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Eternal G*rman backstabbed them by entering the war too early when they said they weren't prepared for it yet.

>>2694555
Modern army needs a productive heavy industry.
A productive heavy industry requires high amounts of certain resources.
Italy is and has always been a very resource poor country due several geological reasons.
For example, at the beginning of the 20th century, the united kingdom was producing something like 200 million tons of coal per year. Italy, something like 400 thousands. 400k vs 200 M
Add to that incompetent generals and you have poorly lead, poorly equipped soldiers. Can't do shit with them.

>>2694555
They couldn't produce shit.
>>2694560
Italy didn't declare war when Germany did.
Retard Mussolini was told to join in when Italy was ready but being a retarded terroni, he joined way too soon when Italy couldn't even equip half of their army with proper guns.

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>>2694501
Wow. You're so enlightened. Your awareness of the inevitability of death and the mortality of man is incredibly impressive and unique for someone of your age.

Truly I salute you.

>>2694501
>19 year old thinks people will evolve into ants in his lifetime

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>>2694501
>pic related

Comfy

They are not dramatic enough to get place in media. But yeah, Euros, Iranians, Arabs, Mongols, Chinese and Indians. Lance armed heavy cavalry is what usually wins wars. Unless English bowman and mud screw you over.

>>>/k/

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>>2694541
>forgetting A Knights Tale

How did they get away with this?

>>2694271
>Is the same going to happen to Adolf Hitler in for example 200 years?

It's very, very unlikely. He destroyed any sense of moral high ground that Germany had, and led to its centuries old traditions of militarism and pride being dismantled after just 12 years of inept rule. He will be seen over time as wounds heal less as evil, and more just a complete fool who permanently turned Germany into a laughing stock.

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>>2694271
Maybe some of his ideologies, but not him as a person. He was too much of a cuck tbqh

depends on english succession

>>2694180
A longsword refers to any sword that is plain fucking long. Be they single handers, bastard, or two hander swords.

A bastard sword is a longsword you could use either one handed or two handed. Also called "hand and a half" swords.

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>>2694190
Yep, Threads over now.

>>2694190
t. Videogames

A sword you use with one hand is called an arming sword
A sword you use with two hands is a longsword

Any other denominations are straight out of D&D

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>Augustus - I wonder why one would split up the empire before abdicating
>Diocletian - It was a big empire
>Augustus - For you

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Augustus would probably be slightly jealous that Diocletian reformed the empire away from the pretence of "muh republic" and straight up just admitting "yeah bruh i'm actually not merely first citizen, but your fucking emperor". He might have been confused at Diocletian trying to save the economy through improving the currency but that was because ancients had no understanding of basic economic theory. I also expect Augustus would have been shocked by the rise of Diocletian's bureaucracy but impressed at him abdicating. Alternatively he may have seen the abdication as either weakness, or a misstep giving the other generals a chance to fuck the Roman Empire up again under people like Constantinus Chlorus and Maximius.

Diocletian, from far more rustic and military Balkan stock than the intellectual and ambitious Italian Augustus, probably would have come across as somewhat lowbrow to Augustus. I expect they would have gotten on though. Diocletian likely would have seen Augustus as the greatest thing since sliced bread for ending the Roman civil wars of the 1st century BC since that was exactly what Diocletian was (mostly) successful at attempting and doing himself. Both of them are quite possibly the greatest of Roman emperors for the sole reason that they actually made an effort. They didn't just do what was expected of them for that time and actually bothered to go out of their way to try and improve what they saw as a state in decline.

TL;DR: They probably would hardly have recognised each others' empires, but would probably have appreciated each other as great figures.

>>2694330
good summary reply anon, thank you.

>>2693037
A shift in the teaching of reading, from the idea that you learn by reading something slightly too difficult for you to understand at first, to 'See Dick run. Run, Dick, run.' Learning is more effective when the material is actually interesting.

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>>2693054
Reading in most English speaking countries is still taught relatively the same way using synthetic phonics, which start by teaching you letters, then the sounds letters make, then the sounds combined letters make in syllable sequences, then how to combine those sequences to make words. Children then and now were taught using simple sentences, which got gradually more and more complicated as they mastered reading.

For a good example of this, look at this early reader primer from 1897: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14640/pg14640-images.html

It goes from teaching children to read

>The dog. The dog ran.

to more complex, several sentence story about Chippy, the best chicken. There were 4 more readers in the series which, similar to "Step into reading" style books, get more complex the older the children were.

