These weapons coexisted for a long time, so there must have been people who trained to fight each other with them and real fights or duels.
I know the Japanese did a lot of bayonet vs sword but other cultures must have done the same at some point?
>>2695585
Yes, we have tons of 19th century manuals about bayonet fencing, military saber fencing, and doing saber against bayonet fencing. Top of my mind I can think of a dozen or so manuals from the UK, Austria, Prussia, France, Switzerland and Italy.
Here is a PDF of F.C. Christmann's "Schwadronhauen" http://www.fechtsaal.de/media/blogs/de/christmann/Christmann_Anleitung_HauStossFechtens_l.pdf
>check the pictures at the end of the document
>>2695616
interesting, why not put the pictures next to the text rather than loading them on the bottom
here is a rather hackneyed reenactment of of a duel between Kunii Zenya and a US bayonet instructor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjvTOnxDiK4
>>2695585
Italian special forces during WW1 were trained in bayonets and fencing. They were forbidden to use firearms on the attack, only to defend ground
How were soldiers motivated to go to war?
In war bullets can hit you were it really fucking hurts, like your eyes or genitals. Isn't it preferable to simply be executed?
At least you die in a relatively painless and clean way. Having to collect your organs in the chaos of battle doesn't sound nice. And if you are particularly unlucky you are left to die/starve in the middle of nowhere or be tortured to death by your enemies.
There are myriads of unpleasant ways you can die, why not pick the best option and try to hide somewhere and escape the draft? The worst thing that can happen is you get killed in a clean and efficient fashion. Hell I would literally live in the fucking woods and eat frogs to escape the draft.
>>2694764
Duty.
Hatred.
Want for adventure.
>>2694764
>Muh home.
>Muh nation.
>Muh gawd.
>Muh self defense.
>Muh booty.
>Muh I plain fucking hate you guys.
>Muh Ideology.
>Go into battle:
maybe a 2/5 chance you'll die unless it's a suicide charge
>Refuse
100% chance of dying
>real Latin sounds autistic
>dinosaurs had feathers
>Greeks and Romans painted their statues
>you will never live in your favorite time period
Anyone else regret getting into history?
>>2693726
>you will never live in your favorite time period
BUT DUDE! EVERYONE IN HISTORY WAS A SHIT EATING TRANSPHOBIC PEASANT WITH GENITAL WARTS WHO COULD GET BEHEADED FOR SAYING THE EARTH WAS ROUND, WE LITERALLY LIVE IN THE BEST PERIOD IN HISTORY
>>2693726
>Greeks and Romans painted their statues
Wasn't that debunked?
>>2693726
>real latin sounds autistic
Neck yourself.
What is so great about 50s era? or it is just an overhyped meme?
>>2692576
Last decade where strong families and community were valued
>>2692576
yes and no
the rest of the world was basically bombed to smithereens and caused an artificial labor shortage, the "I painted garages all summer and paid for college out of pocket" and "I worked in a factory and made enough for a house, a spouse, 2.1 kids and a dog" effect that suckers the right and the left alike in America
crime and "degeneracy" (births out of wedlock, teen pregnancy, STDs, cretinism, lead poisoning, genuine political subversion and racial violence) were unmistakably worse in the 50s, but the economy and Jello industry was booming so hard it's easy to look over in retrospect
Post-war prosperity with booming industrial economy meant even proles could have well-paying jerbs and start families.
Why didn't we hang the fucking traitors?
>>2691223
Because the south is the last place in America with a culture, and you don't want to lose that.
>>2691223
I agree. We should have hung the treacherous northerners who tried to undermine the constitution and expand the power of the federal government.
>>2691223
because the people who actually suffered and sacrificed to defeat the "traitors" weren't a tenth as bloodthirsty as your garden variety perfidious Red.
Feel free to contribute any historical photographs you like.
Any period is welcome.
>One of the last surviving veterans of the Napoleonic Wars photographed in full uniform in 1858.
>Austrian woman searches for her son amid POWs returning from the Soviet Union.
