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Why was Italy?

>>2691852
Germany declaring war on the US was the excuse for the US to declare war on Germany

>>2691852
They just declared they wouldn't attack each other for 10 years.

Also the Gallowglass are norse-gaels for anyone wondering about the relevance of the pic

can you post wiki link

>>2692352

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelanders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islanders

The Serbs fucked it up again.

>>2691706
Because Germany completely botched it's relationship with Russia and Britain, and they used an anarcho-nationalist incident within Austria to act like a bull in a china shop, and turn a regional conflict that could have easily been resolved peacefully into a world war.

>>2691661
Only anally.

>>2691661
Well, if they were naturally polygamous, they wouldn't be jealous of their other partner fucking the main partner. Or atleast that's how I would imagine it? Idk.

>>2691661
Ideally, yes.

Practically, no.

-men averaged around 163-165cm in height and likely weighed 50-60 kilos
-90% of people living in small cities / towns (like many in rural regions like Thessaly or Epirus) had residences / houses in side the the city-walls; for midsize cities (Phocis, Plataea, Locris) , it was over 2/3s; for large cities (Megera, Argos, Thebes) it over 50%; for the largest (Athens, Syracuse, and Corinth) it was less than 50%
-most meals consisted of different kinds of porridge and bread, and sometimes veggies. Meat was commonly only ate at festivals (which there were a lot)
-slaves made up a large population in the more larger states, but the more rural ones (Thessaly, Macedon, Crete, and Sparta) had peasants, which were typically better off legally (except for maybe helots).
-inequality worsened the more rural the State is. Larger states typically would go out and look to build overseas colonies if their city was getting too over-populated and stressed by social inequality, that way a lot of poor citizens could move there and get land, while enjoying some protection from their home-State
-most slaves worked in agriculture, but it depends on how you define 'farmer'. Do you mean farmer, as in someone who owns a farm? In that case, most farmers at-least owned a few slaves for laborers and basically acted like foremen most of the time.

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Excluding modern medicine and other modern things, not that much different. Higher chance you would serve in the military. Higher chance you would go see a play as well!

>>2691560
looks like whiterun desu

>>2691486
nah I don't think we would have

I don't know what role france played because I was never taught it in school

>>2691486
Hard to say. Britain is ultimately a pragmatic sort of imperialist, and it was costing a hell of a lot more than the colonies were getting them to keep tens of thousands of troops there more or less indefinitely.

On the other hand, colonial resistance probably wouldn't have been indefinate, and certainly wouldn't have had the sort of open, direct confrontational and successful methods that the American revolution historically had. A lot of it comes down to things like commitment of individual polities, and even-sub polities, and that's hard to measure. There's also the very real possibility of both sides blinking, and some sort of deal wherein the Americans have some but not total self-rule.

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>>2691455
off the Tarpeian rock you go faggot

I know what I'm going to masturbate to tonight.

>>2691469
Ahhhhh...
Simpler times.

Nope. Scipio.

>>2691292
Beating Germanic tribals to the point of genocide > Carthaginians.

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>defeating unwashed barbarians because you aren't an inbred incompetent like you predecessors
>everybody worships you for some reason
Shameful, Rome really went to the dogs before and after pic related.

>>2691255
Seeing so much of them remain what do you think?

>>2691255
Pretty good actually when William the Conqueror encountered the fortifications of Londinium he was forced to make a deal with the defenders rather than risk being fucked up in an open assault or a siege. Hence the stupidity that is the City of London is still loosely defined by the confines of those very fortifications

>>2691255
Roman fortifications advanced quite a bit after the crisis of the third century. Most stuff built before 270 AD. was not meant to resist long sieges and wouldn't look that impressive to Medieval folks.

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>>2691220
Andrew Jacksons, dog

>>2691225

While Jackson did expand the country, it was just "filling in the map". I was thinking more in the overseas territories, involvement on the world stage type stuff.

>>2691220
>Plus he was a NEW YORKAH.
He was born in Niles, Ohio and lived practically his entire life in the state.

Am I misunderstanding your post or what?

No because the khazaria theory is anti semitic bullshit.

>>2691204
you the antisemetic one, just because theyre mongols they arent less jewish

>>2691204
Is it though? I am not antisemitic btw, I've heard this argument a few times

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Austria a shit.

