What philosophy will unfuck my shit? can I read them without reading the greeks first?
>>2794917
>Without reading Greeks
Kids nowadays, I swear.
I weep for the future
Post-taoism
>>2794917
Yes, start with the Romans and become a Stoic
>Get your crooked-toothed, queen worshiping, tea drinking, black and tan wearing soldiers out of our country
How would you respond in this situation?
*blights your potatoes*
>>2794910
*immigrates to you*
>>2794906
I would prefer seeing the IRA terrorists removed first
How do you make Posca?
I have the day off and want to LARP as a Roman Republic Hastati for a while. Ive already made a shield from a huge pillow and a gladius from a yardstick and a pila from the mop. Now I need a wineskin (plastic bag) of posca
>>2794833
Don't forget the lead!
>>2794857
D'accord
posca cola
Rome had posca
bongs had tea
'murca has goga gola
What are the favorite drinks of the other great empires? What did the Han drink?
if women can just aim for a Man's groin to disable him..
i get that men are physically stronger, but couldn't women of done groin shots to prevent it
>>2794811
I'm not sure if this or the "nobody could get to Sardinia before the age of sail" is dumber.
you know, pretending to be retarded once is funny, but it gets a bit old after that.
you should at least wait a few weeks before repeating a joke.
>>2794827
im serious though, why arn't groin shots effective?
A discussion for such a mysterious civilization which managed to develop all by itself is more than needed
Arabs built it.
/thread
>>2794784
>tiny collection of literal huts surrounded by a crude wall
>civilization
>>2794784
Yes, because a few hundred feet of dry stone wall is about the most exciting and spectacular thing south Africans where able to develop by themselves.
>reading about Roman history
>"no way Augustus is the best emperor, he's only okay"
>read the rest of Roman history
>he really is the best emperor
>>2794743
He really was
>who is Vespasian
>who is Trajan
>who is Marcus Aurelius
>who is Constantine
>who is Justinian
>who is Basil II
"Augustus = best emperor" is a babby opinion
>>2795286
Fun fact, I had a gym teacher in high school that looked 100% like Vespasian.
all over the world you have pagan religions with similar pantheons. you can always find a culture with a sun god and a war god.
no one has ever found jews, christians, muslims, buddhist, or hindus somewhere that did not as of yet have contact with the outside world.
so does this mean the more primitive pagan religions are closer to the truth than the later developed religion?
>>2794635
The fuck?
>>2794660
aztec, greeks, japanese, egyptians, etc. they all have gods of the sun, war, harvest, etc. all with out any contact with each other that could spread the religion.
christians pop up in the levant and spread. yet you never find christians already existing in a place that christians have first arrived in. there were no christian abos, or christian incans before contact with the West.
now many civilians without contact with each other, develop the same math and sciences. everyone agreed upon 1+1=2 with out having to share the idea around. you never see a new civilization being discovered that thinks 1+1=3.
so the aztecs, egyptians, and the japanese all agree there is a sun god before contact. then does't this make their similar religions more likely to be true?
*exhales weed*
Ok /his/ you've defender Hitler in past but can you defend Oskar Dirlewanger, did he do nuffin?
This isn't /pol/, we know Hitler was a genocidal maniac
>>2794363
No.
there's no way to know those children didn't consent and it's safe to assume the Poles broke the NAP first when they answered fire
Who was in the wrong during the crusades ?
>>2794274
muslims
/thread/
Reminder that you can't /thread your own post, this applies to all people even to you who joined last month
Oh and, christians, think about it
>hey guys we hate each other right ?
>alright but what if we turned our hate towards this other country
>haha this is perfect
>wait guys why are you fighting each other
>o-oh alright maybe the second time then h-haha
on and on until they noticed that the problem came from their autistic LARPing and not by muslim troops being stronger
>>2794275
fpbp
/thread
What do?
>>2794261
Move to Virginia since I am Virginian.
Sure I am likely to die of illness or starve to death, but the chance of building a nation greatly appeals to me.
>>2794261
I actually read a theory that despite the common belief of dying to illnesses, we would have a natural resistance to all of the diseases as we are descendants of people who lived trough them. It was pretty interesting but I'm not an expert on the topic so I don't know if it's true or not. So your sad time travel fantasy of dying to disease wouldn't necessarily come true.
What kind of man in the late 15th century could afford a full harness/suit of plate and offer his services as a man at arms? Are there instances of non-gentrymen, like burghers, somehow acquiring the capital to serve as fully armoured professional warriors alongside aristocracy?
How flexible were classes in terms of military service?
Well, there are instances of burghers / merchant, who attained aristocratic rank thanks to the wealth they attained through trade. Such was a case of de la Pole family in 14th century England
By the late 15th munition plate armor was starting to become common. These were mass produced sets designed to counter the rise of the personal firearm and could be purchased by the average landsknecht. You still saw more expensive tailor made armors for nobility, commanders, or men-at-arms (whom was usually drawn from nobility) but mass production was starting to make plate far cheaper for the average mercenary band, so you saw a lot more people in plate as opposed to mail by the late 1400s and into the 1500s.
So yes, you would expect to see common mercenary bands in plate of varying degrees of quality by this era. It was still expensive, perhaps a month's wages or more even for cheap shit, but certainly doable. By the 1500's munition armor prices would collapse and become cheaper than mail at the bottom end.
>>2794215
>Are there instances of non-gentrymen, like burghers, somehow acquiring the capital to serve as fully armoured professional warriors alongside aristocracy?
Most of the Swiss army and the Swiss mercs serving in foreign services. Albeit thei used mostly 3/4 suits of armor.
In the 15th century they where one of the dominant military forces of Europe and steamrolled pretty much everybody else.
Why did USA become so imperialistic? When they invaded Cuba and Hawaii. Why did USA stop being isolationist and ''no goverment mentality''type?
[spoiler]What was the exact reason for USA invading Hawaii?[/spoiler]
And i failed with spoilers.
Growing power of industrial interests after the Civil War started to get the US into the game of milking money out of poorfag countries.
There was a brief pause from the Great Depression to WW2, and then it came back with a vengeance.
>>2794090
>Why did USA become so imperialistic?
A combination of moneyed interests and a desire to build an "empire of freedom"
>Why did USA stop being isolationist and ''no goverment mentality''type?
Meme. Despite the rhetoric America was never isolationist nor had anarchist sympathies.
>What was the exact reason for USA invading Hawaii?
$$$
Why are there so many misconceptions about Sparta? It seems like every other thing I read has them appear like regressive boogeymen worse than the Persians. And then you have those fucks that keep talking about how Spartans were gay, even though all textual evidence states the contrary.
>>2794040
Because they were. There Persians had culture and treated their citizens well. The Spartans left babies they didn't think we're tough enough to fight in a forest to die. Also, despite being considered the fathers of democracy, they were also where the word tyrant comes from
They literally were
Reminder that literally no primary sources from actual Spartans exist
>>2794228
>they were also where the word tyrant comes from
nah man, Peisistratos was characterised as a tyrant back then, we used that word differently.
ITT: Most just moments in history
the most JUST battle
>>2794012
>when you break from your oppressive overlords but they have the last laugh
why were greeks so gay
>>2793781
They are fighting, putting your penis in an man asshole is totally a good move to defeat an enemy
Because they're greek
>>2793781
it´s called wrestling, just a sport