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Who founded Rome? Romulus born to a prostitute, the 7 kings, Arcadians, Trojans? When does myth start to blend with reality and give us verifiable info?
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>>2343234
Villanovans and Etruscans.
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>>2343245
Etruscan language isn't indo european, while Latin is.
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Why did the "Bantu" region of Africa never develop? I mean even other regions of Sub-Saharan Africa like West Africa and East Africa had some notable civilizations that were pretty intriguing and cool but this region never really developed any civilizations of note.
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Not an expert, but in a class I took on agriculture (land management major) that area of Africa, and most parts of Africa, are not well suited to animal domestication. Europe and the Middle East, as well as Egypt, fared much better because of animal husbandry. If you can't really get to that point in your "technology" you're probably going to be stuck. Main reasons for poor domestication were disease/insects/predators.
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My theory is that it has to do with extreme social isolation and the lack of interaction with foreign civilizations, cultures, and people.
Heck most of Europe was backwards and primitive prior to widespread Romanization and many regions of Europe were irrelevant prior to the post-middle ages (i.e. 1500's) like Germany, Scandinavia, Ireland, Russia, Poland, and Ukraine so (in other words) areas that were never apart of the Roman Empire and basically until the Renaissance.
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Shitty environment, diseases rampant like malaria and other jungle shit, no real animals to domesticate that would even be viable (given how shit your living was, you didn't have time to tame and feed an animal as you're starving), etc.
It's easier to colonize and live there once you advance, but good luck advancing and trying to get over that original hurdle while having to start off there.
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Which nation is objectively more intrinsically evil?
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>>2343174
I wonder who could be behind this post?
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>>2343174
France.
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>>2343174
A nation can't be evil
That said, while the eternal anglo did a lot of bad things overseas, german autism catastrophically fucked western civilization in the span of like 50 years
So I'll give it to the germs
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I'm a resident marxist historian. Any misconceptions I can answer. Any other marxists lurking should feel free to answer as well since I may leave soon.
Any questions about Marxism/Marxist History/Marxist economics/Marxist Sociology/Marxist Paleobotany, feel free to ask
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bitches
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>>2342994
Is the hatred of socdem justified for muh rosa?
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>>2342994
>marxist historian.
So essentially you're not a reap historian because you don't even pretend to look at history from an unbiased point of view. Instead you pick and choose facts and events that further the predetermined narrative of muh eternal class struggle.
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Who is the greatest military commander of all time?
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Alexander
He mastered the art of using a really long pointy stick
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>>2342709
Isn´t it obvious?
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Elder God tier:
Alexander
Scipio
Jackson
Patton
Sun Tzu
God tier:
Rochambeau
Cromwell
Rommel
Karolus Martellus
Decent tier:
Napoleon
Julius Caesar
Washington
Nelson
Lee
Xerxes
Bad tier:
Grant
Shit tier:
Hitler
Neckbeards on the internet
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hmm....
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>@stopbeingapleb
lol
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>>2342708
Really makes me :thinking:
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:thinking:
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How should Reconstruction have been handled?
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>>2342308
In a way that got rid of the black population totally. Something like shipping them to Africa.
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>>2342308
Burning down everything that was left.
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>>2342308
Send all Black's to Mexico. If I had I time machine i'd tell the president to do just that.
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Was the French revolution a good thing?
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>>2342129
Was I being born a good thing? There's your answer.
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The Terror was excessive and the ultimate restoration of the Bourbons made it a short-term failure, but the sloughing off of the old European order was necessary. In the long term, universal rights and the rule of law have led to the most peaceful (see image) and prosperous times in human history.
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What are some arguments for Universal Suffrage that don't rely on emotional appeals or ideology?
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>>2341871
Why assume that limited suffrage is the ideal starting point?
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>>2341871
None. No nation has universal suffrage. Can 1 year olds vote? Criminals?
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>>2342025
One would assume that the most qualified to weigh in on an issue ought to be the ones making decisions on that issue.
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Was the crown despotic towards the North American colonies, or just misguided?
