what if Hitler was just a pawn in some greater powers chess game
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>>3192934
Like who?
He was supported by some western industrialists as an anti communist influence, but it isn't fair to say he was the product of this. Or that they could have predicted what he would end up doing.
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i don't know I just look at him and think fuck this guy isn't number 1. Didn't he say blonde hair blue eyes was master race and he is black and brown, I mean wtf lol. no wonder he didn't succeed he didn't even beleive in his own genetics haha.
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also I'm in Australia and I'm sure we get fed so much propaganda on WWII that I don't know what to believe.
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What did Mao do to inculcate such extreme loyalty among the Chinese peasantry?
It's pretty crazy that he convinced tens of millions of people to beat or kill the capitalists and suspected liberals they had lived alongside for decades.
Did his economic policies give Chinese peasants a lot to be thankful for?
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look at China's growth in life expectancy, infant and child mortality between 1950 and 1980.
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>>3192635
Well, he didn't employ the Japanese they'd been fighting not even 5 years earlier to enforce his rule
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Wasn't Chinese peasants rising up and robbing and killing rich people kind of a common thing before Mao?
>Bible is the only authority in matters of faith
>Catholic Church certainly isn't one
>Canon of the Bible was chosen by bishops
How does it work?
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>>3192544
>Canon of the Bible was chosen by the Holy Spirit
FTFY
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>>3192544
Its why different protestant denominations edited their versions of the bible.
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>>3192544
According to the Founders of Protestantism like Calvin, they considered the Catholic Church pre-800 AD to be the church of Christ as Calvin praised pope saint Gregory I to be the "last good pope". It doesn't make sense to me what type of reasoning they had in the heads.
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How come the only colony to be successful today is the USA?
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What makes something "successful"? Most people would consider Canada and Australia pretty successful
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>>3191866
It's fairly obvious
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>>3191866
because it was 13 colonies
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vidence that ancient farms had very different origins than previously thought 2017-08-04 02:34:16 Post No.3191838
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vidence that ancient farms had very different origins than previously thought
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/evidence-that-humans-had-farms-30000-years-earlier-than-previously-thought/
>Until recently, anthropologists believed cities and farms emerged about 9,000 years ago in the Mediterranean and Middle East. But now a team of interdisciplinary researchers has gathered evidence showing how civilization as we know it may have emerged at the equator, in tropical forests. Not only that, but people began altering their environments for food and shelter about 30,000 years earlier than we thought.
>In an article published in Nature Plants, Max Planck Institute archaeologist Patrick Roberts and his colleagues explain that cities and farms are far older than we think. Using techniques ranging from genetic sampling of forest ecosystems and isotope analysis of human teeth, to soil analysis and lidar, the researchers have found ample evidence that people at the equator were actively changing the natural world to make it more human-centric.
>It all started about 45,000 years ago. At that point, people began burned down vegetation to make room for plant resources and homes. Over the next 35,000 years, the simple practice of burning back forest evolved. People mixed specialized soils for growing plants; they drained swamps for agriculture; they domesticated animals like chickens; and they farmed yam, taro, sweet potato, chili pepper, black pepper, mango, and bananas.
>École française d'Extrême-Orient archaeologist Damian Evans, a co-author on the Nature paper, said that it wasn't until a recent conference brought international researchers together that they realized they'd discovered a global pattern. Very similar evidence for ancient farming could be seen in equatorial Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Much later, people began building "garden cities" in these same regions, where they lived in low-density neighborhoods surrounded by cultivated land.
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>>3191838
Min ancient human theories are making more and more sense.
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>>3191838
>"garden cities" in these same regions, where they lived in low-density neighborhoods surrounded by cultivated land.
sounds edenic
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Interesting. There's a theory that the rise of centralized Mesopotamian civilization was triggered by ecological changes which forced people to band together in larger and more authoritarian groups, not simply by the rise of farming. Maybe it's correct after all. I've always thought that growing wheat isn't really the sort of thing you would do unless you really had do. It produces a lot of food, but it seems to me that farming other kinds of food is easier.
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Is the only reason hes seen as a "bad guy" because he fucked with hollywood elite when they decided to play communist? Then they just spent years after churning out media shitting on him
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He's seen as a bad guy because his actions run in total opposition to the founding American freedoms of free speech and freedom of association, if he was around in 1776 he'd be cracking down on Washington
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>>3191550
>being a spy for a hostile foreign power and a traitor is free speech
what?
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>>3191552
Oh yeah, because being a member of the American Communist Party means you're a totally great spy. The "Un-American" activities were so loosely defined it meant people who thought child labour was fucked, in the 1930s, don't pretend just because he nailed some legit targets everyone else deserved it
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>Nevali Cori
>Catal Huyuk
>Gobekli tepe
Hold up, did Turks invent civilization?
