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Can we agree that the Roman Empire was a mistake? They should've stayed as a Republic.
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Before Augustus: 100 years of civil wars and disasters.
After Augustus: 200 years of peace and prosperity.
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>>2566639
>Augustus blunder at Teutoburg
>Caligula
>Nero
>Domitian
>Commodus
>literally everyone besides Septimius during the Severan dynasty
>crisis of the third century
>peace and prosperity
Ayy lmao
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hi /his/
im leading a role play campaign based on bronze age M.E and i trying to ind good approximation of prices.
i found this
http://ancientcoinsforeducation.org/content/view/79/98/
which is a standard for maximum prices in rome, 301AD.
its good enough for my purpose, but it lack prices for livestock, tools and weapons, which i direly need.
i could really use some help here.
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>>2566279
No idea m8y
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>>2566279
The Edict of Maximum Prices is, if you want any semblance of realism, not a very good document for you to use. For a start, it is highly unlikely that the prices given were ever actually stuck to - the edict ceased to be propagated shortly after its initial issue, and it is doubtful that there was even an attempt to enforce its use in the western empire. So not only is it too far in the future for your purposes, but it is unlikely to be an accurate representation of marketplace conditions in 301 AD - it is also important to remember that it was issued in an attempt to counteract hyperinflation and a monetary crisis, so it hardly represents 'typical' conditions.
I realise that what I am about to say is unhelpful - because I cannot give you specific examples/links to translations - BUT, for a bronze-age M.E. setting, I would take a look at the Minoan Linear B tablets or cuneiform clay documents from the Levant. I know for certain that we have examples giving some prices (in kind), but I cannot remember any examples for certain. But if you have a dig about, I am sure you will find something appropriate - it is NOT the work to go to, but I seem to remember Niall Ferguson citing a cuneiform 'bill of sale' in his Ascent of Money.
Good luck.
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>>2566323
>Minian Linear B
>Minoan
>Linear B
How embarassing...
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Southern Europeans originated mostly from these guys, I'm surprised they are not talked about much here
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>>2566258
Some more of their art, it looks Asian to me
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>>2566269
it looks Paleolithic to me
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Favourite British Monarch?
Pic related. Tragically misunderstood by history
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>>2566210
George V was pretty cool.
Also I had a crush on Anne of Great Britain when I was a kid in history class.
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Henry VIII. No doubt.
Well read, man of the people, didn't take shit from no one. Also composed some good music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YcDFOu6qWw
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>>2566210
>tfw you bumble around for years, partying and pretending to be King and then the fuckers actually invite you back to become King and you bumble around as king and manage to do alright so everybody thinks you're a champion of the people
truly /ourguy/
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What are religious systems where super-god is the legit answer to this question?
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>If there is no God then who created the universe?
hurr big bang durr
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>>2566156
Probably another god.
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>>2566375
> another god
Isn't it basically Gnosticism?
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What is /his/'s opinion on the Indonesian Mass Killings? Have you seen the movie?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%931966#Killings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancasila_Youth
>pic related
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>>2566137
The Whitman government handed over their intelligence on members of the East Timorese Communist Party, knowing full well they were going to be executed without trial. Australians like to pretend that we're an innocent nation, but the way we've treated E. Timor for the last 40 years is reprehensible.
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>>2566137
There were mass killings, but there was no genocide and Oppenheimer is an agitprop imperialist stooge who makes his living off duping braindead cinema 'taste makers' into thinking he is a serious filmmaker. Not only does he lie about history and interfere in other nation's politics due to his belief in himself as the white saviour to unenlightened brown people, but his 'artistry' is just a glib facsimile of Iranian cinema, which is infinitely more interesting.
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Where did the Proto Indo Europeans come from?
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We now for certain that they spread from the Northern part of the Black Sea (modern day Ukraine), but how did they get THERE in the first place??
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>>2566109
They developed there from hunter gatherer cultures that adopted pastoralism.
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One more recent theory states they may have originated in Anatolia.