>>2687480
>A disabled Austrian veteran returns home.
>>2687484
>A mother looks for her missing son at Friedland Refugee Camp in 1955.
Who is your favourite woman of history?
>>2683959
Mary obvs.
the only answer
Æthelflæd is up there for sure.
>>2682690
As a chicagoer I can say that the confederate battle flag was aesthetic af
>>2682690
The confeds were fucking dumb, but they sure as hell had good taste in flags
Honestly wish we picked up a design like this
I love the flag of the venetian republic
In these charged times (and by that I mean the abundance of angry shitposting online) I keep seeing this claim the western world was built upon Christianity, however I am no academic when it comes to western history and Google is no help. So, is it truth or shitty meme?
>>2701324
It absolutely was built on Christianity. You are probably not finding a lot of info about it because its such a blatantly obvious fact its not even worth discussing.
>>2701324
It's what is called a subjective claim with no right answer.
Genghis Kahn is still treated as a national hero in Mongolia and no one gives a dip, while Hitler is hated on so bad over here
what's up with that?
Genghis Khan is 800 years old
Hitler died only 72 years ago. He also lost.
>>2698308
Ghengis Khan was born like 900 centuries ago while Hitler was died just a few decades back. We can clearly still see Hitler's rampage in the world while anybody who suffered under Ghengis Khan kicked the bucket as did their great-great grand children.
Not to mention our moral values have improved.
Ghengis was actually successful, people don't usually make failures out as national heroes
How come Africa's jungle people get so much more negative attention than South America's?
>>2698117
because south america's are qt caramel colored people
>>2698117
citation on "Africa's jungle people get so much more negative attention" please?
>>2698117
Most of them stopped having shitty wars & civil wars save for those idiots in the Venezuela/Colombia region.
Why do European-Americans force whiteness on East Africans? Even Sudanese and haritins?
Watch the video. It is concerning.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xTKBaIUtqcY
>>2697218
MENA folks actually fought heavily for the opportunity to be legally classified as "white", because back then that classification provided concrete benefits.
European Americans don't do it. The goverment does. The American people never had a popular vote on who is White or not and if it was up to me MENA and East Africa would not be classified the same as Europeans.
>>2697223
Watch the video.
what did they think of each other?
Neither directly connected.
Both did send diplomatic missions to each other.
Rome saw it as this massive rich kingdom in the east, past the Persians.
China saw it as 'another China'.
One Chinese explorer went to try and find them, got to the Sassassinds/Persians, then the camel fuckers went 'Yeah no there's a massive ocean between our lands and there's, it would take decades to cross is'. So the Chinese guy went home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLr6aNwLvw
>>2697228
>One Chinese explorer went to try and find them, got to the Sassassinds/Persians, then the camel fuckers went 'Yeah no there's a massive ocean between our lands and there's, it would take decades to cross is'. So the Chinese guy went home.
irl shitposting used to be so easy
Stupid or ludicrous history related things you were told in school. I go first:
>Rome fell because of lead plumbing
>The Illiad is a story about a man called The Odyssey
>>2693772
care to elaborate more on the lead plumbing, sounds hilarious.
>>2693799
not him, but some people suggest that the high lead content (which causes lots of health issues, among them mental) was pretty damning.
There's probably an argument to be made seeing as the Romans used lead to sweeten their fucking wine, but that Rome fell from it is pushing it. Also I forget the details, but apparently a layer of something else forms quite quickly inside lead pipes which blocks the actual lead from getting into the water supply too much.
>The lighter skinned countries are more functional
>The lighter skinned groups did the bulk of advances for actual civilization. With the likes of the Egyptians having ancestry from Eurasia
What's the deal?
>>2701606
Is this a meme? Since when did skin color = iq? If that was the case black albinos would be by far the smartest group in Africa.
what went so right in sierra leone?
>>2701616
> Since when did skin color = iq?
Since the most intelligent groups were light or mixed (at best).
>If that was the case black albinos would be by far the smartest group in Africa.
Neither Euros or East Asians are albinos. Try again, SJW.