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Who has the strongest claim to Frankish ancestry? Flemish, Dutch, Germans or French?
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in modern times it's all so mangled it doesn't matter, but I'm going with the french.
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Either Dutch or French.
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They split into French and Germans.
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Is China the most autistic country in history? 2017-04-03 03:17:24 Post No.2605886
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Is China the most autistic country in history?
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>created primitive logographic writing, then kept it all the way to modern times even after literally everyone else switched to phonetic/syllable writing instead
>create Confucianism, a philosophy which teaches that Heaven wants you to be a robot and live in the past and everything will be fine; and Legalism, a philosophy that teaches that everyone is an asshole and only ludicrous quantities of punishment can keep things running
>created a meritocratic examination system based on memorizing ancient Confucian texts, kept the came curriculum for centuries with no modernization even after the language they were written in died and it was no longer for for purpose
>keep insisting on empirical nonsense like qigong and dietetics and TCM, that people still believe in today, that you can obtain a degree in at a so-called "medical school", and that people swear by over Western medicine, centuries after they should have learned the scientific method from the West
>created a massive fleet of treasure ships to re-open trade after the Mongol dynasty ended, then scuttled it instead of launching the Age of Exploration a couple of centuries early
>insist that each dynasty is a natural continuation of the previous one, even though they had different geographic power bases, different cultures, and different languages, and that the constant unification and collapse of the country is a natural cycle dictated by Heaven
>every few decades some dumb shit happens like a Taoist guy tells everyone he can do magic, some dude who failed his exams claims to be the brother of Jesus Christ, two dudes disagree on the price of bamboo, or a fat bastard tells the farmers to kill all the sparrows, and and this instantly creates mass chaos that leaves tens of millions dead
>the first emperor drank himself to death on mercury, then buried himself in a tomb filled with rivers of mercury making a map of china
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Shut up, Ping
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>>2605886
Yes.
Why else do you think they never built any great world spanning empires or did anything meaningful while white peoples have?
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no the British is
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Classics/Clasical Languages General? 2017-04-03 03:16:38 Post No.2605881
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Classics/Clasical Languages General?
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I don't think I've ever seen one here, but I was thinking that a classical languages general would be pretty neat to have.
I think it'd be cool to have a thread for anons studying classics and/or classical languages or for anons interested in it in general to have a thread to congregate towards.
The language scope would focus primarily on Greek, both attic and koine, and Latin, from early antiquity to later church Latin and others. Further, original historical documents can be analyzed and discussed to keep with the topic of the board.
I don't really have an OP typed up for this cause I don't know if anybody is interested in this or not. Hopefully people are and links to resources can be posted along the way.
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Here's one link that I found to be pretty neat.
http://thelatinlibrary.com/
>Latin sources of various orators and historians
Also can't forget about the Gutenberg library.
https://www.gutenberg.org/
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>>2605881
You know, that image should be stale, dated and unfunny by now, and yet I like it.
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>>2607200
Thanks for the bump at least.
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Which wars do you wish were discussed more often?
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1812
It's an historical dead zone in my country.
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Spanish Civil war
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korean war tbqh
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this is real world map
please save + use it from now on
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>>2605676
fuck off aussiecentrist
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>what is nautical north?
Op on suicide watch.
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>>2605676
I suppose it could be true... from a certain point of view
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ITT /his/ memes you hate 2017-04-03 01:53:41 Post No.2605525
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>africa was decolonized
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>>2605525
>If the U.S. didn't nuke Japan, the Soviets would have invaded and it would have been divided a la Korea
>Zoroastrianism was where Judaism and Abrahamic monotheism in general got Monotheistic ideas, despite the fact that we really have no idea what Zoroastrianism was like circa 580 B.C.
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Where are the proofs
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>>2605533
Except that first part is true. just saying it's a meme doesn't make it so.
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Are humans good or evil by nature?
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It's a toss up which human trait has played a larger role in human suffering.
Fear or laziness
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There is no such thing as "evil" in absolute terms because it's all relative. Hitler was "evil" to Jews but Jews are "evil" to Europeans. Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't "evil" if you understand that he had chemical imbalances in his brain which prevented him from being normal. When Muhammad Akbar rapes a woman it's not because he is "evil" but because he is 10th generation inbred arranged marriage autistic, etc.