>Austrian retards thought Italy was really on their side after they had just come out of a bloody war with them

Their fault desu.

>>2691193
They never thought they were on their side, they just thought they'd stay neutral. The only person surprised by the 'betrayal' was Conrad. Germany for the first year of the knew Italy would join the Entente and suggested Italy give the Italian majority lands to the Italians in return for a steady neutrality or lite alliance.

But you get to live in Weimar era America right now.

>>2691131
>ywn starve to death with fear of getting beaten either by nazis or commies
It was shit

>>2691136
kek

>>2691122
The system of tributary states that existed centered around the various Chinese dynasties for much of East Asia's history is much better understood as a recognition of China's hegemony over the world as they understood it rather than say a "colony" or "puppet state"'of a sort. At least for Korea's example, the system primarily consisted of Koreans officials bringing yearly gifts, or "tributes" (which were substantial) to the imperial court, which was followed by the Chinese court sending goods of their own to Korea as reward, which were oftentimes even more substantial than the original tributes themselves! The rare time when the imperial court did actually invest itself deep into Korea's political affairs was during the Yuan Dynasty, as the Mongols had repeatedly invaded and defeated the Goryeo dynasty in multiple wars prior. The Yuan Dynasty installed its own offices in Korea's capital to keep a careful watch on the kingdom's court affairs and instituted a system of royal marriages in which Korean kings would marry daughters of Mongol emperors, such that the Korean court would be tied to Beijing both politically and by blood kinship. The names of Korean kings during this period were forced to have the prefix "Chung-" (meaning loyalty) to demonstrate their loyalty to the Yuan court, whereas kings from other periods generally usually used what is called a "temple name," which by tradition was only allowed for emperors but was knowingly ignored by various Korean courts. However, even relations between Korea and Yuan wasn't always so bad, and Korean kings at one point were granted titular fief over the "Kingdom of Shenyang" (modern Liaoning). Back to the topic of Korea as a tributary state, it is useful to understand that diplomacy in historical East Asia generally did not consist of nominally equal sovereign states holding embassies in other nations.

>>2691135
Unified Chinese dynasties were generally preeminent political, economic, cultural, and military superpowers of that "world," and diplomacy operated with implicit and explicit recognition of China as essentially the "center of the world." It was this recognition of primacy in the pecking order that China demanded from Korea and other tributary states, and apart from this, it had little interest in meddling in their political affairs.

>>2691135
Thats too long for a headline bud

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>>2691090
The only ridiculous thing about Greek debt is that it has skyrocketed absurdly thanks to modern financial instruments and rating techniques.

It's much like Zimbabwean hyperinflation. What the hell does it mean, in real world terms, for a currency to be inflating "at a rate fo 79,600,000,000% per month"? It means there's a fucking bug in the Forex software because it wasn't designed to handle this sort of case, yet the lunatic bankers decided to take the meaningless output at face value and feed it back into the same buggy calculation loops, compounding the error.

There are serious reasons to think that the Greek debt situation is not that bad. Krugman has expressed the view, and the guy below has wagered $4 billions on his analysis:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/12/10/greece-largest-private-debt-owner-says-greek-debt-is-much-lower-than-we-think-video/

“We started buying bonds at the time of the double election (May 2013) at 11.40 [cents to the dollar] and we are one of the largest private Greek bond holders if not the largest,” he told Greek Reporter.

He also developed his own accounting method that uses “very tough international standards” and this is why he says that Greece is A+. “I spent tens of millions of dollars to develop this method, something that credit agencies cannot do,” he said.

Kazarian believes that the Greek debt is not 177% of GDP but rather 71% of GDP, claiming that “the level of Greece’s debt is the lie of the century.”

For the 61-year-old investor, the Greek debt should be measured not at face value, which is 312 billion euros in 2015, but on a time of repayment basis, which would bring a substantial write-off due to low interest rates and the fact that its repayment will start in 10 years. The extended repayment time is more important than the actual amount of debt.

>>2691134
Wtf u talking about tinfoil head

>>2691231

He's saying that the long term expected value of the debt is 77% of GDP. The nominal value if all the debt were to be sold today, would amount to 177% of GDP.

This is possible if low interest rates did not keep pace with inflation, meaning the debts could have negative interest, and be smaller when the repayment comes due.