Just how terrifying was a Viking raid?
Did they spare anyone? Take prisoners? Or was it just wanton slaughter of men, women and children?
When studying it in school and reading the first hand accounts what always struck me was how vicious they were perceived to be and how they invoked a huge amount of fear wherever they want.
>>3327454
depending what the raid was about, sometimes they would take slaves sometimes they would murderrape everyone, sometimes they just pillaged and left, but they did viscious teatrical things and desecrate churches and what not
same as anyone else raiding in europe at the time
Their sole interest would have been profit, so looting everything they can reasonably carry and taking whoever looks like they'd make a good slave.
>>3327454
they were what muslims in europe are now
>WE WUZ PROTECTING ROME AND EUROPE
What did he meant by this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqu3bndYiYg
>>3327438
>those comments
>>3327438
didn't carthage have more helenistic influence than rome before the punic wars??
and the germans are just barbarians
>>3327438
>Protecting Europe by destroying it
This is what Wehraboos unironically believe
I have been reading for days about Communism in Russia since 1917 to 1953 aaaand, HOLY FUCKING SHIT, game of thrones looks like a show for kids compared to what happened during Stalin's reign.
These were literally rabid dogs with vicious brains eating each other without a shred of mercy. They would collaborate to kill another dog and the next day they would fight each other to death. Hard to believe that human beings did all that less than 100 years ago.
>>3327423
Beria was just a friendly little Kitty-Cat.
>>3327423
And somehow Stalin get to sit on the First Secretary throne
>>3327423
But communism is about making people equal, so it's all okay.
Was Meiji era Japan the best era the country experienced
Modern Japan before the crash in the 90's is the best era the country experienced.
>>3327316
I'd say Taisho was more prosperous in the modern era
>>3327323
this
now they seem like a peaked people
Does anyone here know of any scholarship on regional identity formation and the causes of it? Preferably ones that approach the question from economic/environmental perspectives, rather than ethnicity, nationality or race.
For example, Cascadia. What political, social, economic, etc. factors cause people living in the region to identify as Cascadians? It doesn't appear to have a significant racial/ethnic dimension to it. Any info on other similar movements throughout history would be useful.
>>3327257
Bump please
i dont really know any works on identity formantion but i would be mad interested if anyone knows any. I do know, however, that teh cascadia movement is very much connected with the bioregionalist movement. essentially the idea is that nation states need to reflect environmental rather than cultural areas so that people will connect with the earth and environment rather than massive bureaucratic institutions.
>>3327257
I suggest you look into the history of Spanish America
Who was the first person to go camping for fun?
No one actually enjoys camping. They do it to show off.
>>3327147
I bet you're one of those weird fuckers who thinks everyone is pretending to like beer.
>>3327145
Some guy who preferred sleeping outside to arguing with his wife
>thousands of years on Earth
>mankind still not able to discover what happens after you die
Superior species my ass. We're just hairless monkeys
But we already know what happens when you die. You just need to die to find out :^)
Why would anything happen at all? You DEAD, nigga.
>>3327096
Okay... but the mystery is nice to think about.
is there such a thing as redemption
can a human being redeem himself, or be redeemed
>>3327078
Redeem themselves from what?
>>3327081
damnation, perdition
>>3327078
The idea that you need to redeem yourself is a human construct and a spook the only person you need to answer to is yourself.
So I've been reading this book and it got me to wondering...how come the rise and fall of the British Empire isn't talked about more? Amongst /his/tory buffs?
It seems like the Roman and Byzantine empires are so glamorized for what they did and posters act sad about their demise...but why not the Brits?
What they did was even more impressive than the Romans.
Not only that, the Brits actually did try to help a lot of native tribes of colonies and such. Not saying they didn't occasionally slaughter them. But compared to the other world powers at the time, they were pretty tame.
So why don't they get more love?
>>3326844
>Not only that, the Brits actually did try to help a lot of native tribes of colonies and such. Not saying they didn't occasionally slaughter them. But compared to the other world powers at the time, they were pretty tame.
It's a mistake to be tame as an imperial power. Either be utterly ruthless or be a total bleeding heart. Going half-way just ensures you'll be hated forever for various reasons relating to how man's psychology works.
"Champ, destroying Germany is simple. All you've gotta do is fire your most competent adviser, do the exact opposite of his advice, and then instigate the most destructive war in European history. Can't get any simpler than that, Champ."
100 years later... IT WORKED!
For those religious persons who believe in a "hell" as an eternal punishment for sin, how can this belief be rectified with 1) an omnibenevolent god (so long as this is applicable to your beliefs), and 2) infinite punishment for sins in a finite time frame?
1) literally no one believes this
2) they deserve it
Hell would only be for irredeemable sinners who didn't change their ways, so basically there sin would be eternal.
This is why the notion of purgatory existed, as it clears those who die in sin, which is basically everyone, of eternal hellfire.
Also, not every Christian theologian agreed on eternal punishment, but its controversial nature really only existed in the early church. People, like Origen, believed that even the Devil had the chance of redemption in God's eyes.
The current Catholic church really likes to downplay the notion of hell or the devil and focus on God and Jesus. You basically only hear about him during baptisms or the rare bible verses he's referenced in.
>>3327036
It's more complex than merely going to hell for being bad.
There is a god of light and a god of darkness, so you align yourself with the god of darkness you're going to hell.
What does /his/ think about The Great Courses' videos? Thinking about checking out the free trial but was just wondering what you guys thought.
>>3326803
high quality
>>3326810
Nice.
Got recommended videos?
>every major civil rights leader in the 60s was killed off/arrested just as their politics took a more class based approach
really jogs my almonds
Suprisingly, governments don't want communist revolutions led by monkeys.
>Get in a war with rich oceanic power that doesn't want you to dominate the continent
>Have no realistic plan for how to knock oceanic power out of the war
>Hope they just give up
>They're not giving up
Now that the dust has settled can we agree they did nothing wrong?
Tordesillas was a mistake, brazil should have never existed
>>3326684
Izzy was god's chosen.Ferdinand was too ambitious and degenerate and ended up giving all their work to a bunch of monsters with massive chins and low IQ known as the Habsburgs