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Reading 100 books per year tends to make you more knowledgeable than reading 3 books a year.
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reading too many publications causes a wash of information, and the glut of information you read is forgotten
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>>2949819
People who read more are also more likely to read better, leading to more information being kept.
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100 books per year...im doing well if i even read 20
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These are the ruins of Göbekli Tepe, an ancient temple unearthed atop a mountain ridge in Southeastern Anatolia. Built by a mysterious cult almost twelve thousand years ago, more time separates the people of ancient Sumer from that of Göbekli Tepe than separates the present day from ancient Sumer.
In conclusion, Turks may be descended from aliens.
ITT: we discuss early civilizations and/or megalithic cultures such as this
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>>2949766
B-b-but hunter gatherers could've just built it.
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>>2949766
The Turks were trying to domesticate horses in central asia as this was happening
t. Turk
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>>2949766
>more time separates the people of ancient Sumer from that of Göbekli Tepe than separates the present day from ancient Sumer.
jesus fucking christ. I think I'm starting to believe that atlantis was real.
What could've Iraq done here?
>urban warfare
>massive SCUD offensive
>blitzkrieg before enemy armies are deployed
>open gates strategy
>chemical weapons
>airstrikes into Israel to provoke Israeli retaliation and make Arab countries join their side
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>>2949574
Not invade Kuwait like Michael Bay Villain retards?
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You forgot the bit where he asked the US for permission and got it
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>>2949574
They had no possibility of winning, not least because the regime was wildly unpopular with the common Iraqi citizens. A regime that is loved by its people can TRY to pull a Viet Cong by setting up resistance cells to drag the war on until the attackers lose the will to continue, but a regime that is hated requires open displays of its strength and can't hope to survive such a one-sided invasion.
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ITT books that predicted the future
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>>2949564
The bible
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>>2949564
Did a much better job than 1984 (although to be fair 1984 wasn't about the future but rather a direct criticism of totalitarianism). Huxley himself lamented that he didn't foresee nuclear power, but I don't see that as a failing of the novel since it never mentioned where the World Society gets its power from anyway.
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What do you guys think of portuguese history? 2017-06-13 10:37:44 Post No.2949392
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What do you guys think of portuguese history?
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I am from Portugal and I love my country's history, I wanted to know what people from other countries think.
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>t. alberto barbarosa
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>>2949392
cucked to its core
Give me some good reasons why I shouldn't convert to Islam.
hard mode: no quoting random hadith
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>>2949221
god doesn't exist
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>>2949221
no pork no beer
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as I recall they chop off part of your dick, you're not allowed to drink any alcohol, enjoy pork, treat a woman like a human being, not blow yourself up, not dress like a bum, etc.
then there's the whole signing over your will to a gang of paedophiles and foreigners
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To what degree of control did Britain have over Afghanistan? Could one even say the Afghans were "conquered" at all?
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Hmm no replies, guess I'm right
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afghans are stongest people never conqured unlike br*tish
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>having hold over afghanistan
fire up google maps and look at afghanistan
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https://strawpoll.com/a7zx95x
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>>2949121
Post Jesus memes with your answer, unless iconoclast
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>>2949121
Does faggot op know what a primary source is?
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>I believe that the Jews have a mission in life. They must see to it that the nations of the world get together in one vast federation. "Union Now" is the beginning of this. Slowly but surely the world will develop into a paradise. We will have perpetual peace. And the Jews will do the most to bring about this confederation, because they have the most to gain. But how can you get peace if Germany exists? The only way to win an eternal peace is to make the punishment of waging war more horrible than war itself. Human beings are penalized for murder, aren't they? Well, Germany starts all the wars of magnitude. Let us sterilize all Germans and wars of world domination will come to an end!
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very nice
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>>2948933
>Ehrenburg
>Commisar
huh?
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>>2948908
He is not wrong
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Governed by one eternal law
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all that begins must end
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The reign of the old Shogunate is over!
