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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%AA_revolt
Gee sure are no pockets of Islam in South America

>>2988149
>Islam never spread to China

Are you retarded?

>>2988149
>Islam has a reputation for appealing to low income/poverty stricken/unintelligible masses of people

And other religions are any different?

>>2987910
Define "anything"

Weak post, kill yourself.

You get some meat out of it.

>>2987918

Isn't it forbidden to eat sacrificial meat though?

Since written language was invented. We realized that human memory is unreliable so we sought for a better way to preserve information for future generations

>>2987822

Why don't you trust your own famz?

>>2987824
have you ever played telephone arabe(don't know the enlightened name of the game)? basically you and your buddies sit in a circle, you think up a phrase and whisper into the ear of the person to your right and everyone does the same until it goes full circle until it reaches you. 99.99% of the time whatever the person whispered into your ear will be drastically different than the original message. same goes with history. People forget, embellish or outright lie.

>>2987682
Small dick syndrome

>>2987682
Only the last 3 are bad

>>2987682
They are like the kid at school who gets picked on by everyone then one day spergs the fuck out

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Also post late antiquity.

Obviously the barbarisation theory is a load of horse manure, but I'm not totally convinced that it was simply down to technological advancement.

The way a force conducts warfare definitely does have an effect on the weapons they use. I think you're underestimating just how much cavalry was coming into play in Late Antiquity. In previous centuries there had been something like 1 cavalry troop for every 70 infantry troops in a Roman Legion, but by the 4th century it was more like 1 cavalry troop for every 3 infantry troops. A spatha is definitely far more effective against cavalry than a gladius, although it's important to remember that most Late Roman troops used spears as their primary weapons.

As well as this, skirmishes were becoming more common and larger battles less common, so it's handier for soldiers to be equipped with a weapon they can defend themselves with in a one on one situation, which the spatha is obviously much better for. Martial arts training seems to have been more sophisticated in the later Empire, or at least that's the impression we get from the increase in the number of instructorial ranks in the army, so maybe this was a bigger incentive for more of a personal defence weapon.

Though the technological advancement argument does have some merit I think. By the 4th century Roman arms manufacturing was almost industrial in scale.

Stabbing with a longsword
Not even once

>>2987342
Any other good history channels similar to Historia Civilis?
I've been watching Historyden but it takes him ages to put out new videos

>>2987342
Is that a Vidya?

>>2989455
https://youtu.be/QqUnpCUi9KQ?t=495

Just run of the mill despotism. The kind where you don't use your absolute power for good.

Pol Pot is unenlightened despotism
Frederick the Great is enlightened despotism

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>>2987323
Despotism + virtue signaling

My dad lived under Fidel Castro, Francisco Franco, and Gerald Ford in the span of a single year. He had family in Spain and apparently communist Cuba and fascist Spain had a surprisingly decent relationship to allow movement between the two.

>>2987017
>occupied by the British
The Brittish captured la Habana for a whole 2 years.

>>2987082
That's really interesting actually. Any cool stories?

>>2987000
those are dravidians

>>2987000
They are Aboriginals and Dravidians

the same way African people came to live pretty much anywhere on this planet

>>2986889
They cheated by developments in plastic surgery and cosmetics. Before that India and China were always the sexiest. That's how their population got so high. This is also why America is better and the bulwark of Western civilization, because they're all natural with the hotties, and that's why their population is also higher.

>>2986908
>America
>All Natural with the hotties

Are you fucking serious? The hot caucasians are european, americans are a bunch of pretentious overweight cunts, and I'm a burger so I know what I'm talking about when it comes to attractiveness of american chicks. They are all fat cows. European quality is much better.

>>2987194
See, this beta attitude reduces your sex appeal and therefore weakens the gross domestic sex stock of America. Get out, you fucking traitor.

>>2986870
I can't imagine that the revolution would be successful. The British were literally the strongest power in the world.

>>2986894
would the U.S. have eventually gotten it's independence like other countries later did or cease to exist forever?

>>2986870
bump

>>2986842
augustus caesar compared to every us president

>>2986847
the principate was a republic not a monarchy

>>2986847
what did Augustus did that isn't in the US right now?

>>2986824
Epic

>actual science and natural inquiry discovers historical events that may have loosely been discussed and interpreted in the bible

>>2986824
Its not very accurate when Jesus goes into the wilderness alone to talk with the devil, and someone unknown to both writes down a commentary on what happened

trail of tears

The destruction of Carthage and it's library.

Really though reading about any major library being destroyed as well.

>>2986429
The Holocaust

>>2986394
Cherrypicking isn't a valid argument, regardless if you're a leftist or a right winger.

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>>2986403
Just look at these poor Russian children.

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Here we have a group of young Jews facing a pogrom in Uzbekistan.