Can you tell me about the Haiti Revolution with from an unbiased perspective (as much as you can get anyway)?
How'd it happen? Who were the commanders? How'd they win? What was life like for the Haiti people after that?
>>2740144
Never use slaves as soldier it willalways come back to night you in the ass.
>>2740144
Bunch of mixed autist sperging out
What was the point of The War on Drugs?
Did it work?
Attempt to surging drug abuse rates in the US, particularly in the inner city which is linked to nearly all crime there
hasn't worked, they will continue to abuse drugs and now the media glamorizes it and blames the police for trying to stop it even though drug violence kills thousands of blacks every year
>>2739967
The War on Drugs was a big failure. Prohibition doesnt work.
Read this:
https://www.aei.org/publication/milton-friedman-interview-from-1991-on-americas-war-on-drugs/
https://www.aei.org/publication/milton-friedman-interview-from-1991-on-americas-war-on-drugs/
>Pssshh . . . nothin' personal, yankee . . .
>>2739429
>the south likes John Wilkes Booth
When will this yankee meme end? Lincoln was going to send back the niggers.
>wait a minute that painting...
>>2739438
Straight out of bioshock infinite
Was the Korean war the only justified war the US has fought in since WWII? We essentially liberated the south and allowed it to become the capitalist powerhouse it is today.
Wasn't it the only war actually waged by the UN?
The two Koreas were on par until the late 70s and the average work a day south Korean is basically a slave despite all the glitz and glam foreign investment brought.
no we had UN intervention in the Gulf War
Where the fuck does this symbol come from? I've heard lots of Turkic, Arab and Byzantine theories and none seems really solid.
>>2738853
The Ottomans, you retard.
>>2738853
The One muslim Moon god.
>>2738853
Some say it comes from Constantinople, others from Turkic tribes, others from the Mongols and some think it came from pre-islamic Arabic gods.
There's a little bit of evidence for all of them but none are solid as I understand it.
Europeans were using it before it became popular in Islam.
https://youtu.be/wVk2B_Z8fEc
Is Buddhist Mindfulness compatible with Christianity?
>>2738032
Some think so, others dont
>>2738032
Some people may have opinions about this.
>>2738161
Ive studied Buddhism on and off for around two years. I just find it strange that (from my general knowledge of Christianity) there is no mention of meditation, or any sort of mental development. Mental development seems to me to be something crucial to include in a religion, because why follow a religion if you are not contempt on a spiritual level? Of course it could all be enveloped with having faith in God. And of course you have the Rosary prayer. It makes me question if mindfulness should be pursued, and if so, should I abandon the religion of my ancestors and embrace Buddhism?
What are some good resources to learn about this clusterfuck of an empire?
I have a buddy named Frank
>>2737022
Tell a French person that Charlemagne was German, they'll "educate" you on it.
>>2737022
Now you see why the dark ages are not a meme. Nobody can tell you anything about those times.
Why did the Jews start doing this? What's the significance of this little bit of tissue?
>>2736998
It's a desert religion thing.
>>2736998
You *do* get less infections if you're cut. You also get less infections if you bathe regularly. I suppose that bit was difficult for bronze age people.
>>2737019
Especially bronze age semi-nomads in the desert.
I am always bothered when studying human travel before the advent of trains and automobiles. In my state it would take 20 days of foot travel to reach my capitol, hell it would take 86 days to reach Washington DC and I honestly cannot fathom that sort of travel time. When I go on my commute and think that it would naturally take a day and a half to reach my job without car or rail, my mind can't really deal with it. I don't understand how human society can function with humans only being able to travel 30 miles a day. I know it had to function since the did that exact thing but it weirds me out.
I understand that most people wouldn't have ventured farther than 15 miles from their place of birth, but even on an administrative level it becomes ridiculous. How do you manage a state when it would take an entire season just to deliver messages? How did ethnicity's even form when people of the same ethnic group might as well be on a different planet? Horses don't help much either because their main benefit is the loads they can carry since their walking speed isn't much faster than a humans and you can't run them everywhere. How autistic did the romans/chinese/mongols have to be to leave their homes for years possibly decades just for one military campaign and manage those logistics?
>reading history book written before 1850
>the author peppers their sentences with untranslated French and Latin
>How autistic did the romans/chinese/mongols have to be to leave their homes for years possibly decades just for one military campaign?
Mostly they did it looking for loot and new women to rape I'd guess. Plus if you live in a wind swept shit hole like Mongolia, the prospect of leaving home indefinitely probably doesn't sound so bad.
>>2736796
Then again. I guess I'm not taking into account river and ocean travel. I guess if a man can row at least 10 miles per hour on a river or calm seas then that would really help travel times. Also I forget about systems like the pony express or that system the Incas had which helps messaging and at least on flat roads horses can travel 40 miles a day whereas a human can only really go 30.
It is still mind blowing but not quite as much so as I had initially thought.
> successfully defended for 1000 years
Has there been any nation as impenetrable as this in history?
How have they managed to do it?
>>2736637
1066
1326
1688
>>2736637
>Romans
>Anglos
>Saxons
>Jutes
>Frisians
>Danes
>Vikings
>Dutch
Britain is literally the town bycicle of the North Sea, it's harder to name the Germanic peoples that DIDN'T conquer England at one time or another.
>>2736728
Forgot the Normans
Craziest and most unusual deaths in history
>Uesugi Kenshin
>Stabbed in the ass by a dwarf ninja hiding under his toilet for 3 days
>>2735759
Edmund "Ironside" II
Official: died of infected battle wounds in his ass.
Unofficial: Died after awnsering the call of nature, where allegedly an assasin waited for him below and stabbed him to death in the rectum.
>>2735759
No fucking way. Guess I'll read more weeb history, shit made me laugh
>>2735759
Does that mean he didn't go to the toilet for 3 days?
ITT: The best works of art of all time, starting with the best of the best.
anyone giving their kids historical names?
My wife and I are going to name our daughter Lesbia for lack of an alternative. Can anyone think of any others?
>>2732364
If this isn't bait then I'm so sorry for your daughter.
>>2732364
Oh god don't do this.
I've thought about it a little and the only one I can think of that doesn't sound like autistic LARP-ing is Alex/Alexander
>>2732364
I'm thinking about going the Nixon race use and naming my kids after historical English kings like Edward Longshanks.
The Roman """""""Empire"""""""""""
yeah
>>2731079
Rule over unpopulated land is meaningless.
Its just easy to take over an area where villages have a distance of 100 kilometers between them.
>>2731079
>One lasted 100 years before crumbling apart, and made virtually no contributions to society except the gene pool and opening relations between the west and east
>The other lasted 2000 years and contributed virtually everything we hold dear
They did nothing wrong
>>2728779
Turns out, you can't run an Empire on the basis of race hatred alone.
I'm not saying they did
>>2728809
Who did they hate?