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Tell me about Mithraism /his/
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>>3094219
It was a religion.
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Ultimately too esoteric to appeal to the masses.
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>>3094256
It's more that it forbade women from taking part, meaning it was doomed to be a minority religion and meaning it lost out on the energetic female proselytism that Kikeanity benefited from.
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How was pre Roman Italy like.
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Well it wasn't Italy that's for sure.
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less fun
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>>3094191
A lot like pre Roman Germany
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How come there is so much despair and grief in great thinkers?
-Jung: Went insane and fell into suicidal despair for the 4 years it took him to write the Red Book, despite having world-wide fame, tons of money, a loving wife, and a harem of lesbians.
-Nietzsche: Years of constant sickness, nearly went blind, lost his all friends, went broke, died a virgin. Died of insanity.
-Heraclitus: Known as the "weeping philosopher". Bearly able to finish his books due to constant melancholy. Exiled by own people. Allegedly died of loneliness.
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>>3094127
People who aren't sad sacks have better things to do with their lives than write autistic cucktinental """philosophy""".
Heraclitus was just a cry baby.
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>>3094127
Over-thinking life and its meaning i variably leads to sadness. Asking questions you can't possibly answer will never be rewarded. Clawing at that thing in the back of your head that says you don't matter and shouldn't bother living would drive anyone insane. Find your meaning in the day to day.
One man can't give humanity it's purpose, humanity will find its own purpose whether it means to or not. All 8 billion, and all the billions and trillions to come will arrive at some sort of destination. You're just an ant in the colony
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>cherrypicking 3 philosophers proves anything
Meanwhile there have probably been dozens of philosophers who aren't mentally ill or depressed at all.
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What is the single most important piece of technology in this history of warfare?
>pic not related
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>>3093961
Metal working
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>>3093961
Modern Medicine.
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Hello, /his/.
What are some of the best works on African history? I mean the kingdoms of Mali, Ghana, Etheopia, Sudan, etc.
The reason I want to know is because I watched a lecture by Akala, which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUtAxUQjwB4
And I noticed that I actually had problems with his statements sometimes, and then realized I had literally no factual grounds on which I could be against his ideas except for ''But Africans would never be able to do that''.
Damnatio Memoriae is not exactly new, and whitewashing of history happens all the time. I mean, we see Japanese people as intelligent, civilized people now, but they were wearing necklaces with rape victim's pubic hair for protection in battle whilst burrying civilians up to their waist in dirt and letting wild dogs at them for fun about 80 years ago. They were quite literally worse than ISIS could even imagine themselves being in their wildest fantasies.
So anyways, I'd love to find some books to help me understand African history a bit better. Anyone know any?
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>>3093863
bump for interest
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>>3093863
At work. Will dump links when boss isn't watching.
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>>3093863
UNESCO have some free books that you can download off their website that have a high amount of general information about African history and society in. They were a huge undertaking I recommend you have a look at them
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>historical event that has been known of and retold for generations is considered to be just a legend
Why do historians always do this? They really look fucking stupid once they find solid evidence of it like with Troy.
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>>3093678
Because the finding of Troy is the exception, not the rule.
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>>3093704
Because you said so?
Just admit historians (STEMshitters extraordinaire) are God-hating ideologues.
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>>3093816
I'm sure you will have plenty of other examples of legendary events, people and sites that turned out to be real then?
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*gives the west culture*
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>>3093635
>german humor
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>>3093635
Did you mean "gets civilized by the west"?
Germanics were technologically inferior to even their Celtic brothers. Not to mention the Rome. They had bad farming, even Proto-Slavs were better at it than them.
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Could someone give me quick explanation on what Wilhelms ideas/beliefs/ideology were? What were his goals for the German Empire in the long run? Did he share many beliefs/goals with Hitler? etc
I really don't know much of him.
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herr durr fuck ze jews
Bismarck do my job pls
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Getting his cousins to finally respect him.
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>>3093591
This
OP if you really wanna get an idea of his beliefs check out some of his famous quotes. He disliked Jews, hated Hitler, wanted to bring back the true glory of Germany. Too bad he was a bit shit
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What would the Founding Fathers think of the modern United States?
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they were smart enough to expect big changes, they would approve of our technology, disapprove of our government but be glad it hasn't completely reverted to tyranny yet, they would disapprove of our society and wonder why white people are such pussies
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>>3093417
Some would love it, some would hate it. The whole point of them was that they came from many diverse backgrounds with different attitudes about how governing should be done, yet they stood together for liberty.
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So in pleb layman terms, Roman History is divided into KANGZ, Republic, and then Empire. For the more advanced layman, that is expanded further into the Western-Eastern Empire, and the Byzantine Empire.
My question is: how "aware" were Romans of the changes in their society that these historiographic terms specify?
Like for example: the Republic-to-Empire switch. In layman knowledge, the switch to Empire was basically Rome "stopped being a democracy" and began being a "Monarchy" with the Emperor understood in the same terms as a King. Meanwhile, in history, Romans seem to still refer to themselves under the same name as the Republic: SPQR. So did they still see themselves as a republic even during the Empire?
Another would be the Eastern-Western Empire: did the Romans really split into 2 separate states as layman history tells us, or did the actual Romans saw this as but a mere administrative division?
Questions like that basically.
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>>3093379
In Roman historiography, the Empire is divided into The Principate (Rule of the Princeps) and the Dominate (Rule of the Dominus).
The Principate is basically Rome keeping up the image of the democratic Republic. With the Emperor merely being the "first among equals." The Dominate, which came much later, is the one where they quit pretending the Emperor was just a first-among-equals guy.
However the non-Romans were more brutal in their assessment of the Roman Empire. For example: the Greeks and the Hellenized East called the Roman Emperor outright as "Basileus." Meaning "King/Monarch." Fuck whatever farce the Romans were playing at.
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>>3093379
Just to attach a follow up question for anyone answering OP:
Were there class divides in the way Romans saw themselves? During the reign of Augustus perhaps the plebs saw him as preserving the Republic while the elites knew full and well that he had made himself king in all but name?
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>>3093436
How butthurt were the Greeks in general? I've never seen it addressed.
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>Serbian history is shit
>Scandinavian history is shit
>Chinese history is shit
>Indian history is shit
>South American history is shit
>Persian history is shit
>African history is shit
>American history is shit
Barring the Greeks is there any history that isn't shit according to /his/?
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Nice personal opinion you got there imbecile
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>>3093196
he never said that they were shit, only that /his/ says that those topics are shit.
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Roman history
Egyptian history
Natural history
Finno-korean hyperwar
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Who is this guy
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>>3092980
robert loggia
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>>3092980
A certain man who lived in Russia long ago.
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>>3093052
HE WAS BIG AND STRONG AND HIS EYES A BURNING GLOW
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Is it just me? Or has scientific and technological progression slowed down compared to past eras? If so, why?
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>>3092814
What do you mean past eras? The 00s?
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Its just you.
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You are stupid. It has increased big league.
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*blocks your path*
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>>3092518
Don't they need to have a vote to determine whether they can block my path or not?
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>>3092518
not for very long, casimir
you got btfo by a couple angry germans
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>>3092532
And Austrians and Russians.... and Swedes...
>At least we conquered Kremlin... R-right guys
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>literally Marxism 2.0 Redux: Race Edition
>people still call them "far-right"
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>>3092478
The central tenant of Marxism is the abolition of private property. The Nazis never tried to abolish private property. In fact, they often privatized property that had previously been held by the state.
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>>3092478
>hurr durr
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A good indicator someone has barely opened a book in their lives is when they claim Nacional Socialism was Marxist because it had Socialism in its name.