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>>2566368
Nah, Anatolian hypothesis is dead and it never made much sense anyway.
Neolithic is just too long ago to correlate with linguistics and genetics has utterly debunked it.
Neolithic males in Europe were subject to nothing less than a holocaust by Indo-Europeans from the steppe.
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Are atheists inherently violent and irrational due to a lack of religious morality?
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>>2565960
what makes religious morality any less violent than other morality? Morality itself is completely subjective one moral stand point being more violent than another is just a matter of perspective.
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>>2565967
This
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>>2565960
Yes and what of it?
Good law and order are nothing more than alternate manifestations of violence.
You go full master morality when talking about (justifiably) bashing in the heads of Muslim invaders. To go slave morality when complaining about atheist statism is intellectual inconsistency.
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Why did the Abbasids never manage to conquer Constantine but some random Turkic marauders did?
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700 years of technological development and Byzantine decay.
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Have you seen the bombards?
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>>2565917
*Barmaks.
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>That's bullshit. Things are either true or false.
How do you respond?
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"I don't know"
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>>2565864
I respond "only in a certain context"
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*ignite lightsaber*
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand is so sad when you think about it. He had 3 kids and his last words were begging his wife not to die. According to Count von Harrach it went like this:
>As the car quickly reversed, a thin stream of blood spurted from His Highness's mouth onto my right cheek
>As I was pulling out my handkerchief to wipe the blood away from his mouth, the Duchess cried out to him, "For God's sake! What has happened to you?"
>At that she slid off the seat and lay on the floor of the car, with her face between his knees.
>I had no idea that she too was hit and thought she had simply fainted with fright.
>Then I heard His Imperial Highness say, "Sophie, Sophie, don't die. Stay alive for the children!"
>At that, I seized the Archduke by the collar of his uniform, to stop his head dropping forward and asked him if he was in great pain.
>He answered me quite distinctly, "It is nothing!"
>His face began to twist somewhat but he went on repeating, six or seven times, ever more faintly as he gradually lost consciousness, "It's nothing!"
>Then came a brief pause followed by a convulsive rattle in his throat, caused by a loss of blood.This ceased on arrival at the governor's residence.
>The two unconscious bodies were carried into the building where their death was soon established
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Gavrilo did NOTHING wrong
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Serves him right, he trusted the Slavs.
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Only about 15% percent of the current Arab population of Israel descends from families who lived there before 1948. What say you?
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>>2565770
That's absolute bullshit
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Proofs, tovarisch?
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[citation needed]
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ITT We discuss elite military unit/forces throughout history
Was there ever a more based Calvary unit than the Winged Hussar?
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Yeah, every other cavalry unit.
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>Winged "Hussars"
>actually heavy lancers
What did Poland mean by this?
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>>2565688
Overrated meme troops.
Now Napoleon's Vieille Garde were some badass motherfuckers.
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Is he one of the most underrated mass murderers in modern history?
>destroyed a dam flooding the entire yellow river to halt the flow of the Japanese army
>drowned over 800,000 peasants in the process by his own estimations, but the actual figure was far higher
>the nationalists "conscripted" soldiers by having warlords going out and forcibly capturing villagers, tying them together in a bundle with ropes, and forcing them to trek hundreds of miles to a training camp. Usually only 50% would survive the journey.
The sino-Japanese war was such a clusterfuck, it's a shame it gets overlooked in favour of the rest of the pacific theatre and the Chinese-civil war
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>>2565618
Do they have no empathy for their fellow countrymen?
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>>2565618
>>drowned over 800,000 peasants
That's just everyday life in China.
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>>2565623
>W-War is glamorous
>H-Heroes don't break a few eggs
Go cry to the fucking Soviet Union
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>you will NEVER witness a miniature sea battle in a flooded Colosseum
why fucking live.
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>>2565605
How long did they even do naumachias for? Surely it was a mess to organise and extremely costly.
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>>2565711
This is Rome we're talking about
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>>2565711
>Surely it was a mess to organise and extremely costly.
The more advanced a civilization the more advanced their bread and circuses must be