How'd Liechenstein avoide getting eaten up by the Austrian Empire? It's basically defenseless and ethnically close to the Austrians, who or what was preventing a liechensteiner annexation?
I can tell you why. Nobody cared.
>>3246955
Liechenstein was a state in the Holy Roman Empire. The letters of FL which can be found on license plates mean Fürstentum Liechtenstein and dates back from feudal times. Austria, Switzerland or Germany would never annex Liechtenstein, because they didn't care and saw them as equals.
>>3246955
Nobody gave a fuck since it has no value and is in the mountains, it is essentially a part of Switzerland now however.
Historical betas thread
me
>>3247141
25 year rule
Why did some groups conquered by the roman empire, such as assyrians and berbers, retain both their language and culture, while the dacians were 100% assimilated in less than 200 years?
Dacia was transformed to a far greater extent
>>3246532
Why?
Because of the 2 or 3 centuries of migrations all passing through Dacia including being part of the Bulgar empire and being decimated by Mongol and Tătar hordes.
To celebrate Napoleon's birthday on 15 August, I present to you a brief synopsis of one of the first works of alternate history to be published, a work titled [i]Napoleon and the Conquest of the World 1812-1832: A Fictional History[/i] published in 1841 by Louis Geoffroy. It truly is a wonderful testament to the power of the French imagination:
In Geoffroy's alternate version of events, Napoleon did not pause in Moscow in 1812 but marched north. He came up against an army of Russians, Swedes, and 25,000 British under the command of Alexander and Bernadotte, and defeated them outside Novgorod on 8 ocotber. A week later he made a triumphal entry into St Petersburg. He forced Alexander to bring the Russian empire into the fold of the Catholic Church, which earned him the forgiveness and wholehearted support of the Pope. He sacked Bernadotte and made Poniatowski King of a restored Poland. He then went to Spain, where, at Segovia on 13 July 1813 he defeated and captured Wellington. The Pope persuade the Spaniards to accept Joseph Bonaparte as their King, and peace descended on the Iberian peninsula. In April 1814 Napoleon invaded England, landing in East Anglia and defeating the British army under the Duke of York outside Cambridge. He then marched on London, where he stormed into the House of Commons and informed the astonished MPs that Britain was abolished before ordering his troops to clear the chamber. Once this had been done he locked the doors, took the keys and, riding onto Westminster Bridge, cast them into the Thames. While George III was allowed to reign in Glasgow as a vassal King of Scotland and Ireland, England was divided up into twenty-two departements and incorporated into the French empire.
Napoleon rebuilt Paris as a new Rome to which all flocked. Even Madame de Stael returned, to take up a place in the Academie Francaise and receive the title of Duchess from Napoleon. He also lavished his attention on Rome, which he embellished, draining the marshes and diverting the Tiber as well as rebuilding St Peter's for his uncle, Cardinal Fesch, who had become Pope. In 1817 Russia, Prussia and Sweden rose up against French rule, but they were crushed; Napoleon wiped Prussia off the map and split Russia into three separate states. As an afterthought, he conquered Constantinople. In 1820 he annexed north Africa and in the following year Egypt. After a great victory outside Jerusalem, he marched east to Baghdad and sent Prince Eugene to Mecca, which he destroyed. Napoleon then abolished Islam. The rest of Asia, China, Japan and the remainder of Africa were easily conquered over the next few years, and, after a great congress at Panama, all the rulers of the Americas, North and South, humbly begged to be allowed to submit to Napoleon's rule. All the world's Jews met in congress in Warsaw and decided to become Catholics. By the time he died on, on 23 February 1832, Napoleon ruled the whole world, which spoke French and worshipped Christ.
>>3246459
You are certainly delving into the realms of fantasy if you think the French can defeat the royal navy idolator
Interesting, thank you OP
How right was Joseph McCarthy? Was there a significant Communist influence in government and in many major American aspects of life like Hollywood?
Did he ever actually catch any Communists legitly?
He was ahead of his time.