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WE WUZ ANCIENT ANATOLIANS AND TROJANS AN SHIET
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>>3191494
Göbekli Tepe was a Kurdish civilization. Go back to Mongolia roach
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>>3191494
nah, they just stole the clay much much later
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>tfw GB & France will never come to an agreement with Fascist Italy to go to war with Germany in the event of an Austrian Anschluß, thus extending the lifespan of Fascism and preventing the cataclysm of WW2 as Mussolini wanted.
Truly, the most shitty timeline
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Friendly reminder Mussolini chose to join Germany over birth rates
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>>3191442
That's hilarious, do you have a source?
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>>3191449
War and Peace: Mussolini's Road To Munich, he was fucking autistic
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So let me get this straight... 2017-08-04 11:33:55 Post No.3191150
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So let me get this straight...
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Olmecs did this with OBSIDIAN TOOLS??
While Greeks are so praised for doing that with IRON TOOLS.
WHY are they NOT in the history of art?
And Olmec sculptures are as old if not older than classical Greek ones.
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Eat your hearts out, Greeks.
Classical civilization my big ass
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>>3191152
>these were supposed to be legs
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>>3191150
>WHY are they NOT in the history of art?
Um, what? Anyone who talks about Mesoamerican history (art, agriculture, etc.) is going to talk about the Olmecs.
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Who are Germanics. How did they came to be.
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>>3191137
SUBSAHARAN BLACKS THAT LOST THEIR MELANIN AS THEY WENT FURTHER TOWARDS THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE.
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aren't they basically balto-slavic, celtic, native-nord mixture?
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What were the best/most valuable provinces of Rome outside of the Italian peninsula?
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>>3190952
Egypt
Hispania
Greece
former Carthage
everything else is shit
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>>3190952
Asia and Africa were the richest Senatorial ones, while Egypt was the best Imperial.
The ones in the limes of the Rhin, Danube and Syria were very valuable for their legions.
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>>3190952
The Mediterranean.
Everything else were conquered to support major Mediterranean cities.
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Let's settle this once and for all, were they french?
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>>3190923
>applying modern conceptions of nationality to the middle ages
What a shitty thread.
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>>3190923
Yes and no.
They spoke french, they lived in France, they adopted french customs, they read french books, fought like the french, built castles like the french, had great cathedrals like the nothern french, so all the brits spamming ">normans >french" are retards.
Yet, the normans were a french sub-culture. Despite adopting their language, the normans were a people with a certain philosophy, who were quick to adopt other people's customs, who were great travellers, and they certainly didn't think themselves as french, a concept that didn't have the same meaning in the middle ages. So all the frogs spamming "normans are french" are retards.
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Is Latin America a part of Western World?
What is the consensus among scholars regarding this matter?
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>>3190829
Since you included French Guyana then yes it's part of the Western World. It's even part of EU.
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>>3190829
Yes, dumbass, it's on the Western Hemisphere, and has a culture rooted in the western tradition.
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>>3191029
Is Philippines part of the western world? They're the only truly westernised country in Asia
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Why all the civilizations, independent of each other started in last 5000 years, when our species has got about 200 000? This looks like a strange coincidence, that they started in more or less the same time.
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are they really at the same time, some change of climate and end of the last ice age mayhaps? im not very well read on the subject
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>>3190766
>200,000 years
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climate
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Was Europe at 12th century a safer place than 21st century Mexico?
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>>3190707
Depends on the place.
Georges Minois writes at one point in his "Histoire du Moyen-Âge" :
>"One must keep in mind to understand the context in which evolves the europeans of the middle ages : They were fifteen times less populous than today, they move at the speed of 30kms a day in the best case, they must walk across vast forests and deserted countryside, the cities have the size of a town, they receive news from the other part of the land days later, they are part of the world that is proportionnally twenty times bigger than ours. Trade is so much riskier and audacious than what we think, and if quantities carried on ships might seem derisory, they are a permanent exploit."
I would say that is less dangerous for the average peasant, but it is far more complicated for the guy who has to use a ship or a caravan. Local landlords in the XIIth century could keep peace and deter then brigands who would otherwise plague the honest subjects, but a lord only cares for his local fief.
In times of war however, and Europe in the XIIth knew war, monarchs could hire large bands of mercenaries who would resort to all sorts of agressions to loot and pillage, including sacking churches.
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What's the life expectancy of mexico
Is it higher than 40
then no.
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>>3190791
lurk more