IMO the reason why people have this perception of children's books being so difficult in the past compared to now is because the children's books that have stayed in popular memory are the books aimed at older child readers. Simpler books from the 19th century were so basic and very similar to very basic children's books in the early modern era. But without the full-page illustrations that ended up making them iconic/memorable in the nostalgia market.

>>2693037
There's a little truth in it, however it's something that's been subject as much to fashion and trends as it has to rising or declining standards.
Walter Scott was originally seen as an adult novelist, then as Romanticism declined he was seen as more suitable for children. Today he's seen as an adult author again.

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I'm dumping the ones I've found with some potential as an inspiration. It doesn't have to be modeled off the pianting as much as an "understandable interpretation"

Solidified the schism

>>2692637
Don't you mean Thomism?

>>2692754
call it by its real name lad

doth there be any who covld'ft claim victory oer Madara Vchiha? Confider that I doth refer to Rinne Tenfei Madara Vchiha bearing hif Mangecyov Sharingan of Longevity, with the Hero's mighty Rinnegan, a fublime fusano’o and a divine ability of control of the mythical juubi and the olde Gedov Mazov.

Nice Naruto reference!

Sharingan!!! :D

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Hwæt sǣdest þū efne ymb mē, þū litel bicce? Iċ forlǣte þē witan, þæt ic fōr ēhst on mīnre mæġðe on þām Sǣferdes Seohlum, ond ic nam dǣl on maniġum diernefeohtum wið Æl-Cæġdan, and ic acwealde ofer CCC weras. Iċ cann gorillacampdōm ond iċ eom se besta fyrdrinc on þæra GRA fird. Þū eart mē nān þing, būtan ōðre targe. Iċ fucking ofslēa þē mid þisse ēorðan unġecūðum cræfte, þis fucking swere iċ. Þū belīfest, þæt þū mē mæġst secgan þā scite on weoruldwidum webe? Edþenċe, þū fuckere. Amang þæm þe wit spreċað, iċ spreċe mid mīnum diernesæterum and þīn IP wierð nū huntod, þus scoldest þū þē gegearwian for þǣm storme, þū maða. Se storm þe ofslīhð þæt lytel þing þe þū þīn līf nemnest. Þū fucking eart dead, ċild. Iċ mæġ wesan on ǣniġre stōwe on ǣniġre tīde, ond iċ mæġ þē seofonhundtēontiġ þēawa ofslēan, ond þæt is ǣnliċe mīnum barum hondum. Iċ ne cann ǣnliċe wel orlege, iċ geāgnie ēac hāl GRA fird on mīnum folmum and iċ brūce hit fylle for þīnne brōclīċ ears of lande tō ofsleanne, þū lytel scite. Ġif þū ānfalde cūðest witan, hwelċe unhāliġe ageldung þē cwōme of þīnum lytlum “geapum” bēote, hit mæġ wesan þæt þū hine ne sæġde. Ac þū sæġdest hine, and nū þū agildest, þū Godaniðerod unwita. Iċ ġescitie graman on þē and þū besencest on him. Þū eart fucking dead, ċildoc.

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>>2692586
>Hittites

>>2692586
what can you tell me about the day to day life of commoners in Mesopotamia circa 1300 BC?

A. T. Olmstead's History of the Persian Empire covers a good amount of ground on Babylon, and was a wonderful introduction for me. Where should I go from there - any recs lads?

>Lee
There's your answer right there.

>>2692328
Goddamn Burnside.

>>2692328
Burnside seems like a terrible general. Am I wrong?

smaller the length and girth, the smarter they were.

>>2692221
talk about positive reassurance compared to today

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>>2692221
Then why wasn't Hitler proud of his "small" endowment?

the scandi pantheon is just taken from the German

the German pantheon is just taken from the scandi

>>2692178
Get you some texts on Voudon, which I probably just spelled incorrectly.

It depends on the decade, but it always seems to be somewhere within the last four years. As far as America goes in terms of "years that were the most representative of their respective decade", this is what I would personally say, starting from the 1920s:
>'20s = 1929
>'30s = 1936
>'40s = 1946
>'50s = 1959
>'60s = 1967
>'70s = 1976
>'80s = 1987
>'90s = 1999
>'00s = 2007
>'10s = 2016 (presumably)

>>2692068
Starting at 1800
>04
>15
>20
>32
>46
>50
>65
>79
>83
>98
>08
>14
>25
>33
>45
>57
>68
>77
>89
>92
>01

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>tfw outside of certain minor fashion trends the year 2000 is basically indistinguishable from present day
For serious man the only change I've noticed is that black people started wearing clothes that fit.