limited worldview doesn't mean they are unmotivated in their efforts towards working for their immediate/future goals as a race.
>terrible fashion
>terrible aesthetics in general, puke green and orange brown everywhere
>insane crime rates
>widespread drug addiction
>urban decay to the point where every large city resembled Detroit
>stagflation
>widespread communist terrorism and rampant street violence
>china tier pollution
>fictional works of art such as movies and books are dystopian
Why were the 70's so shitty, what went wrong? Excellent music though.
It's was basically the start of modern leftist politics started to take root in the U.S.
>Higher taxes
>Higher inflation
>Starting to see the after effects of welfare
>Increased regulations
>Manufacturing jobs starting to be outsourced
>PC view on crime
>>2720915
>Why was x so shitty?
Because you're focusing on the aspects you think are shitty.
>>2721103
>more government = Left
Americans can be so retarded.
WHY IN CIVIL WAR SHIELDS AREN'T USED WHEN THEY ATTACK THAT FORT IT THE SMART NEGROS WHY IN WW2 WHEN THEY EMBARK ON THE BEACH THEY HAD NO SHIELDS AND HALF MEN DIED WHY IN MODERN AGE EVERYONE FOGOT THAT SHIELD EXISTED IT WOULD BE SO USEFUL THIS IS SOME NEXT LEVEL NAIVETY
Large shields are a major loss of mobility, soldiers are already carrying lots of equipment & sometimes body armor.
A full-body shield enlarges your profile, and makes it more difficult to conceal one's self
Trenches, encampments, using other cover serve the same purpose.
Asymmetric warfare makes classical formations and tactics obsolete. Shields don't protect from drone strikes, nor do they protect from viet cong booby traps and surprise attacks.
Shrapnel from explosives can get around shields, not all potential damage comes from straight on.
>>2720860
Excuse me, I couldn't hear you over the sound of what the fuck you were saying.
>>2720860
>WW2 WHEN THEY EMBARK ON THE BEACH
Yeah, good luck carrying shields that are capable of stopping 1200 7.92×57mm Mauser rounds per minute.
Daily reminder that all is vanity.
Your bible is fanfiction
>>2720806
Go back to you villa Gelimer
all is narcissism
When did people start distinguishing between "just" and "unjust" wars and determining what counts as a justification for a war?
The oldest account of that I know of is from Livy ~2000 years ago who said something along the lines of "To those whom war is necessary it is just." Do you guys know any that predate that?
I managed to find an earlier account by Cicero https://satyagraha.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/cicero-on-just-war-theory/
>For since there are two ways of settling a dispute: first, by discussion; second, by physical force; and since the former is characteristic of man, the latter of the brute, we must resort to force only in case we may not avail ourselves of discussion.
>The only excuse, therefore, for going to war is that we may live in peace unharmed; and when the victory is won, we should spare those who have not been blood-thirsty and barbarous in their warfare.
>But when a war is fought out for supremacy and when glory is the object of war, it must still not fail to start from the same motives which I said a moment ago were the only righteous grounds for going to war. But those wars which have glory for their end must be carried on with less bitterness.
Second paragraph of this excerpt of Thucydides from the Athenian declaration of war against Sparta has some relevance to the thread.
Also i'd like to add that I love the subtle dig the speaker takes at the Spartans implying that they have absolutely no chance of defeating them.
It doesn't predate it, but a lot of our current ideas of just war come from Augustine.
Are we currently living in the most uncertains times of the last 2000 years but due to technology people can't see it ?
Some arguments :
-Desertification of the country side, 85% of humans in the western world now live in huge cities.
-govs let huge paralleles societies with differents sets of ethics and values prosper in suburbs and cities, usually way poorer.
-political polarization due to more and more compartimenzed news informations.
-Society as a whole have less and less a common vision of history and the futur, nations can't run in the long run on self-hatred or ressentiment.
-these huges megalopolis are time bombs in a case of major natural disaster or fucked up. I can't imagine a city of the size of NY or London running an entire week without power and making it without scratchs.
Our biology is ancient, our institutions medieval, and our technology god like.
You have a good point the biggest flaw of the west is having democratic institutions who run like centuries ago, unable to make quick decisions or face new challenges.
>>2720476
This is anxiety
Leave the Red Army to me.
>>2720426
No. Leave them to me.
I wanna give him a kiss :3
>>2720436
:3
>B-Basiliscus-senpai, c-can you attack the V-vandals for me UwU?
>>2720412
>the Roman Empire fell because the emperor stopped fuxking Pepin after feeling Pepin's meaty bulge
>Hey Constantine, what'd you do, get a haircut or something?
>LOOK CLOSER, HOSIUS
>Oh, I know what it is, you're the biggest man in the world now. And you're covered in bronze!
>GILDED BRONZE!
>TAKE A HIKE, MAXENTIUS. I'M RUNNING THINGS NOW.
>All hail Imperator Constantinvs!
He looks like he has Down Syndrome.
How accurate is this chart?
>>2720344
It's based off a far more popular image that itself is a misrepresentation of evolution, so not very.
The neanderthal with arthritis was a neanderthal with arthritis, not a homo sapien with arthritis.
How the h*ck did they conquer half the known world?
>>2720289
Theye were Greeks, now they are Slavs
>>2720289
Why do you keep making this thread?
>>2720289
They knew very little of the world.
Was the japanese navy better than the royal navy during WW2?
They barely fought, and the UK had bigger problems in Europe, but considering the strength of the UK always lied in its navy, it really feels they underperformed.
>>2720264
Legitimately interested, bumping
>>2720264
They were much, much better in carrier ops. Which is all that would really matter on their most probable battleground. On the other hand, they sucked shit at anti-submarine warfare. Basically both navies were good instruments for the wars they had to fight.
>>2720264
Have to bump