How come Sweden never managed to seize Norway until 1815?
Was it the superiority of Norwegian warrior?
>>3324505
The swedes were busy killing Russians and the Finnish.
>>3324505
fuck off fjordnigger
>>3324505
Norway was an irrelevant, poor and useless shithole for majority of its history.
The land had no significance.
1969: First ATM opens for business
>On this day in 1969, America’s first automatic teller machine (ATM) makes its public debut, dispensing cash to customers at Chemical Bank in Rockville Center, New York. ATMs went on to revolutionize the banking industry, eliminating the need to visit a bank to conduct basic financial transactions. By the 1980s, these money machines had become widely popular and handled many of the functions previously performed by human tellers, such as check deposits and money transfers between accounts. Today, ATMs are as indispensable to most people as cell phones and e-mail.
1789: Congress founds U.S. Treasury
1666: Great Fire of London begins
1945: Japan surrenders
Good post, enjoy your free bump.
Man it is amazing how much we take the ATM for granted these days.
1192 – The Treaty of Jaffa is signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Third Crusade.
>ancient/medieval history
>ppl have fun
>pre/modern history
>ppl turn autistic over politics
Why do ppl do this?
>he hasn't yet seen romaboos throw their autistic fits
Republican forms of government or in broader terms any government where the populace has some sort of say in statutory decisions will nurture public discord
Compare high medieval Europe to the Roman republic or the late Empire.
>>3324481
>ppl have fun
I wasn't aware that being at the mercy of your leige lord, bandits, plague, and otherwise complete lack of power was fun
>one elephant is worth 50 carthaginian soldiers
>if elephants don't solve your problem you're not using enough of them
>I love mountaineering
truly inspirational quotes I cri everytim
great thread op
How would history be different if the July plot had been successful and hitler was killed? How would the war have changed? what would have happened?
>>3324422
Who knows?
>>3324422
Most likely a mini-civil war ensues between the putschists, the SS and other various elements, which only furthers chaos and brings Allies closer to victory.
If the Stauffenberg clique prevails they probably ask for a separate peace with the Western Allies (with USSR it was next to impossible). They're basicaly a Nazi-lite group and Allies refuse. The Germans give up the fight earlier because of infighting and because no one knows what to do next. Germany is still taken and occupied by Allies, though the measures are probably not as harsh.
>>3324428
Nice contribution, faggot.
How has the American media's relationship with the far left changed since the McCarthy era?
American media is on the side of corporations that own them. This hasnt hanged in decades.
>>3324400
What's happening in this pic?
Anyone get a chance to read? Really interested in Spinoza. Any of you recommend another book about him?
Please help
Capitalism without economic growth is a zero sum game. In order to grow, the economy needs more energy and natural resources or being more efficient in its production processes.
Our planet is finite and our capacity to increase efficiency is limited by thermodynamics.
Therefore, unless we develop cold fusion and colonize the space, capitalism is doomed to be destroyed due to revolts against an increasing accumulation of wealth in the hands of less people.
>>3324373
Yeah, no shit. But under which ideology?
>>3324373
>is a zero sum game
False.
>the economy needs more energy and natural resources
False
>more efficient in its production processes
One of many ways to increase wealth
>planet is finite
Yes, although we're thousands and thousands of years away from running out of anything.
>capitalism is doomed to be destroyed because of wealth disparity
False. Wealth disparity is the rule, not the exception throughout history.
Capitalism is by far the best we've got. Nothing will replace it nor should anything replace it.
>>3324373
There is an pretty much infinite resources on our planet, light from the sun.
How do thermodynamics limit our ability to increase productivity?
Lastly, this increasing accumulation of wealth in the hands of less people is not certain to happen at all.
Did the french invade Russia successfully?
Should have committed the Guard at Borodino.
>>3324288
No they did not.
They so many men, half their allies and Russia was not incorporated into the continental system. Furthermore the defeats in Russia highered the morale for Napoleon's enemies and slowly ate away at his men. There was no success in that campaign at all. What >>3324297 said could have forced the fragmented Russian army to fight on for some more but i don't think it would have made a long enough impression on the long run.
