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I'm so used to the Arabic-Hindu system (0,1,2,3,4,5) that looking at the other's (except maybe Roman) seems so alien and needlessly cluttered.
But when I think about it, the numbers don't even look Arabic, does anyone feel this way?
Is it because they're so widely used that they've lost their "alien" trait's to me ?
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>>3101090
They're so normalized we don't think of them as foreign. I'm guessing the fact we write them left-to-right also helps de-Semitize them in our minds.
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>>3101090
Let's just call it European numerals
>Arabic Numerals
٠ - ١ - ٢ - ٣ -٤ - ٥ - ٦ - ٧ - ٨ - ٩
>Hindu Numerals
०.१.२.३.४.५.६.७.८.९
>Medieval European Numerals
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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>>3101102
No, because those are Eastern Arabic
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It just occurred to me the other day how handicapped the pre-American tribes must have been from the simple fact that they lacked horses. I mean, just think about that for a moment. Without horses, there is no way at all to have fast communication until the telegraph is invented, and there is no way to have fast transport until the car is invented. No wonder the Americas never developed beyond the tribal level until the introduction of horses. They had no way to communicate or transport significant quantities of goods. Europeans were extremely lucky to have started out on a continent with such supremely useful animals. Has there ever been a book at really explores this issue, the importance of horses to the development of human civilization? What was the first people to recognize the potential of horses and really exploit it?
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>>3101076
Medieval times.
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>>3101076
>What was the first people to recognize the potential of horses and really exploit it?
Proto Indo-Europeans, that's kinda what let them spread.
Fun fact: horses are native to North America. They spread into Asia the same way humans came en masse into North America, although much earlier than humans. Paleo-Indians certainly encountered horses when they arrived, and hunted them as food, much like Stone Age Europeans did. However, it is believed horses were already on their way out in North America (landscape changes) when humans showed up.
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Incas did quite alright without them
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Romans vs Aztecs at the height of each of their prospective empires.
Who would win?
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>>3100905
The Jews
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Romans and if you disagree, 1v1 me in AoE2. Give me your steam, faggot.
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>>3100905
Rome of course
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thoughts on this?
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>>3100871
cringe fest
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>>3100871
what is it
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>>3100878
The only cringe I had was the "Christianize" meme image.
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without germans, we wouldn't have....
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Israeli porn about female concentration camp guards
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>>3100710
That's not a world I want to live in.
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>>3100708
me (but iam not a very important person tho)
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ITT: Alternate WW3 scenarios
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We all know the times we were inches away from WW3 (Cuba missile crisis, 1983 Soviet false alarm, 1995 Norwegian rocket incident) but what about unlikely but possible scenarios?
I've been thinking about the Chernobyl incident. I believe had the soviets not been able to prevent the 2nd explosion (was believed it could be 100x stronger than the first one), even more radioactive waste would have spread all across Europe and maybe lead to an armed response by NATO for the negligence and deliberate poisoning of Western Europe.
Or what about the time India and Pakistan detonated nukes at around the same time, maybe it could have lead to full scale war?
What are your unlikely but plausible WW3 triggers?
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Apartheid South Africa goes apeshit and nukes itself so the blacks can't have it
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-Berlin blockade of 1948 (would be unilateral)
-Berlin crisis of 1961 (famous standoff between American/Soviet tanks at Checkpoint Charlie)
-1967, if Israelis don't strike first and lose to much ground (not plausible)
-1973 Yom Kippur, most plausible of all, Israel was shitting itself, and the backing was very strong on both sides
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>>3100659
>Or what about the time India and Pakistan detonated nukes at around the same time, maybe it could have lead to full scale war?
If India and Pakistan nuked each other the rest of the world would watch the show.
