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Just read Dynasty by Tom Holland.
Was Claudius a good emperor? Considering his predecessors were Tiberius and Caligula, I'd say he was pretty good. He actually seemed to care about his citizens.
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>>3386715
The personalities of the various emperors made very little difference to lives of 99% of Romans and Roman subjects. Unless you were one of the privileged few who interacted with the emperor on a regular basis, it really didn't matter whether the emperor was Caligula or Claudius or Hadrian or Nero.
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>>3386788
Gotta love these sobering answers.
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>>3386788
You cannot tell me Hadrian did not positively impact citizens through his autistic building projects
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Is rome the most overrated empire in history?
>The whole north-western part of rome was barren wastelands defended by small, primitive barbarians that nobody even bothered to conquer before rome did
>Was only able to conquer the macedonian empire by supporting greek city states against them
>"Conquered" Egypt literally by fucking the corrupt whore Cleopatra who gifted Egypt to the Romans.
>Barely was able to conquer the much smaller carthage despite using the same shady tactics as in Macedonia, "divide and conquer" by supporting the smaller powers in north africa against carthage.
>Extremely corrupt, decadent government now rules over whole mediterranean building almost nothing except for very few aqueaducts and colesseums that are extremely overrated, because most ressources went into decadent luxurious life style of the rich and powerful and their political power games
>all uprising against the corrupt roman rule are small and insignificant and yet rome has troubles shutting them down like in the jewish wars
>As soon as persia reemerged as a major empire almost all ressources need to be relocated to the eastern front because the corrupt, low-morale roman troops keep getting btfo by numerically inferior persians
>still more roman troops at the western front, than barbarians, but they keep getting btfo, and eventually the borders fall, barbarians migrate in and do as they please
>as soon as a major opponent arose (persian sassanide) rome stops existing within 2 centuries
So /his/, why exactly is this giant, uber-corrupt piece of turd so admired?
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You could make the same arguments about literally any empire.
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how bout you shut the fuck up
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>>3386153
No.
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Tell me about Burma/Myanmar, /his/.
What's the history of this country?
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>>3385869
bump
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>>3385869
not related to ww2, hitler, jews or le funy maymays
dont expect an answer.
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Better ask this on /r/askhistorians.
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What if Poland-Lithuania annexed Muscovy?
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Nipponese siberia
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>>3385520
Slavs wouldn't be seen as poor, subhuman, cultureless drunkfucks saying "blyat cyka blyat".
They also wouldn't starve and die en masse in zerg rushes.
As for rest of Europe, Prussia would never unite Germany.
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>>3385520
We wouldn't have had to share with Russia.
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Did German civilians deserve to be kicked out from rest of the Europe after WWII?
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>>3385465
No they deserved to be annihilated
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The Eternal Kraut deserves genocide, even though the Holocaust didn't happen.
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>>3385471
/thread
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Has there ever been a political ideology that supports human extinction as the #1 goal? 2017-09-15 02:50:26 Post No.3384546
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Has there ever been a political ideology that supports human extinction as the #1 goal?
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Yes, it's called communism.
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>>3384546
Anarcho primitivism
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>>3384567
That isn't the goal of communism, just a present danger of it
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Discuss and post anything related to tibetan history, culture, language, etc here
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>>3384417
Is the Yeti reel
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>>3384425
There was a scalp of a Yeti in some monastery but it turned out to be Yak fur after a DNA analysis
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Tibetan Book of the Dead is fascinating to me
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Are Hungarians really descendants Of Attila?
If so, does that make Attila Uralic?
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>>3383680
they're not. Atilla was connected- at least we think (it's shaky)- to the Xiognu, a proto-Turkic (we think) people from what is now China/Mongolia.
Hungarians are descended (culturally, very few genetically) to the Magyars, an Ugric-speaking people from much farther west. The Magyars moved in long after the Huns. The name for Hungary even comes from a Greek corruption of "Ugri" I think, possibly in the same way as "Bulgar", though I'm not 100% sure about that.
tl;dr they're closer to Finns.
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>>3383680
>HUNgary
What do you think
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>>3383680
>Are Hungarians really descendants Of Attila?
They're not even hte descendants of old Hungarians, let alone Attila.
