>>2686231
OP said alternative history, not reality
>>2686238
It is alternate though, it still has Scotland.
>writing a research paper on Chemical weapons usage in WWI
>Having nightmares about young men my age and slightly older and younger than myself choking to death and writhing in pain, contorting themselves, tearing at their flesh and looking like rabid animals
I need something positive to get me through this.
Please post instances where humanity proved it can act in a decent and upright manner. I need something to prove that mankind is not the worst creature to walk the earth.
>>2686048
>I need something positive
Wrong fucking universe asshole.
And "mankind" doesn't exist. We're coalitions and families of apes with differing goals and differing faculties of judgment.
You sound like some Buzzfeed faggot.
>>2686062
Almost cut myself on that edge faggot....
>>2686062
Are you ok anon? Do you need a hug?
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain. What are some historical figures whom this applies to, /his/?
>>2685977
Caesar
>>2685977
>>2685977
Napoleon
What did each nation bring to the table for their alliance? Entente and Central Power. Did any of nation do more than others?
Just a reminder
>The Triple Entente
Gr. Britain
France
Russia
Italy
Romania
Japan
Greece
Serbia
with many more
>The Central Powers
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Bulgaria
>>2685716
Entente
>Britain
Navy and logistics
>France
High quality soldiers
>Russia
Wave after wave of low quality soldiers
>the rest
Irrelevant / Partizans
Central Powers:
>Germoney
Soldiers, logistics, industry
>the rest
Useless cowardly "soldiers" and failure
>>2685716
>pre balkan wars turkey
>turkish cyprus
No.
Anyone knows why Spain didnt go to war?
>>2685577
>>2685577
I've been working on an Shah Ismail painting and I need to do a ton of historical pieces for this art thing I'm in. Could you guys recommend any interesting historical characters or concepts to draw? Preferably kind of dark or grim in nature.
>>2685562
>>2685562
when hasdrubal realizes carthage is lost in the third punic war
>>2685562
>Preferably kind of dark or grim in nature.
The assassination of Mursili I by his brother after Mursili's successful Sack of Babylon.
What makes something funny? Why do some things illicit amusement and others don't?
How can someone craft something funny? Can jokes be crafted or only found?
Who are the most (intentionally) funny pre-modern people, especially writers?
>>2685204
Funniness is derived from surprise and/or subversion, or more complicatedly, when something makes us learn in a clever way. This comes from a number of sources. For example, let's say fart jokes. Some people might laugh at these because you wouldn't expect such rude things as farts to show up in polite company; it's surprising, and therefore funny. Other people might not like fart jokes however because they're trite and overdone to the point where we got sick of them when we were younger. There's also schadenfreude which is a mix of this and more things, which is why things like slapstick works.
Our brains like to learn, and jokes make us learn in a roundabout way. That's why jokes make us happy. Jokes teach us about connections between two things that we'd never thought would be connected. For example puns may use wordplay between two different words or phrases. But if a joke is made too many times, you don't learn any new connections, it's the same one, which is why jokes get old.
>>2685311
If learning new things in surprise was all that it took, then wouldn't textbooks be the funniest thing ever, rather than the dullest thing ever?
>>2685311
>Jokes teach us about connections between two things that we'd never thought would be connected
like your penis and a girls vagina ?
Visited an exposition on bronze art from pre-colonial Benin, will post most interesting stuff.
Statue of a shaman
Warrior with a bow
Statue of a ruler
What does /his/ think of afrocentrism? Is their any truth in it? Why has the rise of afrocentrists seems to have doubled the last years
Afrocentrism is just as bad as eurocentrism
>>2685112
Afrocentrism is a reactionary movement intended to counter both perceived and real eurocentrism. While it's got hints of justification - there are plenty of examples of African history that have been incorrectly examined, downplayed, or even covered up entirely (looking at you, Rhodesia) as late as the past half-century - like many reactionary movements, it takes things too far.
