What's better :
>1. Following the religion of your ancestors, because they believed in it.
>2. Converting to a new religion, because you think it's right.
>>3328079
The second one, as long as it's not Islam
>>3328079
>What is better:
>1. This spook
>2. This other spook
Spoopy
>>3328079
Delete
/v/ and /tv/ are triggered by women using bows because they say only manly men can draw them back. But if this is true why was Artemis associated with it?
>>3328056
Because she's a hunter and hunters use bows?
>>3328056
Artemis was a goddess, not a human. Greek gods didn't play by mortal rules.
>>3328067
She's apollo's sister
This thread is for the discussion of the history of Africa. I will start the thread off with a dump, but others are welcome to contribute as well.
Can anyone give me a rundown of the civs in East Africa? Who developed there?
>>3327698
Well, guess my dump can wait. Yeah, I can. Would you mind being a bit more specific? I know a lot about East African history, but I don't know where I'd start, since there is so much. In the meantime, have this picture of a Swahili home. This style of architecture goes back 700-800 years.
>>3327705
Here is another pic
Why did this president in pic related (Reagan) claim he would reduce spending whilst massively increasing spending on defence budget?
>>3327670
Because that is a fundamental contradiction in modern conservatism, and if they have to chose between their principles and strength they will choose the latter.
Pro Tip: [spoiler] You Can't [/spoiler]
They wouldn't have even taken Constantinople.
>>3327915
Sultan Suleiman is rolling in his grave reading this.
>if
Tell me about the Australian civil war /b/
>>3327848
Jokes aside, did it actually happen or is this just a meme?
>>3327862
It's true to the extent there was an attempt to cull emus with 3 guys and a machine gun and it was a colossal failure
>>3327862
The pic's a meme, but the Australian government did make several large-scale efforts to eradicate pest emus by military means. They were generally considered inefficent and wasteful.
A few months ago I started a thread here asking about non-English sea shanties and it went over well, so fuck it: Shanty Thread/his-mu thread.
What are your favorites and what were they for? Who does the best renditions?
I'll start by dumping a few
Flying Fish Sailor/Blow the Man Down, a halyard shanty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSAFTs0eUlA
Haul Away Joe, Sheet Shanty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvBHdw-EqLM
Eliza Lee, Capstan Shanty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAtMan8mNzM
Soran Bushi, Herring net hauling Shanty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxcPyoSxQg
Guerre, guerre, vente vent, French anti-war shanty. If it had an specific task associated with it I haven't found it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I_vQHbmmaY
One bump
Friendly bump
1783: Treaty of Paris signed
>The American Revolution officially comes to an end when representatives of the United States, Great Britain, Spain and France sign the Treaty of Paris on this day in 1783. The signing signified America’s status as a free nation, as Britain formally recognized the independence of its 13 former American colonies, and the boundaries of the new republic were agreed upon: Florida north to the Great Lakes and the Atlantic coast west to the Mississippi River.
1777: The Stars and Stripes flies
1943: Allies invade Italian mainland
>>3327826
>anime picture
Thread disregarded
>>3327826
What a glorious anniversary, stars and stripes forever!
>>3327842
>lol I posted it again mom
Who was in the wrong here?
>>3327632
Doesn't matter, all faggots.
>>3327632
Bill
t. Serb
Stop advancing on Moscow.
>>3327609
No nigger why eat shit fucking faggot
ITT:Doggerland Appreciation
Go!
>>3327566
fuck doggerland
>>3327572
There are many advantages of living in doggerland.
Pros
>Dope name
>inb4 Stonehenge
>Treesa n shit.
Cons.
>The french
>The Brits
>Periodic permanent flooding.
How could you not like doggerland?
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is based on a real person. His name was Alexander Selkirk and he was a Scottish-born Royal Navy privateer who spent 4 years marooned on a small desolated island in South Pacific. He was rescued by another privateer Woodes Rogers, who would later become a governor of Bahamas and destroy the self-proclaimed Pirate Republic based at Nassau. Selkirk's story caused great interest in England and directly inspired Defoe to write his famous work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Selkirk
>>3327553
bump.
>>3327553
The frigate USS Constellation, one of the first purpose built ships of the US Navy was disassembled and its parts were used to build the sloop-of-war of the same name.
As such, the ship is in a gray area as to whether or not it's extant (in existence).
Perhaps the final nail in the coffin of classical culture was the Islamic capture of Egypt, sole source of papyrus, and their reluctance to trade with infidels.
How the fuck did the Russians let so many of their armies get hugely encircled?!?
>>3327706
The purge happened. Which scaked a lot of senior military officers.
Stalin ordered them to stand down,he didn't want to instigate the German,also the Russians are poorly organized due to the recent purges
also the eastern steppes are perfect grounds for German maneuver warfare,the only advance where the German had trouble was with the Southeastern front in the Pripyat marshes
>>3327706
After the purge, all the remaining generals took time in the planning room to see who could have the most vodka. Needless to say, they got piss drunk and just started drawing shit on the map and everyone just went with it.
Tfw you realise communism will always fail because it denies human individuality, aspiration, and the natural desire to believe in faith.
>>3327660
Since when it's "denies human individuality, aspiration"?
>>3327660
please explain
>>3328163
It doesn't, it just destroys inequality that it's something selfish pigs can't accept
Are there any good books on the history of this place?
A Concise History of Bulgaria (Cambridge Concise Histories) 2nd Edition
by R. J. Crampton
The Voices of Medieval Bulgaria, Seventh-Fifteenth Century
by Kiril Petkov
The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony: Silver lined skulls and blinded armies
oт Dennis P. Hupchick
Those are a good start
>>3329135
>Anglos
>>3327599
What history?