>>3246275
Completely. Soviet spies admitted he was right after the cold war
>>3246275
Not necessarily Hollywood, but there were definitely communist spies infiltrating America. Alger Hiss, for instance, was a communist spy who acted as an advisor for an unknowing Truman/FDR.
So what can /his/ tell me about the city of Dubna?
are you only interested because it sounds like dubz
>>3245991
the largest statue of lenin in the world is there
What's the historical significance of Benis?
>in arguably all areas other than no gf the life of the modern man is comfier than the monarchs of a century ago
What are we missing?
What you are missing is that humans are not machines.
We are animals chiefly ruled by emotions, not logic.
Humans can be happy living in the dirt and mudhuts.
The fact that modern society has only increased suicide rates and depression means "civilization" is missing something fundamental to being human.
>>3245504
>implying I wouldn't give up everything to be a monarch
more times have I seen a cat reason than laugh or weep
maybe it does so internally, but perhaps also internally a crab solves equations of the second degree
did the nebraska kansas act, dred scott case, john brown raid, and the secession events lead up to the war?
did each event have something in common?
just cant seem to wrap my head around it
is this bait or are you like 8 years old
>>3245826
not everyone is historically literate, thats why this board exists faggot
This is your high school teacher. You are a faggot, and I fail you for attempting to cheat on your paper by soliciting help from a neo-nazi anime web forum.
hi /his/
Who was the last "norman" king of england? Was it the one who lost the province of normandy, namely king john? did the angevin kings consider themselves norman? the whole thing confuses me desu
pls respond
>>3245167
Did the Normans call themselves that, or is it more a term used by thier foes and later historians who like to put things into tidy packages.
>>3245371
i think they did identify themselves as distinct from the english and the french, and i do think the word used to distinguish from others was in fact "norman", but as the rulers of england started to mingle with mix the locals the term norman was still often used but it had different meaning and it probably became useless after a certain point as the real "normans" accepted mixed kids into their ranks.
>Learn about history, philosophy, and theology
>Travel the world as a mendicant and tell people the stories and ideas I know
How viable would this lifestyle be?
>>3245135
Thanks anon.
But I want to ask the /his/ crowd if that lifestyle could prove fulfilling.
>>3245141
If you are the right kind of person, this would be extremely enjoyable. I've always wished I could start random conversations with strangers and hear their life stories and stuff in my own country, let alone people from entirely different walks of life in far away nations, but I'm too autistic to do so.
You'd probably want to do this sort of thing in Europe given the whole no borders thing, and wiith such a high density of nationalities in the region. Hope you do it OP
Was he really that good or were his Federal opponents just that retarded?
he was bold and much better than ewell, his death cost the south gettysburg at the very least
>>3244956
You think the situation is obvious and simple, so his enemies must have been stupid, because you have the clarity of hindsight to know which variables were most important. But in the heat of the moment they do not have the advantage of already knowing how things will turn out and which things are the key turning points, it takes uncanny luck, skill, and intellect to properly sift through the chaos of the moment to find a path to victory.
That's what makes a commander a genius.
>>3244956
>looks like bronn
>retarded
think again bucko
So what happened to slaves after the war? Where they just freed from the plantations and wondering around? Was there any sort of program set up by the US government to help them out? Or did they just stay on the same plantations, but actually paid this time?
>>3244806
Most stayed on the same plantations and became sharecroppers, others moved north to urban areas. Hundreds of thousands died in the aftermath of the war through starvation and disease.
>>3244806
Some were sent to Liberia and created their own slave system.
>>3244878
Sent by whom?
What is the justification for the availability of IVF while there exist children in the same country who would benefit from adoption?
What does one have to do with the other? Someone ought to adopt kids, sure, but why should the infertile specifically be punished with that burden? May as well ask why sex is allowed when there are kids that need adopting.
Captialism
Children in the custody of the state should not be adopted but put through life long military training and given the choice to join the military when they leave the states custody at the age of 18.
Post your favorite ceremonial head-wear.
>>3244680
only tears now
>>3244715
ITT: the biggest retards in history
>>3244509