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>weebs bitch about US embargoing them
>when they were already making plans to invade SEA
hey morons, the embargo wasn't about you stopping your conquests since we knew you were never going to backdown, it was about weaking you as much as possible before the war
the reason why you caught the US off guard in Pearl because you were so scummy that you were still engaging in diplomatic talks when planning your attack like the scum you are
literally bigger spineless scum than Hitler
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>>3390932
As southeast Asian I support Japan on this
Dead white colonialist is good thing
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>>3390932
more like
>weebs bitch about US embargoing them
>even after US gave them a warning to retreat their troops from Chinese territory
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>>3390945
>Fuck whitey! Japan is best
>WTF Japan is also a colonialist!
t. Southeast Asians.
Only Philippines and Vietnam seemed to be redpilled vs. Japan and its talk of "Co-Prosperity."
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Why is that death and murders in Slavic countries tend to be more brutal and depraved?
This can't be a unique thing to them.
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That sounds like a really grave assertion, got any stats to back it up?
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>>3390893
I have an anecdote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo
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>>3390902
Anecdotes in plural isn't data.
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Historical Smash or Pass 2017-09-16 12:17:30 Post No.3390731
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Anyone can post a picture of a historical celebrity and you will have to decide if you would smash or pass if that person showed clear signs of wanting to smash you. You will have to take social, economical, legal and historical aspects into account when deciding. For example you would be beheaded if you decided to smash Anne Boleyn and ended up getting caught.
You are visually identical to your current self and you are as rich and powerful as you currently are (relative to the average). The historical figure has the same marital status and age as the picture depicts.
I will start with a couple of famous women.
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Why didn't the West agree to the Stalin Note? 2017-09-16 11:00:36 Post No.3390575
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Why didn't the West agree to the Stalin Note?
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>The Stalin Note, also known as the March Note, was a document delivered to the representatives of the Western allied powers (the United Kingdom, France, and the United States) from the Soviet Occupation in Germany on March 10, 1952. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin put forth a proposal for a reunification and neutralization of Germany, with no conditions on economic policies and with guarantees for "the rights of man and basic freedoms, including freedom of speech, press, religious persuasion, political conviction, and assembly" and free activity of democratic parties and organizations.
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>>3390575
>relax guy, take a load off, let the Germans "decide" their "own" economic policies and have "fair" elections. Come on buddy, just look at Eastern "Germany" and how they "freely" elected their leaders
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
>don't worry, just let them have free elections
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>>3390575
>guarantees for "the rights of man and basic freedoms, including freedom of speech, press, religious persuasion, political conviction, and assembly" and free activity of democratic parties and organizations
sure
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How would WW1 have played out had the US not entered militarily? 2017-09-16 08:20:38 Post No.3390207
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How would WW1 have played out had the US not entered militarily?
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>>3390207
The ally win the war in 1919 after massive famine in germany.
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>>3390240
This. The blockade prevented any serious German offensives.
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>>3390207
Germany would have been erased. No new world order. No WW2. etc...
Fucking burgers ruined the world.
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Why is it that, despite being a weaker weapon than the speak, the sword has become the symbol of war and combat in ancient and medieval history?
The fact that it is more portable and more accepted in society does not make it a better symbol for war than the spear. These are civilian-life advantages. But if you read any of the old Greeks' speeches (and I would assume the same theme persists throughout medieval europe) the sword is always used synonymously with war or combat.
Is the spear not a better fit for it? Unlike the sword, it does not fit civilian life. It is a tool made only for the battlefield, and the battlefield is its only home.
So why is this not the case?
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>>3390152
swords simply look cooler
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>>3390152
Because the spear was a civilian tool that got reused as a weapon of war, like most other melee weapons. Only the sword was made for killing other humans first, it's a tool with the single purpose of war.
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>>3390152
1) Swords are designed for the sole purpose of showing off, and killing other humans. A spear is also used for hunting, thus the sword might seem more "warlike"
2) What do you mean by "weaker"?
3) Spears have always been a symbol of war anyways. e.g. the vikings talked about "dying by the spear" as much as "dying by the sword."
4) You also talk about how swords are more for civilian life. Well, a rapier is that for sure, but a greatsword isn't something you just carry around in the street
How did people from west berlin travel to west germany?
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my friends grandmother was a West German in West Berlin and when travelling through East Germany her passport was pickpocketed and they didn't believe she was West German so she was stuck there until Shaka, when the walls fell, having to marry a dude so she wouldn't be destitute, thus birthing my friend's mom
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>>3389966
>was stuck there until Shaka, when the walls fell
lol
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>>3389966
Bullshit story it would have been easy to prove she is from West Berlin, call the embassy.
Her relatives didn't ask anyone and wondered why she didn't come back ?
The DDR would have set her free the relation damage with the west would be intense if they just jailed west berliners just because they lost their passport.
God what a bullshit story.