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What contributions did the Dutch Empire make to history? How did they stack up against other competing empires, like the French, Portuguese, Spanish, and British? Was there any way for them to hold onto Indonesia post-1945 or was the Japanese Empire the nail in the coffin?

Tl;dr can someone give me a quick rundown of how the Dutch Empire rose, thrived, and fell? They seem pretty underrated considering their contributions to the development of modern capitalism

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In the US 450k African prisoners were imported. Today they stand at 42million in the US. That represents an unheard of growth rate. Remember between 1800-1970 there was virtually no African immigration into the US.
>Inb4 "niggers breed like vermin"
The only problem with that is over 90% of those brought from Africa were men.

What's going on here? It is highly unlikely that colonial era women were getting blacked at all let alone at such a high rate?

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They were retards

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>januARY
>februARY
>march
>april
>may
>june
>july
>august
>septemBER
>octoBER
>novemBER
>decemBER

What did they mean by this?

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Does the Civil War occupy the same cultural associations for Amerifats that the First World War does for Europeans, or did it just whet the burgers' appetites?

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Why hasn't northwest Europe ever had a large contiguous empire?

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So when i was in high school I remember that I used to joke about a lot of people. Most of them were nerds and people who cosplayed and me and some of my friends had really lot of fun by talking to them and "bully" them. You can say I was the bully you saw in those american films 15 years ago. Now it got me thinking is it right in any way to joke about someone just because he acts different from everyone else? I know it sounds stupid and obviously it is not morally acceptable but i still have this doubt. Keep in mind that the guys I joked about were the kind of nerds that instead of being quiet and minding their own business lied about the "cool things they did" and pretty much everyone joked about them because of this.

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Why were the Europeans the ones who discovered the world and not the world that discovered Europe?

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>Be Phoenician
>invent and spread alphabet
>colonize the Mediterranean before anyone else did it, literally first maritime league ever
>first globalized world ever
>get destroyed and forgotten forever

What a shame

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>Be japanese
>live on a tiny island
>become civilized hundreds of years after your neighbours
>have all your culture be a copy of Chinese culture
>have meaningless wars over pity feudal disputes for almost a millennium
>only reason mongols didn't invade was because you where lucky enough to have them hit by a large wave
>didn't bother to try and do a major invasion again because your island is so insignificant
>have shitty resourches so you invent the most overrated weapon of all time: the Katana
>your warlords sells part of your population to portugese merchants who then sells them as slaves to African warlords
>stay in the medieval era all the way to the mid 19th century because you isolate yourself like an autist because reasons
>Industrialize
>pretty much copy western culture the same way you copied chinese
>get forced to end your isolation and trade with the rest of the world because the americans parked four scary looking ships in one of your ports
>wage a meaningless war against your former feudal warlords that chimped out because of industrialization
>win a meaningless war against russians because of sheer luck
>some years later
>start to attack your neigbhourse when they are weak because of civil wars
>attack european colonies when they have their troops fighting in europe
>think you are creating a great empire
>get hybris and attack America
>oh shit they aren't weak like our neighbours
>don't have enough resourches because nobody wants to trade with you anymore
>literally have to send young men on suicide missions
>can't feed your own armies
>get your ass kicked by america
>surrenders
>Emperor rejects his divinity, pretty much proving that millions of you people died for nothing
>stil worship him like little sheeps
>don't have any military so they are an american protectorate instead
>make cartoons for autistic manchildren
>work like ants
>males are too beta to have a gf so they have fake viritual gfs
tfw you realize japanese are the KANGZ of East Asia

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I, Cody Hebel, located in Gainesville, Florida have found the answer to life.

The answer to life; is perspective, from the vagueness of perspective, you can go deeper into attitude, love (which doesn't pay the bills) and into the survival aspects of life.

Perspective is vague and solves all issues. Internal and then manifested into the solving of external issues.

Corporate start up job said no philosophy in the workplace, should I quit?

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Be Mussolini
>introduce welfare and other social programs for the good of your people
>be backed by notable artists and architects who give your regime a distinct and memorable aesthetic
>have the support of the catholic church despite being an atheist
>have your entire reputation ruined because you allied with an idiot who stole your ideology

Be Hitler
>corrupt Mussolini's ideology with racism, nationalism, imperialism and anti-semitism
>refuse to pay taxes
>conduct regular purges in your government for no reason other then to satisfy your corrupt corporate backers
>be a failed artist who makes sure his regime kicks out every single good or forward thinking artist in your country and end up having one of the shittiest aesthetics of the century
>fail to receive the support of the catholic church despite you being a catholic yourself
>start the worst war in human history because of your ridiculous expansionist fantasy
>give land to a regime that you say is evil and jew controlled
>fuck up a bunch of times by not listening to your generals which causes you to lose the war
>commit suicide after you lost the war and put most of eastern europe and part of your own nation under communism
>have a small penis

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*builds your path*

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*rides up and dow your lines*