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Will eugenics ever be practiced again in the future? I have a tough time believing all the elite "globalists" and "futurists" wish not to improve the stock of humans. With birth rates the way structured the way they are currently, welfare payment systems larger than ever, and the possible introduction of Universal Basic Income I don't see how the problem will sort itself out unless systemic action is taken
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>>3100621
>Will eugenics ever be practiced again in the future?
We'll genetically modify everyone.
>"globalists" and "futurists"
these are just memes, in reality the world's rulers are ad-hoc opportunists
>welfare payment systems larger than ever, and the possible introduction of Universal Basic Income
heh
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>>3100621
>world IQ is dropping at the same time the world is becoming blacker and browner
hmmm...
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>>3100639
>We'll genetically modify everyone
I don't think you understand how expensive and time consuming that would be. It would be much easier to simply put a bullet in every african
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Did ringmail armor exist? It's a favorite in tv and video games, I have yet to find any academic source talking about it.
For those of you who don't know, "ringmail" is supposedly mail links sewn on top of either leather or linen, basically a combined piece of armor.
Pic only sort of related.
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>>3100456
Isn't Ringmail like D&Dspeak for plain old chianmail?
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>>3100464
Possibly, but games like Age of Empires, Morrowind, etc. treat them slightly differently.
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>>3100456
1200s was objectively the most aesthetic.
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Spoonfeed me on Atlantis and flood myths.
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>>3099119
Atlantis is fake. Flood myths are just common because most civilizations started around rivers.
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There's nothing of interest in your pic, let alone within the red oval
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Nazi victory was impossible. America and the USSR just had more material. No amount of surprise attack or tactical genius would have made up for the material advantage of the Allies.
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>>3098899
I'd say a total defeat would have been avoidavble until the USA entered the war, and a victory would have been possible until Barbarossa.
Then again, the economy would have collapsed either way because Germany was so militarized, so you're probably right.
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Y-you mean producing 50,000 of these wouldn't have won the war??!!
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>professional historians and archaeologists who found and examined the tool say it was meant to be curved
>but I think they're wrong, I think it was meant to be straight and was bent by erosion
>t. dance teacher
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>>3098809
>How dare he question ESTABLISHED FACT
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Fuck off revisionist, the ameture contribution is extremely important.
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> The battle of Zama was made up
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Sup /his/
I'm watching this video of Thomas Sowell, about his book "Conquest and Cultures", and he makes an interesting point:
The radical difference of the kinds of animals found in Europe and Americas for taming and labor.
Like there was no cow, horse, camels or Ox alike in Americas to plow or transportation.
i fund very interesting point the ability of theming animals and the development of civilization itself.
Anyone here has some material about or something like that I can read? is this discussion suitable for this board?
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>>3098568
why didn't they just domesticate the buffalo?
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Sounds like Guns, Germs, and Steel.
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>>3098603
Yep, i know this work, but i was searching something more like :
how human "enslavement" of animal " is indistinguishable from civilization process.
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What historical uniform looks best on women?
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Does history ever make you sad, /his/? Not specific events or people, per say, but sometimes the grand scheme of it.
Looking at paintings of things like the Napoleonic Wars, the anglo-zulu war, various rebellions and conflicts, exploring the new world-the sheer masses of men serving at a time when one's country could literally be ripped out from under them.
It makes me a bit sad to see, I'm not sure why.
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>>3097716
The reality is that we as a society have turned around in the course of one generation the way that humanity lives. The World Wars have lead to an amazing era of peace and prosperity and when you look back at history it hasn't been real nice most of the time, I mean slavery was like 100 years ago and now we fuck around with iphones on the toilet
Result I guess
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Reading about history has made me realize that instead of seeing violence as a means to an ideological or strategic ends, it's more likely that ideology and national interests are a means to justify violence.
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>>3097716
Destruction of baghdad library and the end of the abbaside empire
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What does /his/ think about Varg Vikernes?
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A former black metal musician and a murderer.
If that doesn't spell genius I don't know what does.
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I think it's funny he's never worked a day in his life and lives on welfare in France
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Based.