At its best, it's a revisionist movement for areas of history that really do need a second look. At it's worst, it's quasi-nationalistic appropriation of various histories in the same way plenty of cultures have done over history.
>>2685118
Afrocentrism is far worse because it's so much less accurate.
White people actually did live in Europe, make the European states, etc.
Blacks did not fucking live in Europe, China, Mexico, etc. founding literally every fucking society.
FURTHERMORE
BY THE WAY
>>2685060
TRVE ROMAN BREAD FOR TRVE ROMANS
>>2685060
MOCKING OF THE JEWS AND THEIR ONE GOD, SHALL BE KEPT TO AN ACCEPTABLE LEVEL
From what I can tell he was at least secular, but it seems like he was autocratic in a way that pushed people toward religion if they wanted to revolt
Which one, you mean Mohammed Reza Pahlavi?
My impression is that he's a Willy-tier failiure from pop culture
>>2685042
Objectively false. While nowhere near as based as his father, he was (at least towards the end of his reign) an ardent nationalist and good leader.
>>2684999
It's not so much that he pushed people toward religion, but that while he was deaf to the wants of his people the clerics stepped up to tell the people what they wanted to hear.
Just thinking about this, but has any other country BTFO of their leaders as much as America?
>>2684696
try any country in europe more so with ones that had a monarchy
dumb faggots killed one another left and right to get a throne
any country with a history that spans more than 200 years
seriously compared to most nations of Europe America played nicely with their leaders.
>>2684696
Pakistan has killed 5 of it's heads of state. 4 of them while in office.
>Founder (Jinnah) was not given healthcare by his closest ''''friends''''' in 1948
>First prime minister (Liaquat Ali Khan) was shot In 1950
>The first democratically elected President (Bhuttofag) was overthrown in 1977 and hung in 1979
> The guy who killed him (Zia UL Haq) was blown up in 1988
>Bhutto's daughter (Benazir) was blown up during a speech by her husband who became the president (2007)
Will we ever be able to establish a society like ancient Greece ever again?
>>2684667
depends on the justice system
stick Lloyd Blankfein as chief justice of wherever we decide to plan it anyway
options:
>retake constantinople
>east side of switzerland
>transylvania
>antarctica
>svalbard
im outta ideas
In some virtual reality/post-scarcity world maybe. You just need leisure time for dining and philosophizing, assemblies of all citizens for important decisions, and ample supply of boipussy.
>>2684667
Provided we reoriented the economy back to slavery and fractured our political structures to the point of hyper-regionalist city states, I don't see why not. It probably won't happen in our lifetimes, but I can imagine the survivors of a nuclear apocalypse building this kind of society, just as the Greeks themselves built it out of the ashes of the bronze age collapse.
Why did the Anglo Saxon and later Vikings convert to Christianity? It seemed such a weak religion and with more restrictions than Germanic Paganism.
>>2684617
>It seemed such a weak religion
Might want to check up on your history there.
>>2684617
Whites were afraid of getting conquered again.
Old English:
ōs byþ ordfruma ǣlcre sprǣce
wīsdōmes wraþu and wītena frōfur
and eorla gehwām ēadnys and tō hiht
god is the origin of all language
wisdom's foundation and wise man's comfort
and to every hero blessing and hope
Why isn't America more regionalist? It's huge. It can't be all because of the civil war, can it?
TV and unified pop culture industry I guess?
Even still it's still pretty regionalist
>>2684570
Define regionalist?
>Deep South
>Miami/Puerto Rico
>Appalachia
>Chesapeake bay
>New england
>Tristate area
>Great Lakes/St. Lawrence
>Inland and delta of the Mississippi watershed
Moving further west it does get less and less regionalist, and its more dominated by single cities, i.e. Denver, Vegas, LA, etc. Northwest coast is pretty regional though, same goes for the central Californian cities.
>TV and unified pop culture industry I guess?
Pretty much this most of the world today has American pop culture digging into it you'd think ground zero would feel the blunt of it.
though obviously there's a big difference between for example New England and the Deep South