21 years old upper-midle class white male here.
Is it worth to get a history degree or should I just do le 'Good Will Hunting' ?
Already have a job its just for the lulz.
>>2667831
Simply read books as he said. If you need supplemental help watch lectures online. You can also move to a place near a good University and sneak into lectures occasionally. You can even go to professors offices and ask them questions during their office hours. Most won't mind. The only subjects where you need a degree are hard sciences where you sometimes need laboratory experience and languages, though with these you can get a lot of the experience of conversation by simply listening to foreign language radio.
>>2667854
This is me again. If you want to become an expert eventually you will probably have to go to graduate school because the only way to get the experience and mentor ship required to become an expert is being around other experts. Even this can be alleviated somewhat by simply subscribing to journals though.
>>2667854
B-but what about le gender studies degree isnt it worth ? xDddxDxDxDDDDDD
What does /his/ think of the ancient Macedonians? For some reason, reading about them, i don't get the feeling they were ancient Greek. To me they seem more like Hellenized Thracians ruled by Greek kings, or Kings roleplaying as Greeks. So little is known about them, and what is known was written by Greeks that its almost impossible to have any conclusive evidence on their "ethnicity". Can /his/ give me a decent answer on them? Preferably without int memes, and preferably about them before Philip, help me shake this feeling that they were barbarians larping as greeks off.
Why would I help you shake the feeling they were larping barbarians? That is correct..
>>2667800
They definitely weren't Greeks, one of the kings got the title 'philhellene' for his adoration of the Greeks and they weren't part of the various Panhellenic games. Iirc they even used non-Greek words in the administration of the Hellenic empires
>>2667812
Because everyone flips out when someone implies the Macedonians weren't Greek, but they are so different, so irrelevant, until Philip to the Greeks that i can't bunch them together, if they were Greek than the Thracian's might as well be Greek and the Illyrians as well. I can't find any real evidence of them using hoplite warfare, pre Philip Macedonia was apparently a bunch of Nobles charging each other on ponies.
Why did it take so long for the Burmese people to be reunited under one flag?
>>2667725
They haven't been
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_insurgent_groups_in_Myanmar
>>2667725
Much of Southeast Asia stayed out of state control in part due mountains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zomia_(region)
"Zomia is a geographical term coined in 2002 by historian Willem van Schendel of the University of Amsterdam[1][2] to refer to the huge mass of mainland Southeast Asia that has historically been beyond the control of governments based in the population centers of the lowlands.[3]"
"The exact boundaries of Zomia differ among scholars:[5] all would include the highlands of north Indochina (north Vietnam and all Laos), Thailand, the Shan Hills of northern Myanmar, and the mountains of Southwest China; some extend the region as far west as Tibet, Northeast India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. These areas share a common elevated, rugged terrain, and have been the home of ethnic minorities that have preserved their local cultures by residing far from state control and influence. Other scholars have used the term to discuss the similar ways that Southeast Asian governments have handled minority groups.[6]"
>>2668893
Fair point. My uncle's family actually helped move in a family of refugees into our city. I forget which group they are, but they're basically mountain tribesmen that the government tries to get rid of via carpet bombing
Ok. Let's settle this. What is better, a parliamentary system or a congressional system.
>>2667713
Absolutist monarchy.
>>2667714
This, desu wa
>>2667713
What's the difference?
how many stabs did he deserve?
>>2667664
None
>its a "stormfag is completely and utterly wrong about history" episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6jhIW8od68
Thats funny because alL I remember is Jews bloating up the AH beaurocracy with high paying do nothing jobs and leading communist and SD strikes in Hungary and Czekoslovakis and attempting to rig elections in Galicia.
>>2668004
Holy shit, we have an octogenarian (if not older) on 4chan!
How did you manage to find us?
>>2668020
dik what that means
Why are Africans and South Americans incapable of creating pan-continental unions on their respective continents in the vein of the European Union?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_South_American_Nations
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Union
>>2667558
Not enough jews to convince retards that it is a good idea.
The EU was able to come together because it involved a bunch of very rich, small countries with similar socio-economic backgrounds and political aims. You don't see that cohesion really, anywhere else in the world. A continental union wouldn't work in countries with huge socio-economic differences with each other- I mean, think of how detrimental NAFTA was- tons of American businesses left to take advantage of developing country wages, and if we had something like the EU for North America, Mexico would just be a money pit, with billions of dollars wasted on unavoidably inefficient development programs. Imagine the difficulty the EU had bailing out Greece, but like 100 times worse. This is basically the same problem you'd see in South America or Africa. Countries there have way more trouble keeping themselves afloat than western developed nations, and some similar attempt at international syndicalism would be almost impossible to pull off.
So, who tf thinks that really used the chemical weapons in middle west?
