Name something that /his/ would teach in a college course about history if we ran one as a collective.
>>2646679
The holohoax
From Ass to Blast: The History of Shitposting in the Meme Era, 2012-2017 (20 credits)
>>2646679
HIS 112: the holocaust didnt happen (but it would be cool if it did)
>Roman Pantheon
>Colosseum
>Nimes Arena
>Arch of Trajan
>Arch of Constantine
>Porta Nigra
>Porta Palatina
>Mausoleum of Hadrian/Castel Sant'Angelo
>Pont du Gard
>Alcántara Bridge
Am I missing any other outstanding surviving examples of Roman architecture and engineering?
>>2646664
Pyramid of Cestus
Hadrian's Wall
Baths of Diocletian
The Mausoleum of Galla Palcidia is pretty dope
>>2646674
Oh yeah this. Also, the Cistern of Justinian, Theodosian Walls and a whole bunch of shit in Constantinople also.
Is Livius.org a good resource to learn about ancient history? Is it more in-depth than just wikipedia articles?
Pic not particularly related
>>2646610
It's authoritative. But it's not the sort of thing you just browse.
Great website. Totally forgot about it. Thanks anon.
Thanks for sharing it!
If anyone knows other sites about ancient history, post them!
How do you go from this
to this
to this
>>2646414
To this ?
Were the confederates ideological revolutionaries?
take the moral question of slavery out of the question and look at it like this.
The country is growing bigger with more openly hostile towards you. Youre economy is booming, but it seems the Federal Government is moving closer and closer to ending it all+youre losing any and all clout within this government to stop it. And the founding fathers have established the idea that a corrupt and all powerful government is justified in being cast off/overthrown.
So you have all this, the age old rivalry between Federalist s Ant-Federalist (now in the form of Republican vs Democrat) and not to mention the cultural difference which meant one half of the country hated the other half and vice versa. So these states saw all of this and said "fuck it, lets just leave"
The Confederates weren't losing political clout with the federal government.The reason Lincoln won the 1860 election was that the Democrats had split their vote between Douglas and Breckenridge.Plus in Lincoln's inaugural address he basically says he's not going to mess with slavery.
>sole purpose of succession is to preserve the system in place
no
>>2646388
>The Confederates weren't losing political clout with the federal government
yes they were. The newly acquired western territories were all going to be free states, so free states would astly out number slave states.
Lincoln was an avid abolitionist, and they knew it was only a matter of time before it happened.
How can I introduce myself to religious studies? Which author do you recommend?
>>2646360
Religious studies as a theologian or as a historian?
>>2646930
More as an historian. However, I might be more interested in the sociological or anthropological issues regarding religion.
Do you have areas of particular interest? Religious studies is a field where everybody specializes in something. There aren't really people that write about it generally.
THERE LIVED A CERTAIN MAN IN RUSSIA LONG AGO
>>2646336
HE WAS BIG AND STRONG IN HIS EYES A FLAMING GLOW
MOST PEOPLE LOOKED AT HIM WITH TERROR AND WITH FEAR
>>2646336
BUT TO MOS-COW CHICKS HE WAS SUCH A LOVELY DEAR
At what age did you grow out of socialism?
For me it was my mid 20s
>Be early 20 year old know it all
>Call myself a socialist
>Anti capitalism
>Muh free healthcare
>Muh globalism
>Muh equality
>Get first real job
>Start making money
>Hit new tax brackets gradually
>Hmm well this kind of sucks, I'm losing like 25k a year
>No big deal I guess government is important
>Get married and buy A house, combined income approached
200k we started off each making under 30k
>Sweet, we worked real hard and can afford luxuries and traveling as well as a nest egg for our future children.
>See people around us complaining about not getting enough gimmedats
>College kids majoring in gender studies and demanding free education and free health Care.
>Realize, literally if you plan and work hard you can actually make money and live comfortably in a capitalist society
>>2646274
>tfw a welfare leech
Guess that I'll be a commie untill the day I die.
Same for me but i got my first job when i was 18 you fucking commie
>>2646274
Still a socialist in a socialist country
>free healthcare
>free education
Life is great
What was his endgame?
>>2646123
To replace Stalin.
Why are there very few Spanish and Portuguese scientists or philosophers compared to the English, the French, the Germans and even Italians, despite being comparable powers throughout history?
>>2646087
because science is gay, philosohy is useless and the industrial revolution was a mistake
>>2646101
Not a good answer
I can name tens of French chemists, English physicians and German mathematicians but can't name a single Spanish one. Why?
Because the Reformation was an important step toward individual autonomy, putting an end to mental control and dogma
Of course, the Enlightenment was the culmination of this new search for truth, knowledge, and rational thinking.
Why has Christianity historically placed so much emphasis on belief as opposed to ethics and law.
Judaism, obviously, is a system of laws that relegates belief to a few critical precepts and leaves the continuum of elaborated belief to the subject of opinion or personal insight.
Islam, the same, while placing some emphasis on belief in Muhammad as a prophet, the prophets being divinely inspired and perfect in their teachings, and in accordance to some of the narrative concerning the establishment of the faith, still places the majority of its focus on law and ethics.
Christianity, in its development, rushed to form councils to pass creeds of faith and then elaborated those creeds to incorporate saints (in the case of Catholic Church) and seems to drone on and on about believing the metaphysical claims of the respective Churches.
Why?
>>2646020
they had to incorporate pagan religions all over Europe into Christianity and they got into fights every step of the way , such as the holy trinity
>>2646056
You don't understand Christian theology. The trinity is a core part of Christian doctrine. They could have gone Arianism root but chose not to do to conviction. It has nothing to do with pleasing pagans who in most cases were so primitive they didn't even concept of god beyond a physical tree.
Christian ethics are about becoming God, so the doctrine of Christ as God and man, since he is the medium of our transformation, was always vital.
Why is it okay to talk about any and all conquests here as long as they aren't Turkish?
Is /his/ a double) standard board?
>>2646019
Moderators are only human, and are thus subject to biases. Most, if not all mods are white.
>>2646019
This board fears the Turkish ubermensch.
>>2646019
It still hurts after all the time, so please dont mention it anymore
Defend Cold War–era foreign policy
American foreign policy, that is.
Communism is evil and stopping it justifies lesser evils.
>>2645950
It was necessary to restrict democracy in the Eastern Bloc to prevent imperialist subversion
Is there any way to defend the imperialism of King Leopold II? Did he do anything even remotely defendable like build infrastructure or educate the populace? Was there any net economic benefit to the Congo from his actions?
>>2645941
Yes, he's actually largely remembered as "the builder king" due to his public works projects.
Likewise, in the Congo they remember him for ending "Arab Slavery" (probably not actual Arabs, but rather various Muslim Africans).
It's only Western SJWs who remember him so negatively.
>>2645960
Oh wow. I had assumed that other European powers had ended the slave trade in Africa prior to him. That's a pretty good thing then.
What do you mean by the builder king? Were these the projects he sponsored in Belgium or did he also do these in the Congo?
>>2646000
He didn't end the slave trade, he enslaved the locals himself.
How could the USSR have been salvaged?
>>2645918
-World Revolution over socialism in one country.
-Less Bureaucracy
-Actual socialism instead of state capitalism
>>2645918
By filling the government up with more hard line stalinists and not capitalist roaders.
>>2645918
If only Trotsky had taken control, there would be socialism worldwide.