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Did the Austrians ever achieve anything revolutionary or important in warfare? From the Napoleonic wars to ww1 they are pretty much a second rate miliyary power, everyone shits on the Russians but they had Suvorov, Brusilov e.t.c.
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>>2458858
They started the French Revolutionary Wars and WW1
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>>2458979
And, if you think about it, world war 2 as well
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>>2458979
France started the Revolutionary Wars
Bronze age and early antiquity seems, if reenactors and osprey-like illustrations are to be believed, really gawdy and often times of plain bad taste.
Are there any evidence aside from modern fat people playing dress-up to support this?
Also, if there are, how come they had such a shitty sense of aesthetics?
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few records survive, there is not much to go on
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Minoans were quite aesthetic, and not just because of tits.
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What were the best peaceful regions to be during WW2?
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Islam
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Sweden probably
>make money by selling iron to krauts
>after the war is done get plenty of marshall aid
And in return all that you've to do is to spend couple years by keeping your mouth shut and enjoying how rest of Europe burns while you profit from it.
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>>2458650
True.
Also, Swedes recieved jews in ships coming from Denmark and Netherlands, when WWll ended they came back.
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Was Southern Italy during Roman times always irrelevant besides Pompeii (which was destroyed by a volcano)? I couldn't find any Roman emperors and very few Romans of note that they were born there. Besides serving as a vessel for the Greeks to bring advancements to Italy Southern Italy always seemed to be considerably behind the rest.
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The further south you go the more shit it gets.
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it was the other way round, northern Italy was considered part of Gaul (Cisalpine Gaul) until the time of Augustus
agricultural practices at the time weren't as productive as they would be in the medieval era
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Northern Italy had the Etruscan civilization which is thought to have played a big part in founding Rome. The Veneti and the Ligurians were Italic like everyone else also.
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Is /pol/ right about the holocaust? I'm an idiot so I don't pretend to know anything, but from what I've seen the arguments for it being exaggerated seem really legitimate. Particularly the stuff about there being no gas chambers.
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Did the vikings wear horned helmets?
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That's the guy that everyone thought mossad killed but ended showing up a decade later right?
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>>2458404
I've heard of that one. The answer is no. Please address the OP, and watch the pic related documentary if you're so inclined. I'm really curious if anyone can actually explain for sure why / if all this stuff I've heard through /pol/ is bullshit.
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Which historical figure had the coolest name?
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>>2458154
If we are talking about coolest name of classic music, no doubt Beethoven is amazing.
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Stockhausen
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>>2458154
Biggus Dickus
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is Stoic Apatheia sort of a western Buddhism-meditation? On a philosophical level Buddhism and Stoicism seem very similar.
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They are very different. The only similarity is trying to be calm and logical in the face of life. But Stoics don't preach that life is suffering and try to reach a state where they no longer exist, don't preach an eightfold path to enlightenment, don't say to forsake the world and all that is in it, etc.
They are only alike in the most superficial sense. Under the hood they are very different ideas.
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>>2457618
NO.
THE ESSENTIAL CONCEPT OF STOICISM IS RESIGNATION; THE ESSENTIAL CONCEPT OF BUDDHISM IS TRANSCENDENCE.
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>>2457629
Stoics seem to recognize that it's the very human and worldy emotion needs to be tempered, I'd argue that is somewhat alike in the idea that the world is suffering.
I get that Nirvana is the ultimate goal, but the path there is very Stoicist it seems to me.
Apatheia seems to be very similar to Upekkha.
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How did the olive become so sacred to the Mediterranean? To hear them talk it's more important than bread, even to people for whom the word "meal" literally translates to "to eat bread"
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it's abundant, cheap and nutritious
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because it grows in their shitty dust-ridden hilly rocky climate with ease.
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>>2457147
This plus practically. Olive oil is used in countless things, Morso than butter in the North (the closest analogue). People use to wash with olive oil for crying out loud.
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In the framework of social justice worldwide we need to find ways for natural resources to be distributed on the basis of compassion and love," LMAO
insider.foxnews.com/amp/article/54679
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>>2456722
He's right, the world doesn't need more catholics
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Any thinking person realizes there are too many people in the world.