25 year rule
>>>pol/
Yeah man they're totally using chemical weapons in the midwest
>>2667491
Should be an Israeli ball
What are some good sources to brush up on Left-wing politics of the 1920's USA? Specifically, I'm looking for Socialist/Communist (or "progressive") grassroots movements which staged popular protests, demonstrations, etc?
I'm writing a research paper about the grassroots Right in the 1920's and 1930's, and want to use what I'm asking for as a backdrop, but the gaps in my knowledge prevent me from doing this confidently. (Other then the obvious events, like the 19th Amendment ratified in 1920, the Harry Bridges strike, etc).
Labor unions, activists, Marxist activities — whatever you have, /his/. Thank you.
Preferably, if you recommend a book, as long as it's around 200 pages that'd be awesome. (That's how cursory of a backdrop I'm willing to provide.) Considering that I have access to my university's database subscriptions, things such as articles, other research papers, and journals are also adequate.
Once again, thank you.
Though I despise communism as it has been manifested in the past you might want to take a look at the Social Workers movement of the 20s.
Book here
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2163478?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Page with many images here
https://storify.com/exextreme17/hobos
>>2667455
>(((Grassroots)))
What are some examples of people in history who just wanted to see the world burn? Not people who were ruthless and methodical or who fucked up big time but who spread chaos and misery for the hell of it?
>>2667320
Me.
I have a horrible genetic illness and already have two kids out of wedlock with two different mothers, and I'm working on my third. I'm also low iq.
>>2667320
>The news of the use of the first atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagsaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 evoked a range of different meanings. In addition to the material form the two books by Paul Boyer contained in the reader, here are a few others:
President Harry Truman:
>President Harry Truman was on board the U.S. Augusta, returning from the Potsdown Conference in occupied Germany when he was told of the destruction of Hiroshima. The President told the ship's crew: "This is the greatest thing in history."
Polls:
>A poll taken on August 8, 1945 found that only 10% of population opposed the use of the bombs on Japanese cities; 85% approved.
>Another poll taken in September 1945 reported that 64% of Americans believed that atomic bomb had made war less likely.
>A December 1945 Fortune magazine poll asked whether Americans approved of their government's use of the atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
>53.5% approved what had been done.
>13.5% believed that there should have been a demonstration of the weapon's power at an isolated site before it was used against a city
>4.5% believed that the atomic bomb should not have been used at all.
>22.7% wished more atomic bombs had been dropped before Japan had an opportunity to surrender
>One woman reported: "I have no feeling of guilt whatever in the use of atomic bombs on Japan. I only regret that atomic bombs were not used to blast the four Jap islands into oblivion. There may be innocent women and children, but they only in my opinion breed moreof the same kind of soldiers to make us trouble in the future."
>The poll found that the welltodo and well educated respondents were less favorable towards the bombing, as were African-Americans regardless of their economic level.
http://www.indiana.edu/~futhist2/Part4/Wk12/reactions.htm
Really makes you think...
People need to read about the Rape of Nanking and the Japanese treatment of POWs before they cry about Hiroshima. Fuck the Japs they deserved it.
>>2667050
This post, too, really makes me think.
The extent to which humanity is willing to go to reek havoc and horror simply gets the noggin' joggin'.
>>2667050
>Rape of Nanking
did not happen
most korean soldier did rape
>treatment of POW
only koreans and chinese treated pows badly
How come zyklon b left a blue sludge on the walls of the delousement chambers but not on the walls of the alleged killing chambers?
>>2666715
Is it so hard to believe that the nazis kept painting the walls?
It takes 20x more Zyklon B to kill lice than it does for killing humans
Also many of the original Auschwitz gas-chambers were destroyed by the retreating Germans
>>2666715
>it's racist to say 6 million Jews were gassed as it implies Jews have different bone structures
>check m8 LIBTARDS
So, how exactly did Islam spread to these guys down here? My best guess would be some kind of missionaries from India.
>>2666681
Trades from India as then you get better prices and aren't enslaved
Islam doesn't really have missionaries in the same way that Christianity does. It was mostly Muslim traders who went down there for spices.
>>2666681
The "trade winds" in the Indian Ocean literally pushed Arabs there during the Monsoon season.
Would it be better if the greeks weren't conquered by the romans?
No. Romans were greekboos and thanks to them hellenic culture was propagated.
Yes. They stopped Hellenic technological progress. They had invented the steam engine, railroads and vending machines. The industrial revolution was at hand until the Romans set the world back 2000 years.
>>2667441
go to bed plato
>BREAKING: Personal doctor says Emma Morano, at 117 the world's oldest person, has died in her Italian home.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/853294805249667073?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
>>2666567
She probably was a fascist, fuck her.
>>2666579
/his/ in a nutshell
before long the last of those born in the british empire will be gone!