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Why do German POWs look so happy to be captured?
It's almost like they were relieved to no longer have to slaughter people for their autistic psychopath of a "fuhrer".
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They were happy to
1) Get a way from their immediate superiors, many of whom were assholes.
2) Get captured by western allies rather than by the Russians.
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>>2948859
Maybe its part of the anti defetism ideology, so its like a coocky actitude
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>>2948882
This photo was taken after the Red Army captured Koenigsberg, the first major defeat on German territory for the Wehrmacht. Their captors and the people who took the photo were Red Army troops.
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All memes aside, what would Africa look like had it maintained a relatively non-violent relationship with the rest of (white) world? Let's not pretend that colonization didn't stunt growth, because it absolutely did.
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Better question would be what would it look like if the Arabs hadn't introduced slavery to the Europeans or what would it look like if the Arabs never enslaved them at all.
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>>2948829
>Let's not pretend that colonization didn't stunt growth, because it absolutely did.
This has been debunked so many times you should be shot for typing that.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w18162
"In this paper, we construct a new database on the European share of the population during colonization and examine its association with the level of economic development today. We find: (1) a strong and uniformly positive relationship between colonial European settlement and development, (2) a stronger relationship between colonial European settlement and economic development today than between development today and the proportion of the population of European descent today; and (3) no evidence that the positive relationship between colonial European settlement and economic development diminishes or becomes negative at very low levels of colonial European settlement, contradicting a large literature that focuses on the enduring adverse effects of small European settlements creating extractive institutions. The most plausible explanation of our findings is that any adverse effect of extractive institutions associated with minority European settlement was more than offset by other things the European settlers brought with them, such as human capital and technology."
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Pretty much like Indonesia/Papua New Guinea. Lots of natural tribal relations, but little development because of climate and geography. The best the continent could hope for would be for large states like Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa to reach the level of middle income countries like Mexico. They would never have the income to become "Western" welfare states, though.
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What are some great historical time periods that get little to no love by fictional writers?
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Early Middle Ages (from 500 to 1000 AD)
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Renaissance/Enlightenment. Medieval/Ancient seems to get tons of love.
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>>2948736
How many books are even written by fictional authors any way? Doesn't seem like a big problem.
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Economic Growth in Ancient Greece 2017-06-13 07:33:18 Post No.2948675
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Economic Growth in Ancient Greece
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>But instead of portraying a static, poor Greek economy, Ober’s new findings have shown that from about 1000 to 300 B.C., classical Greece had impressive rates of economic growth that were unparalleled by its contemporaries in antiquity.
>Together with a team of other Stanford scholars and students, the professor of classics and of political science digitized huge amounts of archaeological, documentary and literary data. Using these new tools, the team created analyses and visualizations that map out aspects of Greek life, such as how money circulated and how many people lived in cities versus small farms.
>At a certain point, Ober explained, the team compiled “a critical amount of evidence and recognized that the old story couldn’t be right.”
>So why was ancient Greece so prosperous compared to its contemporaries? In his new book, The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece, Ober links this unexpected prosperity to a relatively democratic, decentralized state system that allowed for innovation and cultural development.
>“Basically the answer to that is politics,” Ober argues. “The Greek world is distinctive in having this dispersed structure so that there are many, many independent states rather than a single empire – or rather than a few big and powerful states.”
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>>2948675
>>“Basically the answer to that is politics,” Ober argues. “The Greek world is distinctive in having this dispersed structure so that there are many, many independent states rather than a single empire – or rather than a few big and powerful states.”
So basically the HRE of antiquity.
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>>2948675
so was greece the ultimate anarcho-capitalist society? if you think about it the poleis wasn't even a formal government
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Aside from ninjas, what other groups from history or legend were famous for being extremely stealthy pre-20th century? Was Japan the only culture where this was a "thing"?
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>>2948586
The Assassins.
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>>2948586
Ulfsarks
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Indian thugees