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>>2341791
Rather than looking at Britain and what it might have done wrong, I prefer to look at the growing trend of desire for liberty and republicanism in much of Europe due to the Enlightenment. The Thirteen Colonies would not have rebelled if not for the Enlightenment. The same thing happened to the French.
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>>2341791
Neither, Americans were just petulant greedy whiners.
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>>2341791
>oh shit we started a war
>oh shut we won the war
>oh shit we just got rights to tonnes of land
>oh shit we have to pay taxes for that war we started
>oh shit what if we started another war to get even more land
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>wrong about literally everything
>still synonymous with wisdom and learning 2400 years later
How did he do it, brehs?
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>2400 years later and people still talk of "truth"
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not being properly refuted for 2000 years
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There comes a time in the career of every humanities student when he realizes that he is a fraud and a leech on society. When you realize that, and that society might take away the tit from which you suck, you wise up on calling your predecessors fraud. Because it may draw attention to you. "Oh yes, Aristotle was VERY important. Philosophy is very important, even if you are wrong all the time! I-I swear it guys!"
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Find a flaw
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>>2340272
no titties
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>>2340301
looks like a boy
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>Not being philistine master race
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East Asian Architecture - What Went Wrong? 2017-02-09 07:47:51 Post No.2340262
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East Asian Architecture - What Went Wrong?
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>Go to Beijing for holiday after being in South China for business
>Take flight up there from Guangzhou
>Decide to see the Forbidden City, have heard an enormous amount about it, namely how beautiful, timeless and majestic it is
>Get my tickets after getting through Fortress Tiananmen
>Speak and read Chinese to a pretty high level (learned for business purposes) so don't bother with audio guides or anything beyond the written guide
>Approach first structure
>It is big, impressive
>Has one of those equally impressive Chinese names "Hall of Celestial Heavenly Black Bean Purity"
>Walk up steps to said structure
>Try to get a peak inside (lots of people were here because it was morning, when it is at its most busy)
>It's literally a fucking barn.
>A fucking BARN.
>Interior is completely the same as the exterior
>Just wooden walls with a chair in the middle and some randomly placed fixtures along with one of those imperial 万岁万岁万万万岁 caligraphic banners
>Dumbfounded. Decide to move further into the complex, perhaps there's an actual palace with, you know, palatial things somewhere here
>Nope. Just more barns. Barns after barns after barns. Barns that look pretty much exactly the same as the other barns (red color, no difference between interior and exterior, curvy rooves, rinse, repeat).
In all seriousness. I've never been more disappointed than I have when going to East Asian cultural/traditional sites. You've seen one pagoda/curvy hip roof, you've seen them all pretty much.
Shit can't hold a candle to European and some of the more impressive Indian/Mughal architecture. St. Peter's alone blows away anything I've seen in East Asia.
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Architecture that broke feng shui rules was destroyed by some government department from my recollection.
Just more Asian autism basically.
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>>2340292
Yeah, if you go to the Temple of Heaven park in Beijing you'll see some religious structure was destroyed for such a reason.
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I felt the same way after a couple of days in kyoto.
East Asian high culture bores me.
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Which battle was the worst in history? Which one would you least have wanted to fight in?
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"Worst" in what way? Is the second sentence a follow up question, or helping to define the first?
I'd want to avoid any number of sea battles, as drowning is something I have a particular aversion to.
Probably the gas attacks of WW I trench warfare would be high on my list as well.
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WWI was where everyone went from "war is great" to "war is hell"
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WWI would be the obvious answer, but at least those guys were in leather boots and wool coats.
My vote goes to any fight against Mongolians in early Russia. Cold, miserable, no modern medicines or material. If you survive the battle, you die anyway.
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Friendly reminder what day is today.
67 years ago, the best irish-american politician(senator from Wisconsin) gave a speech about amount of communistic filth infiltrating president administration, thus starting the well known McCarthyism movement.
McCarthy did absolutely NOTHING wrong.
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>>2338911
One of the few Americans I deeply admire.
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>>2338911
Lmao he'd have a heart attack if he was to witness what universities have become
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>>2339081
True dat.