A rational person realizes the best way to combat this is to reduce childbirths. An irrational person thinks the best way to do this is to "let it sort itself out" through untold chaos and suffering in a brutal scramble for resources.
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I've been looking for all the info I can on the league of Nations, in order to write a paper analyzing it from an social, economic and political view.
But most of the things I find resemble just this.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1914-1920/league
Is there anywhere I can research more? I'm open to analyze from any point of view, left, right, centrist, any type of media too.
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Bump
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>>2456532
It sucked ass
Worse than the UN
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Hey /his/!
Watcha reading? Having some downtime with pic related, p cool.
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>Slavs in European History and Civilization by Fr Francis Dvornik
>Caucasian Battlefields 1828-1921 by Allan and Muratoff
Pic related is recent purchase
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Just started on this, any recommendations for books about the history of the steppes and horse nomads?
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I'm a huge sucker for this kind of thing. an autistic description of many aspects of life and society of a specific village in shantung province in the early 20th century.
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>Ottomans tried to westernize for centuries, failed and collapsed
>Russia tried to westernize for centuries, stagnated at best
>Japan tried to westernize, transformed from a feudal backwater into a modern industrial world power in a matter of 50 years
How the fuck did they do it? This is literally the only case in all of history where a non-Western country managed to catch up and in some cases exceed the West all on its own. It makes all other powers looks like retards who never even tried.
This still boggles my mind. Can anyone explain this?
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>>2456134
Japan knew they were behind in technology, and realized that it was either being dominated or not.
Imagine what the protectionist japanese felt when Perry arrived and forced them to open up for trade with massive warships.
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>>2456151
>Japan knew they were behind in technology, and realized that it was either being dominated or not.
What, and China didn't? So after getting raped up the ass multiple times in the Opium wars, they didn't even know they were outclassed?
Guess they just didn't want to win hard enough!
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>>2456167
The Qing refused to westernize because they were the Qing.
Imagine the Republicans being the only party in the US. That's what it was like.
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Is Art Subjective? And If So, Should We Return To Objective Standards 2017-03-04 06:40:30 Post No.2455831
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pic related i made this in art class, got a D, too bland and boring
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>>2455831
There is no way you made what's in that picture
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>>2455832
i did, i spent like 40 hours sculpting it in my garage, my lesbian art teacher ms shone is a cunt tho.
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>i made this in art class
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Why is the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia widely considered as very unreasonable? After the assassination of your heir and involvement of the Serbian government, it would be fair to ask for Austrian delegates playing a role in the investigation, would it not? Yet it was the only demand of the ultimatum which Serbia was not willing to comply with. It seems to me that Austria was in a good position to ask such a demand a couple of weeks after the shooting with the investigation supposedly going nowhere. Pasic was aware of the terrorist act before it occurred, but made only a halfhearted attempt at preventing it.
You can hardly expect AH to allow heavy subversion and undermining from Serbia. Nicholas as well told the Serbs to accede to the ultimatum; neither was there support from France. Still Serbia refused.
So why then did Serbia refuse to agree with all points? And more importantly, why is the ultimatum viewed as harsh and unlikely, even impossibly, to be accepted?
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Because Serbia wanted war because they expected Russia to steamroll Austria.
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Austria asked Serbia to grant the Austrian military full power in Serbia because a lone crazy Bosnian individual had killed some random Austrian noble
Imagine if after a crazy American redneck had killed a Russian official visiting America, Russia asked for the US to grant full power to the Russian military in their country
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>>2455778
>Austria asked Serbia to grant the Austrian military full power in Serbia
What? They asked no such thing.
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Austro-Hungarian_Ultimatum_to_Serbia_(English_translation)
They asked for AH delegates to participate in the criminal investigation.
>because a lone crazy Bosnian individual had killed some random Austrian noble
He wasnt lonly, it was part of an elaborate plot with ties to the Serbian government
>Imagine if after a crazy American redneck had killed a Russian official visiting America, Russia asked for the US to grant full power to the Russian military in their country
If that redneck had ties to Trump (to make the comparison fair), it would indeed be reasonable to request direct involvement in the investigation.
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Why did Christianity stop emphasizing women's subordinate role?
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Christianity become subordinate to rationality.
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>>2455385
But women being subordinate is rationality. "Muh egalitarianism of the genders" is irrational.
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>>2455383
feminism