Is it good?
His podcast thread
can anyone tell me how costly the marian reforms were?
opening up the legion to the poor + equipping them like heavy infantry seems incredibly costly to me, too costly to not have caused an uproar and opposition in the senate.
Know a bit about this.
Basically, the Roman system before the Marian reform was that the upper classes were able to, for lack of a better phrase, create and finance their own private armies. This is how shit like Crassus's army in the desert happened. Anyway, so the Marian reforms eliminated two key money sinks in the Roman Army: privatization, and the need for several slaves to tend to every soldier, which was something basically inherited from Sparta.
Marius had his men carry everything on their backs (hence the expression "Marius's Mules"), which was what the slaves had initially been for. The fact that the government was enlisting and outfitting soldiers using its own money, rather than that of the private citizens basically meant that the revenue from wars that wasn't pocketed by the soldiers went into the government's coffers, rather than the pockets of the Patrician Class.
As you mentioned, this reform earned Marius a lot of bad blood in the upper classes, which meant that guys like Pompey were all too happy to side with Sulla when he decided he couldn't cope Marius's egotism and megalomania anymore.
So, the short and long of it is basically that Marius modernized a system that was a thousand or so years out of date, and managed to make war profitable for the government, rather than private citizens who bankrolled their own private armies.
>Basically, the Roman system before the Marian reform was that the upper classes were able to, for lack of a better phrase, create and finance their own private armies. This is how shit like Crassus's army in the desert happened.
Wasn't that army in the desert 30 years after Marius died
>>3142017
>seems incredibly costly to me
Still far less costly than letting half a million fucking germs rampage through Italy unchecked anon.
Still less costly than utterly annihilating the agricultural workpool of a predominantly agrarian economy.
Still less costly than having to deal with fucking constant immigration to cities from the countryside creating nothing but urban unemployment and an ever larger dole bill for grain plus constant rioting at the drop of a hat.
In the end, it's a matter of picking the lesser of two evils, and even the senate had to accept it.
Not to mention that a great deal of the opposition wasn't even about the expenses (like the average senator cared about the public budget, the roman senate basically ran on public fraud) as much as it was about the pointlessness of fielding an army considered absolutely inferior because muh traditions, no roman military upbringing, them cowardly plebs fighting for coin and not homeland aren't trustworthy, etc.
I mean Marius easily proved them wrong on most points (after forcing through a good 8 to 15 months of basic training and some low intensity experience in North Africa), the only worthwhile gripe was the last one. But even then it's not like the marian legions just broke and fled rather than risk their life, they just started obeying their general above their (putative, since often enough the general was more involved in actually paying for the legions than the republic) employer. A bit hard to accuse them of treachery when they never actually fought for foreigners.
Isn't it ironic that it was his fault that the Republic fell apart?
>>3141684
>Rome needed Carthage, the country that ruined everything and killed hundreds of thousands of good romans, to live
Fuck off. Carthago Delenda Est
>>3141684
Are you claiming that the capture of carthage ended thd roman republic by begining the empire. If so I would argue that its capture was kind of inevitable. If you want i can go into depth as to why.
>>3141684
isn't it ironic that carthage was destroyed you punic piece of shit
Would you like to hang out with some knights?
>>3141551
They probably wouldn't smell great desu, and you wouldn't really be able to understand wtf they're saying even if they were speaking English...
>>3141551
From which time period desu?
Post wives of historical people who were really cool.
Pic related was Peter Paul Reubens' first wife who was apparently super smart, witty, a total qt, but sadly died young.
How me understand tribal structure: nomadic and sedentary.
>>3141179
A tribe can have millions of members
>>3141179
Real talk a great example is Ashkenazi Jews
To what extent did Ngo Dinh Diem's policy towards Vietnamese Buddhists weaken the Republic of Vietnam?
>>3141168
He was a CIA puppet and a total moron. If the US had backed someone smart like they did in Korea, they could've won.
It caused several large and politically powerful groups to align against his regime and with the Viet Cong, leading to the death of him and his brother, and the eventual destruction of the Republic of Vietnam.
