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Can you name one multicultural society that flourished prior to 1900?

From what I can see, "diversity" is actually bad and creates civil unrest, or at the very least turmoil and apathy. Meanwhile the 5th columnists excite and promote take over of government and revolts.

>bonus points: prove eskimoes killed vikings.

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During the days of the Roman Empire, were the Romans aware that they became a monarchy with Kings and Nobles n shiet, and not a classical republic no longer?

Looking at the Roman Empire, the senate was still around, and the title of its ruler is really that of a supreme military commander whose imperium extends to all of the territories held by Rome.

I'm just wondering whether or not the Romans didn't see any changes to their society at all during the switch to Empire. Like how could a Republican state convince itself to have a Monarch even?

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http://arzamas.academy/materials/1269

>Political life was exceedingly tumultuous in 1917. Some parties and groups wanted to give all the land to the peasants and all the factories to the workers; others thirsted to fight in the war to a final victory; still others dreamed of demolishing the government to its very foundations. In order to find out which of these groups you might have been a part of, you can use the Political Compass of the Revolution. Its horizontal axis refers to economic preferences, from the extreme left (socialists) to the extreme right (liberals). The vertical axis maps out data about political inclinations, from democratic to authoritarian. We have laid out the ten basic political forces in the Revolution along these axes (see below). In order to find out where you would have fallen, you need to take our quiz and evaluate 27 assertions about the most pressing problems in September 1917, after the Kornilov Affair had failed, but before the October Revolution took place. You should not use the Compass to define your modern preferences. The situations of the different parties is tightly connected to September 1917: the position of many – in particular the Bolsheviks – later shifted on certain issues, even so far as to land on the directly opposite pole. Therefore, the proximity of any party or group to another on the Compass does not necessarily mean that they were allies in the political struggle: a group’s position on the graph is merely the sum of their ideological positions.

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Do you think the Tower of Pisa and the Sphinx will collapse in our lifetime?

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Why do so many Turks deny the Armenian Genocide?

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Philosophy was always here to help us find The Truth but now we live in the post-truth world and our search is basically over. Is there any reason to even bother with philosophy anymore?

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What was the comfiest historical place and time to live?

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Do you guys collect any ancient coins or artifacts?

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>the south began the war to preserve the institution of slavery
>the north fought the war to preserve the union

Is this something we can all agree on?

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what does /his/ think of the ancient Germanic people?

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I was told that the Inca empire was a communist utopia, but then I read this.

>In the ancient empire of the Incas, sex was a heavily regulated industry. The sun-king Atahualpa kept fifteen hundred women in each of many “houses of virgins” throughout his kingdom. They were selected for their beauty and were rarely chosen after the age of eight—to ensure their virginity. But they did not all remain virgins for long: They were the emperor’s concubines. Beneath him, each rank of society afforded a harem of a particular legal size. Great lords had harems of more than seven hundred women. “Principal persons” were allowed fifty women; leaders of vassal nations, thirty; heads of provinces of 100,000 people, twenty; leaders of 1,000 people, fifteen; administrators of 500 people, twelve; governors of 100 people, eight; petty chiefs over 50 men, seven; chiefs of 10 men, five; chiefs of 5 men, three. That left precious few for the average male Indian whose enforced near-celibacy must have driven him to desperate acts, a fact attested to by the severity of the penalties that followed any cuckolding of his seniors. If a man violated one of Atahualpa’s women, he, his wife, his children, his relatives, his servants, his fellow villagers, and all his lamas would be put to death, the village would be destroyed, and the site strewn with stones.

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How developed could the Americas and Africa have been if they had contact with each other?

>Africa
Richest kingdoms
Full-fledged metallurgy
Useful animals

>Americas
Written language
Mathematics
Efficient and productive crops

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Post your favorites anti-heroes

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what are some /his/ recommend books for
a fairly new /his/torian?
it can be about the Babylonians all the way to the
Third Reich.

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Underrated roman emperors
>gallienus
>dominitian