What did they mean by this?
>>2981397
autism
>>2981397
"Don't try it, I've got the high ground!" - Union
"You underestimate my power!" - CSA
*confederate forces dismembered a la Anakin*
>>2981397
I had an ancestor who died in this battle.
Do you think they ever took a look at themselves and realized they were the baddies?
>>2981367
>good guys/bad guys
How's middle school, redditor?
>>2981373
normally I would agree that evil may often be a point of view, however, I think they've gone a bit far don't you think?
>>2981367
The crusades were like warhammer40k
A slightly-less evil human empire trying to eradicate the Cult of Chaos
Unfortunately they failed and nowadays, cultists have infiltrated the higher echelons of imperial society and insist that Abaddon is a good guy who is just misunderstood
Is it true?
Completely. Good post, OP.
>>2981327
Not really. If anything the Snow Elf should be the Roman republic or unified Roman Empire and the Falmer should be the ERE or Byzantines.
It's one hundred percent accurate.
Why do white people we wuz greco-roman civilizations?
Although a minority trait, there are and were blonde greeks (perhaps around 8%)
. It was a prized trait in the greco-roman world; not uncommon for people to dye their hair blonde. It was also associated with the germanics more. Of course, actual greeks and romans (even blonde ones) were not of north european stock anymore than dark skinned egyptians were of west african stock out of virtue of that trait.
>>2981322
"White" in America is synonymous with "European", at least in common vernacular. But since I know this is a shitpost, I'm saging it and reporting it.
>>2981322
Because Greeks and Romans are European and white.
Why is the "one drop rule" used to define "black" in America, but globally the opposite is applied.
>>2981235
Because white was considered normal in America, with black being "other". Conversely in Africa, if you were part European, you're the "other". Obama actually talked about going to Kenya and saying that he's Luo and they laughed at him and called him a white boy. I forgot which book of his he wrote that it.
>>2981235
it isn't? I call someone black if they look fucking black. if the one drop rule applied then everyone in the south would be black
>>2981272
Blacks come in a spectrum of shades and phenotypes.
thread about art, poetry, music, etc. with the theme of the black death
Adieu, farewell earths blisse,
This world uncertaine is,
Fond are lifes lustful joyes,
Death proves them all but toyes,
None from his darts can flye;
I am sick, I must dye:
Lord, have mercy on us.
("A Litany in Time of Plague"
by Thomas Nashe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWruBwPNBOs
Tell me about pre-IE Europe
>>2981136
Cozy civs with probably bat shit crazy practices and gods. They had cities, probably one of the earliest writed languages than wasn't an ideoglyph an had an extensive trade network than travelled from Scandis, passing all the atlantic coast, roamed all the mediterranean coast (coutning egypt and north africa, the separation culturally of North Africa from Europe comes from the Islamic conquest), tradign all kinds of stuff but tin was probably the most important one, from the mines in wales (in Roman times they were called the casitherites island, being that the ore from were tin is extracted).
>>2981437
>separation of north africa came from islamic conquest
interesting anon, did not know this
>>2981600
Not that guy, but that was one of Henri Pirenne´s thesis
>https://archive.org/details/HenriPirenneMohammedCharlemagne
How did Ethiopia go from beating Italy in the 1800s to being such a hellhole today?
a communist coup against His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, the best african leader ever.
>>2981089
Ethiopia had a surprisingly strong connection to Russia pre-WWI. Without Russian help, they lost the Second Italian War, then post-WWII fell for the meme of communism like much of Africa.
>>2981089
It was forced into being landlocked. Pic related, a monument to the glory of the Ethiopian Navy, now abandoned for obvious reasons.
this motherfucker sneaked in the British main naval base during WW2 in a u-boat and sank a British battleship before they could even react
>Sinking an allied warship
>hero
pick 1 Hans
Witold Pilecki, volunteered to go to and subsequently escaped from the concentration camp in Auschwitz.
/thread
Give me one logical reason why Istanbul should be Greek.
>>2981021
>Greek heritage
>would make t*rks mega butthurt
>>2981024
Turkish butthurt is a good enough reason for literally any public policy.
>>2981021
Here's one why it shouldn't be greek
>Give Istanbul to deadbeat greece
>Istanbul's economy dies
>Becomes a massive 14 million people slum
Did my DNA thing and I'm 97% Scottish and Irish (Inb4 shit race) and I was wondering how genetically distinct Scottish and Irish people were from Gauls, Britons, and other continental celts. Further, was their culture or religion similar at all, like would they have the same gods but with slightly different names?