>>3141168
How do you fuck up this badly?
Are religions formed out of desperation or simply an incomplete or personalized interpretation of real hints at an immortal soul?
I'm certain there are plenty of quantum physicists who believed that their work/studies elaborated on the nature/existence of God. Not exactly "evidence", but what 100% answer are you expecting?
>>3141052
>Is there any evidence of an afterlife?
If my calculations are correct, there's a 1/1,000,000 chance there's not a god. Whether or not that god can provide an afterlife isn't certain, but it certainly seems to have no trouble controlling nervous systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ0MGj1jAoc
Post stories about historical figures doing autistic things
Francisco Franco and his oneitis
>Altogether, this courtship lasted for most of the first half of 1913. During five months, Francisco Franco sent her fewer than 200 letters, and 100 hand illustrated post cards. Sometimes Franco would send as many as three or four missives a day, all in Franco's fine, precise penmanship...
>Every word and phrase was socially and morally very correct. As Sofia commented, "they were post cards that even the pope could read" though, she added discreetly, "he was more intimate in his letters"
>At first he began very formally with "my distinguished friend", later changing to "My good friend Sofia", eventually moving to "My dear friend Sofia"... Franco first declared his love on the eight of March, "from your good friend who loves you", declaring the next day "he who waits and despairs for Sofia", five days later saying he was awaiting her response "with anxiety"
>All in vain. Franco was trying to fly very high, while Franco, as Sofia would put it was a "nobody".
>>3140987
The image speaks for itself.
Just look at his eyes
>Now [Bohemond] was such as, to put it briefly, had never before been seen in the land of the Romans [that is, Greeks], be he either of the barbarians or of the Greeks (for he was a marvel for the eyes to behold, and his reputation was terrifying). Let me describe the barbarian's appearance more particularly – he was so tall in stature that he overtopped the tallest by nearly one cubit, narrow in the waist and loins, with broad shoulders and a deep chest and powerful arms. And in the whole build of the body he was neither too slender nor overweighted with flesh, but perfectly proportioned and, one might say, built in conformity with the canon of Polycleitus... His skin all over his body was very white, and in his face the white was tempered with red. His hair was yellowish, but did not hang down to his waist like that of the other barbarians; for the man was not inordinately vain of his hair, but had it cut short to the ears. Whether his beard was reddish, or any other colour I cannot say, for the razor had passed over it very closely and left a surface smoother than chalk... His blue eyes indicated both a high spirit and dignity; and his nose and nostrils breathed in the air freely; his chest corresponded to his nostrils and by his nostrils...the breadth of his chest. For by his nostrils nature had given free passage for the high spirit which bubbled up from his heart. A certain charm hung about this man but was partly marred by a general air of the horrible... He was so made in mind and body that both courage and passion reared their crests within him and both inclined to war. His wit was manifold and crafty and able to find a way of escape in every emergency. In conversation he was well informed, and the answers he gave were quite irrefutable. This man who was of such a size and such a character was inferior to the Emperor alone in fortune and eloquence and in other gifts of nature.
Was Anna Komnene the original Tsundere?
>>3140533
BIG NORMAN COCK
>>3140691
what did you say, punk?
>becomes the preeminent historian of her era just to tell everybody how great her dad is
There was definitely something going on with her.
How did they all possibly manage to eat like this for 600 years? I can't imagine the bowel issues you'd get from 30 years of this awful posture.
>>3140528
I'm more concerned with the acid reflux.
>>3140528
It's not actually a bad posture
>>3140528
people actually used to move around you fat neet
>austria didn't unify the germans
>vienna isn't considered a german city
Truly the wurst timeline to live in.
>>3140487
Austrians aren't autistic enough to be considered truly German.
Was it autism?
How correct is this?
>>3140096
/his/ is truly a bara manga
>>3140096
accurate or not it's a pretty legendary screencap, props to whoever made this post
What was his fucking problem?
>>3139865
I don't like your thread.
But I'll fight to the death to defend your right to shitpost
>I hate frogs who disagree with me but I hate monarchs even more