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Laziness. Good or at least benign neutrality is usually easier overall in the long run.
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itt: people who deserved a better death 2017-04-02 11:28:39 Post No.2605011
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itt: people who deserved a better death
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>>2605011
indeed, he shouldnt have been shot right away. having his face broken in while he was alive then burned alive would have been much better.
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commie detected
Was it salvageable at any point?
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1917 at a stretch
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>>2603255
It was salvaged into Russian federation.
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>>2603255
Post-1917
Pre-30s
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ITT we discuss Southeast Asia between the years of 0 and 1900 AD. What even happened?
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For much of that period, that region had the most advanced civilizations and largest cities in the world. What do you mean "what even happened?"
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Bumping, I've been unusually interested in the regions history lately, but I don't know a single thing about it.
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Jungle Asians being jungle Asians.
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What the FUCK was his problem? How does a genocidal maniac like this even COME to power?
I mean, Hitler hated people who weren't germans, but Pol Pot straight up killed his own people. Literally 25% of the population, fucking gone.
Why?
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>>2602393
It's an Asian thing to hate ourselves and everyone who are distantly related to us.
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>>2602393
>kids who finished highschool and went to college make fun of you
>kill them all in your communist dictatorship
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>>2602406
Killing all the intellectuals isn't even a Pol Pot thing, it seems to be a requirement of every Communist revolution. I can't think of a communist revolution where all the intellectuals weren't killed
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What the fuck was his problem?
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>>2602391
He was French
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>>2602391
He was too jealous of the Yanks and Anglos.
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>>2602391
>What the fuck was his problem?
Absolutely nothing. De Gaulle was pretty based.
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I know this isn't /k/ but /his/torically speaking:
Who did the longsword/great sword better?
Scottish? Spanish? Japanese?
>claymore
>Nodachi
>Espada Bastarda
>Miaodao
>Bidenhänder
Which of them had the most use? Most kills? significant names of warriors who used them? Battles where there was use of them?
Why were the Japanese so good at making really long really light and really skinny swords?
Why were the Spanish and Italians really good at making really decorative, really long, and really heavy swords?
When did long swords/great swords see their most popular day of use? When did they meet their end or decline?
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>so good at making really long really light and really skinny swords?
Nodachi were hardly light and skinny. They were pretty heavy, often only the tip would be sharpened and they were often used to bludgeon.
They were fairly popular with those who could afford them though, they were less prone to breaking than wooden polearms and were long enough to compete with polearms. They were often used both in duels and in battle by some of the most famous swordsmen in Japanese history
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Claiming this thread
How does katana swordsmanship deal with shields? Seems to me like a pig iron discus would absolutely BTFO every two handed japanese sword.
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>>2601662
>how does katana swordsmanship deal with shields?
it doesn't
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Why are Spaniards so butthurt about Gibraltar, when they lost so much more in the treaty of the Pyrenees?
Gibraltar is a rock with a population of barely 30,000, meanwhile Rossellón has a population of 400,000 and engulfs the actual city of Perpiñán, not to mention that it separates the catalonian people, making the spanish state lose legitimacy among catalonians as their legitimate state.
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>>2600462
Losing land to France is long it to another civilized nation.
Losing land to the British is losing it to barbarian savages, the teaniggers.
It hurts much more.
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>Why doesn't Spaim want another 400,000 people.clamoring for independence
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>400,000
well that escalated quickly
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Greatest 100 cities of history 2017-04-01 12:41:13 Post No.2597213
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Greatest 100 cities of history
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Help me make the list.
I'll start:
>Rome
>Constantinople (Istanbul)
>Athens
>Babylon
>Persepolis
>Baghdad
>Beijing
>Heian (Kyoto)
>Yashodharapura (Angkor)
>Ayuthaya
List moar
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Helsinki
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>>2597213
Paris
Moscow
St Petersburg
London
Florence
Venice
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>>2597213
Samarkand.
Edo.
Carthage.
Egyptian Thebes.
Tyre.
New York.