Side question, as celts and italics (and even Greeks) are pretty similar (sharing a recent common PIE ancestor) would the Romans have similar gods to them? Is that why they didn't write much on them?
>>2980987
Kek shit tier faggot
>>2980987
>how genetically distinct Scottish and Irish people were from Gauls, Britons, and other continental celts.
From my knowledge not much at all. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong though
>Further, was their culture or religion similar at all, like would they have the same gods but with slightly different names?
Very similar. Britain was considered the hub of druidism to a large extent, although the Gauls had some druid thing in the Parisi territory as well. One thing to note is warfare wise, the Britons still used chariots while Continental Celts had stopped.
>Side question, as celts and italics (and even Greeks) are pretty similar (sharing a recent common PIE ancestor) would the Romans have similar gods to them? Is that why they didn't write much on them?
Similar enough where the Greeks and Romans would just call the Celtic gods who they felt they were in their own pantheons.
Overall with religion it's rather hard to tell. Celts had a taboo on writing so we don't know much about their religion and they weren't as unified of a culture as one would assume.
>>2980987
>I was wondering how genetically distinct Scottish and Irish people were from Gauls, Britons, and other continental celts.
I don't know anything about their genetics, but the "continental" and "insular" Celts are on different linguistic sub-branches of the Celtic branch, so presumably there was a genetic break as well.
>Further, was their culture or religion similar at all, like would they have the same gods but with slightly different names?
Yes, the various Indo-Europeans had similar mythologies/theologies until the rise of the Vedas created Hinduism and Christianity took over Europe.
>Side question, as celts and italics (and even Greeks) are pretty similar (sharing a recent common PIE ancestor) would the Romans have similar gods to them? Is that why they didn't write much on them?
Greeks aren't Italics, but yes, the Indo-Europeans had very similar religions. Also, who didn't write about whom?
>Reading some history book
>have the author calling Pushkin a "negroid"
>[an interrogation point appears over my head]
>do some research and find out that he actually had black ancestry
>mindblown
Are there any other people that was ACTUALLY from African ancestry that were forgotten by general history? I know about the claims over Aquinas, and I know about Dumas.
Why the so called "Afrocentrists" ignore these historical people that were actually black in order to appropriate other successful white people?
Hannibal his grandfather was from an unknown part of Africa believed to be from Ethiopia or possibly farther inland. He was a military engineer under Peter the great. When to a university in France and fought in the war of the quadruple alliance.
Exclamation point.
>>2980969
>Pushkin
>forgotten by general history
You must be an American
Hey I want to find a job in history but knowing the history majors they don't get much pay and school is expensive are there any jobs that are history based that don't require a history major
>>2980964
I know you're too new to recognize this reference, but we're not your personal army.
If I can afford to go blind blasting newfags out, you can afford to go blind sttaring at manuscripts.
>>2980964
Depending on your skills, you might be able to get a job at a Living History museum. For example, the one in my are has a blacksmith, a carpenter, etc.
>>2980964
Are you black or female? Yes? Then there are plenty of jobs in history. No? Give up, you're not wanted.
>Swedish "Empire"
everything is about perspective
A giant cock
>>2980991
literally Europe's benis
Is he overrated? He's been praised as an outstanding general, but desu I don't see anything that would justify such praise
>most of the battles he won were against badly led British in desert who let themselves get constantly outflanked in the desert
>complete lack of any strategic or logistical sense, sending his troops constantly ahead of his supply lines thus they end up being overextended and destroyed in a counterattack
>disobeyed his orders to hold the line in pursue of glory but got away with it because Hitler liked him for some reason
it seems that the only reason why he is revered so highly is because the british wanted everyone to think that they lost to some German ubermensch general, hiding their incompetence, and the Germans used him just the same
Rommel's legend was created in order to justify the re-arming of West Germany (part of the 'clean/elite Wehrmacht myth) and also to produce black propaganda to make excuses for British incompetence. He was also liked by Hitler because Rommel wasn't a typical Prussian aristocrat, who made up much of the Wehrmacht's officer corps.
Because he turned the war around in North Africa with only 3 German divisions, he knew he was never going to get to Suez but he figured he was tying down a lot of British forces in Africa
>>2980941
He was a national hero before he died, it's not a post war myth. Fuck off contrarians