According to popular history Egyptian laborers subsisted on a diet of beer and onions. Literally how is that a feasible way of surviving backbracking work in sweltering heat?
they had sun dried fish and bread too
Beer has a lot of calories you dolt
They also ate lots of bread. Bread and beer combined are calorie-bombs. Shouldn't be surprising that these were the two most consumed products in history.
What's the most important historical book in your country?
Post image, please
>Glory of Duchy of Carniola
>indepth detail of lands, lives, folklore, tradition, and culture of 17th century Slovenians
>took 300+ years to translate because German language today is different then back then
Not really a historic text but
>The Lusiads
>Written in Homeric fashion, the poem focuses mainly on a fantastical interpretation of the Portuguese voyages of discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries. Os Lusíadas is often regarded as Portugal's national epic, much as Virgil's Aeneid was for the Ancient Romans, or Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for the Ancient Greeks. It was written when Camões was an exile in Macau and was first printed in 1572, three years after the author returned from the Indies.
It's fucking beautiful to be honest
>>3346565
Written by a fellow Missourian no less.
>>3346664
Context please?
Why did the Chinese do this /his/? Did not one of them think this might have been a bad idea, the repercusions?
>>3346549
Do or die.
>>3346575
Do and die.
>>3346575
So Mao threatened the population with Military intervention if they didn't do as he said?
Who or what caused the Thirty Years war?
Jesus.
Jews
>>3346506
Martin Luther.
I had an argument with a school teacher who stated:
>Women can't be sexist
>Black people can't be racist
Was she right?
>>3346480
Only if redefine the words, thus de-legitimatizing the concepts they represent and alienating people who sympathize with your viewpoints. SJWs have hurt the left much more than any alt-right faggotry.
>>3346480
Some Marxist cunt in some American university in the 1970s tried to redefine the word "racism" to mean "prejudice plus power" instead of simply "prejudice against other races". So SJW are trying to hold onto that mantra and then get pissy when it never catches on.
>>3346480
Most teachers aren't very intelligent.
Materialists BTFO
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>>3346409
Mickey's logical flaw is conflating absurdity with a lack of credibility. Just because chemical explanations are absurd doesn't mean they aren't accurate.
>>3346522
Fuck off, this is a more appropriate thread than over half that are on here
While the West plays 2-D chess, China plays 3-D chess.
>>3346304
The cartels, Illegal immigration, heroin epidemic, the funding source for the U.S agency in charge of eliminating communist governments that could rival Chinese power if allowed to succeed.
It was all them
>>3346311
Your image says Chinese got btfo of the drug trade so who really played whom?
And whomst introduced them to the poppy?
They seem like such a perfect pairing
>>3346241
I don't see it.
>>3346241
After reading Spengler I realized that Brits and Germans are basically complete opposites. Shame Hitler didn't realize this sooner instad of trying to be an Angloboo.
because brits weren't retarded and knew any alliance with germany in ww1 or 2 would be giving them the entire continent
Why is western society so androgynous compared to others?
Women wear pants
Men wear long hair
Women wear men's clothes
Fashion companies are pushing makeup on men
Neither gender has specific roles, like housewife or breadwinner, associated with it
What are the historical causes of this and why? Why does western society hate gender roles?
>>3346145
>Men wear long hair
This isn't really an exclusively western trait. As for the rest, it's because of women. They ruin civilizations.
>>3346145
>out
That's a LGBT magazine isn't it
*blocks your path*
>>3346046
Order frontal assault with no intelligence of what's behind ridge.
>>3346046
dumb nigger like most union generals who got crutched by having overwhelming resources/""""capitalize"""" on enemy chimp-outs.
>>3346744
*gets anaconda'd*
Was there ever a bigger Byzaboo in history?
>>3346034
He was a Romaboo, he hated gr*ks.
>>3346034
It's like the retard that petted the kitteh too hard and wonders why the kitteh won't purr anymore.
>>3346062
he was half Greek himself you silly t*rk
tell me the entire history of humanity
>>3345925
>Dicks should have gone in pussy
>But all too often, they went in the butt.
Guy learns one weird trick on how to stop a clog that kills an erection and basically you're fucking stupid.
>>3345925
Kill.Die
How did Germany go from near-worthless currency (pic related) and debt-riddled poverty to a prosperous world power in a matter of years?
No /pol/ bs, let's talk details about the economic system; what new ideas did they bring to the table, did it work, and could it work again? (This time without the military being the main economic and labor consumer)
>>3345827
Very simple. Erhardt reforms.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/GermanEconomicMiracle.html
A fuckton of borrowing and spending on military projects, with absolutely no intention of paying it back.
>>3345843
That's after WWII to today. Okay.
As for so-called Nazi economics there was no miracle. Just natural post-recession recovery, mediocre but sane policy by Hjalmar Schacht undermined by Goering who supported war economy (which at least helped the unemployment). Basically it was a bubble with a significant debt ready to burst that required military actions.
I fixed Europe :)
>>3345768
Who in the fuck lied to you that Bulgarians want anything to do with FYROM anymore?
does anyone have a template for Europe?
I see a lot of praise for Battlefield, a documentary TV series from PBS.
Some professors and students I've talked to as well as posters on this board seems to have high regards for this series.
I know The Great war Channel and Apocalypse WW1/WW2 is also held in high regard but is there any documentary out there that meets Battlefield's standards?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_(TV_series)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120926/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTu8nanTJo7HH32t6iduZN_Ji5uQUR_SA Series playlist, not all episodes are here.
>>3345750
I've heard that Battlefield whitewashes some mistakes made by the Allies but I haven't seen enough.
And I don't know about Apocalypse WWII. It repeats some of the old myths and inacuracies like it was made 50 years ago. I'd stay away from it. It's almost impossible to find a good all-encompassing WWII series. World at War came the closest. Still not perfect but the best of the bunch.
>>3345761
You mean the Scandinavian episode?
>>3346097
I usually get angry by the first episode. I think Apocalypse was the one with "brave stupid Poles charging tanks"
It's the WWII version of Princip's sandwich. Also a plague of many otherwise good documentaries.