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Were some ancient civilizations far more advanced than we're being led to believe? I just don't believe the Egyptians built something as grand as the pyramids using bronze tools with such precision. How can they cut into diorite and granite using bronze chisels? There's just no way they built the statue of Ramses the Great with such rudimentary tools, especially considering his face is completely symmetrical. And what about the Incas (or pre-Incas)? I've heard the Incas just built on top of older structures, which is why later stone blocks aren't as perfect as the earlier ones. They were able to build such precise blocks using ancient technology that they didn't even need mortar to hold them in place. And what about Gobleki Tepe? You mean to tell me a bunch of hunter-gatherers with no metallurgy erected such a sophisticated temple complete with relief carvings? Stone tools just can't do that and we have no idea who really built the site. And let's not forget the Antikythera mechanism, a Greek computer that could predict lunar cycles, eclipses, and other celestial events using technology that was lost until the 14th century. How did this all happen, /his/? I get that there are theories, but I feel like that's just guesswork because we really have no clue.
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>>3270056
Yeah The Egyptians used copper tools for the pyramids
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>>3270083
How?
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Were the Japanese Fascists collectivist Socialists during WWII? What was their economy like?
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like this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaibatsu
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>>3269968
So they were Socialists like the Germans?
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>>3269970
Are privately-owned monopolies socialism?
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How did the church decide what was and what wasn't apocrypha?
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>>3269910
Opinions
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>>3269935
well gee thanks a lot
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>>3269910
just look it up here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha
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What if zhukov has a heart attack and dies? I am 100% sure germany wins
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>>3269828
The war just takes longer to win. This is industrial warfare we're talking about. Superior tactics only holds for so long if you can't replace your losses. And German supply lines in Russia were fucking shit so good luck with that.
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>>3269828
Are you retarded? Zhukov was commanding Operation Mars at the time of the counterattack. He was only involved in the Battle of Stalingrad for the earlier phase, around the fighting in the lower Don area.
Regardless of what you think of him as a general, you're asserting his decisive stature to an offensive he wasn't even present for you fucktard.
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>>3269837
more men would win them the war desu
just look at the division numbers in total, not that much of a difference
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Why are the western nations/cultures so obsessed with ostentation and lookings?
There is a constant trying to show what do you have, your "value", making ostentation of anything and simply shaming or belittling other people just because they aren't on the same level. That goes from money, to art, to everything
While this of course happens (more and more by the day) in other cultures I see this far less happening in Eastern nations where in fact ostentation and calling everybody's attention is plainly discouraged, or at least publicly people are austere and keep their riches for themselves or inside home.
Is it a feature of the West or is it product of capitalism/consumerism? Or the latter only maximized the former?
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>>3269689
People like shiny things
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Bumo
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>>3269689
>Why are the western nations/cultures so obsessed with ostentation and lookings?
wrong, other cultures do it much more. Just think your average ghetto nigger with their gold or any rich chink.
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Why did the British give away half of Palestine to the Hashemites? Didn't they promise it to the Jews?
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>>3269668
>half of Palestine
You realize that this geographical region you have in your map isn't what Balfour had in mind when giving that promise or even what Jews had in mind when settling in the decades before that. It is Just an administrative line, and Brits had other promises to fulfill in the region.
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>>3269686
Not true at all. The entire thing was promised to the Jews at first.
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>>3269668
The Balfour Declaration was an informal policy promise made decades earlier by a Foreign Secretary. Your argument is a bit like saying Donald Trump is bound by some random minor policy Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State made.
This whole "Britain created Israel" is something of a meme, by the time Israel was formed Britain was actively trying to prevent Jewish immigration to the area and even militarily helped the Arabs during the Israeli War of Independence.
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What is tube on the side of BF-109? 2017-08-20 03:41:14 Post No.3269628
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What is tube on the side of BF-109?
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A dynamo
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>>3269628
turbocharger intake
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>>3269634
Supercharger Intake*
109's don't have turbos.
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It's been thousands of years and we have never built a bigger pyramid yet.
The fuck have we been doing all this time?
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>>3269490
Building things that are practical and look nice.
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>>3269490
building actually useful megaprojects which BTW dwarf Giza pyramids by an order of magnitude
>140 meters of stacked rocks
big fucking whoop, there is a 850 meter tall (OCCUPIED) building in Dubai, 54km tunnel under Alps, 160km high speed rail viaduct in China and 400 ton crewed laboratory in low earth orbit
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>>3269490
>The fuck have we been doing all this time?
Measuring our achievements by metrics other than how big our pyramids are.
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I require a translation, if there be any latin speakers present.
How would one say 'Deal with it homo' in latin? If any fine fellow can help me out I will be eternally grateful.
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Patere, pathice.
Used imperative of Patior (lit. Endure) for deal with it, vocative of Pathicus (invective, literal translation non existent, derogatory term for a passive, receiving homosexual).
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What is facism? Are the people being called fascist in today's day and age actually fascist?
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>>3269481
>What is facism?
read its description
>Are the people being called fascist in today's day and age actually fascist?
some of them definitely are
others not so much
you would have to bring up specific names to say whether they are or not
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>>3269506
Are republicans fascist ?
My teacher told me the GOP is the grand ol fascist party. When I asked her what facism was she said bigotry.
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Literally everything is fascism.
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Was the Reconquista just and heroic?
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>>3269463
mostly pragmatic
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>>3269463
No it was a white supremacist islamophobic Nazi movement.
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>>3269463
Nice spooks
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What's the actual proof for the Hisarlik being historical Troy? All I've found in a perfunctory literature review were tenuous etymology-based arguments and confirmation bias.
It might be the best potential site we have, but the consensus on it being the real deal seems extremely strong for how weak the evidence base is. Am I missing something?
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that sweet sweet tourist revenue tho
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>>3270512
wow that might be the best historical "we wuz" I've ever seen
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Why Japan was so easily beaten at Leyte gulf?
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>>3269413
>Be outnumbered 5:1 in overall vessels
>Same ratio in planes
>American vessels and planes are generally more modern
>Have had more hours training
>Have not had the crippling losses in other battles that destroyed most of their human capital.
Gee, I dunno. Why would they lose so badly?
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>>3269413
Because by that point in the war, morale in the Imperial Navy was fucking dead.
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>>3269421
It doesn't explain how the Japanese managed to fucking lose at Samar against an escort fleet. Were they that incompetent?
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Do you have nostalgia for a past that you've never seen?
Or do you laugh at that sort of thing?
I've always felt that, even if it was crueler and more dangerous, the past was probably better because human beings lived more in tune with their evolved nature than we do today. It has always felt that more correctly I do things, the less right they feel. But then I wonder about nostalgia, and if that's just my excuse for being bad at socializing and mediocre in school.
wbu, /his/?
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>>3269363
my dude, whatever past you're thinking of it was absolute shit compared to today.
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Not nostalgia, but yearning. Basically im a hopeless wannabe.
>>3269579
Was it though? They had no concept of where we live today. So a hellene at the peak of alexander's empire would've thought that he lived at the best time ever.
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>>3269363
>Nostalgia - it's delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, "nostalgia" literally means "the pain from an old wound." It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.
Did you know that the concepts of racism and homosexuality were unknown in ancient Greece?
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>>3269346
No shit, but that doesn't mean people weren't prejudice against certain ethnicities/races or that people committed homosexual acts
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>>3269346
The concepts didn't exist
Homosex was an action, not an identity
Racism existed, but wasn't recognized as such
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homosensualism was acceptable,but only in the form of pederasty
racialism is probably not as clear cut as darkies or cumskin but usually between hellenic people and barbarian