>>3324333
They lost*
also muh trips
Why did the Vikings bleach their hair?
>>3324324
>That's not bleach, it's dandruff.
>>3324324
camouflage, obvs
>being this retarded
>>3324754
no, they were metrosexuals that liked blonde hair.
hence wanted to make their hair bright, even though majority of them were danes and norwegians with dark hair.
now fatfuck americans are jerking off to "blonde nordic aryan" memes because of it.
How were arabs able to create such a huge empire and the second largest religion in the world?
They were originally nomads in a unhospitable desert, and i'm assuming they didn't have a huge population either
>>3324286
The Quran is notably similar to the Torah, so that helped convert the jewish arabs. That and the heavy taxes they inflicted on non-muslims. And war.
I'm not using this to bash on islam but historically and even today, they are definitely not a religion of peace, otherwise it wouldnt exist.
>>3324286
Arabs used the desert like the british use the sea. They can freely travel the desert, using towns like Damascus or Kufa that border the desert like port cities, using camel trains to conduct trade across the desert.
Like how the British maintained an empire of the seas, the Arabs maintained an empire of the desert. The used towns on the border of the desert as their main garrisons and strongholds to exert influence over the region.
When they attack, they attack from the desert, which is difficult to defend against because most people don't expect an attack from the desert. Also they had very powerful cavalry.
In terms of their administration, the Ummayads were a family of expert merchants. They already had a long history as merchants in mecca for hundreds of years, trading substances such as myrrh and jewels with the romans.
The Arabs ruled by pretty much preserving the same beauracracy they had, they had very good relations with the local christians.
Mu'awiya's wife was a christian and his administration was basically full of Christians of Damascus.
Its true the Arabs were mostly desert nomad tribes, but the ruling families of the Caliphates were merchant families and craftsmen. The Arab empires relied heavily on trade.
In fact the reason Muhammad created the Hajj pilgrimage was that so Mecca, a city that benefited heavily from trade with Romans, would always remain a wealthy trading city as every muslim would have to make pilgrimage to it, and it would always make money off them and remain wealthy in trade.
>>3324286
They weren't nomads in the desert. Arabia has a desert in the middle, but that's not where the population resides.
What would Hitler's legacy be if instead of trying to kill all jews he finished his original plan and simply deported them all?
>>3324243
A larger Israel.
>>3324243
He'd still go down as a genocidal madman responsible for the most costly and unnecessary conflict in modern history.
>>3324243
nazism is parasitic in it's nature. he couldn't deport shit, otherwise he wouldn't have all the slave-labour necessary to keep the war going.
I'm looking for documentaries about ancient Japanese history, as far back as possible to around the Asuka or Heian period.
So far, all the ones I've found online only focus on history after the Europeans landed, always fucking going on and on about how it was SOOOOOOOOO different and how Japanese history fucking started when they landed.
Please help.
>>3324235
Just look at the extra history episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDsdkoln59A
>>3324249
BEFORE the warring states. I fucking said Heian or Asuka. Classical Japanese history.
>>3324235
Learn Japanese and watch japanese documentaries on it. Literally only way. Then be a bro and translate them for us.
tfw you realise that the reason that islam is a violent warlike religion bent on conquest is because the Prophet Muhammad was actually a proto-ba'athist Arab nationalist who wanted to unify the arabs and turn them into a superpower; but because Arabs are hardheaded and stubborn about their tribalism, they didn't listen to his message of unity in the beginning so the only way he could unite them and turn them into an empire was by doing it through force and military conqeusts. Same way Salahuddin managed to unite them by force and conquests before expelling the crusaders and liberating Jerusalem.
Islam is basically arab superiority; The Religion
Was communism ever something more than a Russian conspiracy, orchestrated by Moscow in order to deceive useful idiots in the West?
Was is just Russian national self-interest?