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Was he right?
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i don't get the point of this book. it didn't help me get on or in any china whatsoever
Plenty of stories
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Need some suggestions on good "world history" books. Looking for something that gives a good overview of everything that's not total garbage.
Any ideas on what to read?
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Sapiens - Yuval Harrari
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Fpbp
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Wtf was their problem?
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Post people whom you don't agree with but still are intellectual giants that would probably make you look like a baby in a debate
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Marx
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literally anyone
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Murray Rothbard. I'm no libertarian, but I still love his works on history, particularly economic history. His work is great.
Is it possible to make a sound version of Aquinas' First Way in modern terminology or does it depend upon the Act/Potency Distinction to make sense at all?
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Anyone have any history related OC that you would like to share?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_FRAcO8Gmc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSO7Ho1VYo
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Nice crimean war video
Is sucking at strategy games reflective of what my real life performance as a tactician/leader would be like?
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Why was the Ottoman Empire full of furniture?
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Sitting on your ass gets tiring ,you need comfort.
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Can someone please suggest a interesting (but accurate) book of historical short stories? Like telling a summary of the life of Alexander the Great and then moves on to Genghis Khan etc. It doesn't have to be about specific people, it can be summaries of events, cultures or whatever.
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You know the drill. Starting with an oft overlooked one. Lady Mary Wortley Montague a cute, smallpox scars and all.
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After the conquest of Prussia by the Teutonic Order, how did they manage to turn them into Germans (aka German LARPers)? There were no modern school system that taught them one common language.
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Firstly Germans created colonial cities and towns, then they converted the pagans under a german church hierarchy. They then absorbed the old Prussian population through intermarriage and outbreeding. There were some old Prussian communities which survived unto the 16th-18th centuries and only married within their own culture like the Sorbs of east Germany.
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>After the conquest of Prussia by the Teutonic Order, how did they manage to turn them into Germans (aka German LARPers)?
Protestant reformation which elevated German into the language of the Church, thus making it the language of prestige. Before that the Germanization had rather meager results.
It's worth notice that Catholic areas like Upper Silesia or Warmia didn''t flip their language into German.
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It was barely settled and Germans reproduced in record numbers. In order to compete and participate in the trades, they local tribes had to assimilate sooner or later. Also for the nobility the German culture was very attractive.
daily reminder that epicurus was a mediocre cult leader who was just buttblasted over being less eloquent, less profound, less intelligent, and less famous than plato. he is hardly worth a mention
daily reminder that stoicism was a """philosophical school""" meant for those who couldn't into actual philosophy, and needed a support group to deal with their feels.
other notable meme philosphers:
- epictetus
- diogenes of synope
REAL/interesting philosophers:
- aristotle
- plato
- plotinus and his students
- plutarch
- presocratics
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Were berbers descendants of Jordanians? Others say morrocco or just plain congoids
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>It's over, Cataline, I have the high ground!
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>YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER
>*Autistic screeching*
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Considering that Cataline wanted to kill the rich and redistribute their wealth among the poor, could be considered the first communist?
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>could be considered the first communist?
No. He was a populist. He wanted to kill the rich and redistribute their wealth amongst his patrician friends to increase his power.
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I know that her tits were probably a meter long, but what are the chances a 1st century Vietnamese woman was 9 ft tall as the Chinese side claims?
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>9 ft tall as the Chinese side claims?
Or maybe the translation you're using screwed up the unit conversions?
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I've seen strange descriptions like this before in Chinese literature. Liu Bei supposedly had earlobes so big that they dragged along his shoulders and forearms long enough that he could touch his knees without bending over. I wouldn't trust them
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>身長七尺五寸,垂手下膝,顧自見其耳。
>His body was seven chi five cun [~1.87 meters] tall, his hands reached down to his knees, and he could turn to see his own ears.
Popular folk belief is that great men have unusual appearances, so unique traits tend to get exaggerated. That said, big ears and long arms are not implausible, and elsewhere we have a quote of someone insulting him as "big eared villain."