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Did Obama just quote a Serbian commienazi? :^)

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Trouble is, "good" is a pretty meaningless term. Pericles, I guess?

>>2544930
Inherent in any answer to that question should be the question of, "What actually happened to the Roman Empire?"
Cleanse your mind of any /pol/-tier fallacies and the urge of modernity to compare everything to itself in order to justify its own supreme greatness.

Did the world technologically collapse? No. Technology continued to develop after the Roman Empire.

Did the world economically collapse? Sort of, but not really. The Roman Empire would never see the same sort of economic power as it had in its first century (after the Republic), and the Middle Ages saw a reversal of economic trends as it went on, although the economic integration of Europe was more decentralized.

Did the Empire racially collapse? Essentially, yes. The Roman Republic and Empire had slowly pushed north, pressing peoples constantly at war with each other against their enemies. This caused push-back, which led to migrations that were happening even in Julius Caesar's day.
The push-back around the time traditionally associated with the collapse of the Empire was massive, though, and the barbarians got farther than ever before. How this is relevant is because you had peoples who's culture was not as refined as the Romans living in places previously occupied by the refined people. They would adopt their religion and some of their culture, but retaining key elements of their own. This is what changed the Empire into something that we don't call the Roman Empire, but it happened gradually.

Overall, I would say that the idea of the Dark Ages is a meme not founded in any hard fact. There was just the combination of a move toward a less centralized political and economic structure and the movement of people not associated with refined lifestyles into the areas previously associated with those lifestyles. Technology continued to progress. Learning continued to progress among those that learned. Higher degrees of urbanization saw higher degrees of disease, as they always do.

>>2544930
Fortunately the worlds knowledge can now be stored on more than a few sheets of papyrus so it will not be lost in some collapse

>>2544950
This true to a degree but it wrong to think that nothing was lost. The Roman Empire was able to build and maintain many construction projects not found again in Europe till modern times. Also the Roman economy made it to around the end of the 4th century. One more thing the economic collapse was catastrophic for the marginal areas of Rome such as northern France and England.

Shoot him with a crossbow

Hit that cunt on the head with something hard enough and you don't need to break the armor. Or alternatively, punch through it with a spike.

People used shit like maces and warhammers for a reason. You can brain somebody in full plate a lot easier than you can stab them.

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>>2544652
Are spears good at puncturing plate?

I'd assume they would be, especially if you put a great deal of your weight behind it.

So, the only real options are to bash him with a blunt weapon, punch through it with a spike or polearm/spear of some kind?

Also, was there any validity to what I heard about knight's getting pinned and finished off?

I always assumed a knight would be beyond fucked if a gaggle of like three or five guys pinned him down, tore off his visor and went to town on his face with daggers and sharpened sticks.

So you want a link to an ancient aliens tier drivel. Ok

Www.yourmotherisawhore.com

>>2544571
>I remember reading on here
>here
Yeah that sounds exactly like something /his/ would propose.

Breakdown of the Bicameral mind something something

>>2544514
There are also people on this board who believe OP should kill himself in 2017

>>2544519
I'm certainly one of them.

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I wonder what would've happened to him if he accepted Hanna Reitsch's offer to take him out of Berlin in a Fi-156 taking off from an improvised airstrip near Brandenburg gate. The Soviets would probably shoot him down and he'd crash and die

>>2544435
t. nihilist

The closest we ever came to being great creatures was Art.

Showing each other complex experiences from our perspectives so they could be evaluated and considered.

This later spawned science as we dismantled the ideas that we had and sought final proof by experiment.
This led to the dismantling of religion, and of society as a whole as all knowledge was kept and repeated, and tested until there was no smaller or larger thing that we could examine.

>>2544435
Fine by me.

Second Klan are cringeworthy larpers, all that Mortal Kombat shit, just plain embarrassing.

>>2544295
The eternal y*nkee infiltrated and corrupted them into the joke honeypot organisation you see today

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>>2544393

No, he's talking about antinatalism

>>2544137
No you dolt, hes talking about fishing

Honestly the book is only about a personal struggle, it is in no way a metaphor or parallel to any political, social, or economic bullshit, unless you want to make it so

>>2544137
First time hearing this, please go on

>>2544033
I have a legal right to put my dick in your mom since she consent.

>>2544033
I will force you to act like my rights are real. Then they'll be, as far as I will be practically concerned.

>>2544053
>I will force you to act like my rights are real.
You mean the state will? You couldn't do jack on your own.

The war of independence.

>>2543889
A lot of religious instability in europe from 1500 to 1700. The Dutch 80 years' war and European 30 years' war comes to mind.

which part of the world

>>2543888

Did he die checking his watch?

>>2543918
Died during corssfit. It's dangerous but keeps you healthy if you know what you're doing.

>>2543918
He was shot in the back with an arrow and landed in an awkward position.

Two distinct conflicts that eventually conflated to some extent. Still, the Eighty Years' War went through several phases and even a relatively long truce, it not like it was a single long campaign.

>>2543708

The 80 Years' War lasted roughly 50 years longer

>>2543752
>>2543768
Which war had an arguably larger impact on history do you guys think?

>>2543632
The're just niggers with a thyroid problem.

>>2543632
teddy would've strangled a bigfoot with his bare hands had he really met one!

>>2543632
They're just rednecks with a Hypertrichosis problem.

Janissaries.

By the time they managed to break the Janissary stranglehold on the military life of the Empire, it was far too late.

>>2543606
>Janissaries
so they just refused to let go of tradition? Kind of like the Russians refusing to modernize their military before WWI?

>>2543565
>They got into the alliance game too late. They had a massive fucking Empire so they could always produce massive armies. Janissaries might have been an old prestigious educated slave based institution at one point, but the malikane system in the seventeenth and eighteenth century allowed turk peasants to join the army, made the sepahis obsolete and generally allowed the sultan to command a small army of warlords that commanded pretty big armies.

That all sounds good if you haven't conquered everyone you could have made an alliance with and all of a sudden England, France, Russia, the Safavids and the Habsburgs are starting to team up against you and rile up a bunch of crazy orthodox balkans and greeks against you. It's one thing having one large army fight another large army, it's a totally different story fighting 3 powerful armies on like 70 fronts with your one big army.

>>2543508
No because 'English' is not a race. It is a combination of French and German.

The meme image associated with this retarded concept always seems to think that someone who's been born and raised in england but has german great grandparents is somehow not english. It's silly.

>>2543508
nope, it's always been a foreigner or some sort of europeen mongrel breed. english are to busy trying to flee their own island to actually rule it. why do you think they fought so many wars abroad?

>>2543543

The perfect mix, German Efficiency and French Sophistication. God-tier genetic mix.