Do the "crimes" of the natives against each other justify the "crimes" of the colonizators against them?
Studying history is not about deciding who the bad guys were.
No, but it doesn't justify the assumed moral superiority and nobility of character of the natives in comparison to that of colonizers.
>>2320713
This
Was pan-Arabism ever feasible?
No. Ideologies of that sort only causes war.
See: Pan-Slavism.
Post rare Nassers
>>2320480
Of course. Nasser's biggest mistake was that he didn't intervene militarily in 1961 to try to stop the coup in Syria. Arab unity will never come through peaceful democratic means alone, because there will always be corrupt pawns and useful allies that will by used by the west to torpedo attempts at unity.
Muhammad only united the Arabs by force, so did Salahuddin. Arab unity needs a strong leader for regional countries to rally around so he can crush any opposition to unity.
What stopped Roman from expansion further into the Eastern Europe?
>>2320246
Full of useless open Steppe and slavic subhumans.
>>2320246
They already had plenty of clay. They only conquered Dacia because it had lots of gold
>>2320246
Logistics
Are you descended from nobility?
>>2320059
Yes. You, anon?
>>2320059
i'm descended from pure and probably a bit inbred peasants
probably not, but my dad was born into a wealthy military family
he had a falling out with them before I was born and we grew up middle class but he raised us like we were higher class.
Which was better- Mali or Songhai?
>>2319834
800 years of history boiled into one chapter in every history text book
ghana
>>2319837
>We should be interested in thing because we just should.
What are /his/'s thoughts about this assessment? I find this outlandish. Any women here?
Man here, I can confirm it makes no sense at all. Stop taking philosophy from comic books.
>>2319266
>it was the strongest hunter who we trusted to lead society
Most tribal societies are ruled by committee, only one of whom was the strongest hunter. The other members usually include the elder, the witchdoctor, the midwife (if they aren't also the witchdoctor), and the proto-artisan.
>>2319266
do progressives really find this take on the Flintstones entertaining? I have a hard time believing anyone could be that joyless and politically motivated
I think we can all agree that decolonization of Africa had to happen, but the way it was carried out was disastrous. Nations pulling out of areas they had dominated for a century over night was not the way to go, the question is, how could the decolonization been handled better?
A slower transition of power
But thats actually pretty hard to do especially when race and class is involved.
>>2319001
Rhodesia turned out to be he biggest shithole in Africa. Why the fuck would you follow that model?
Anti-Recommendation Thread
Books that everyone should avoid for their bunk history, poor historiography, and straight up lying.
>>2318942
"Guns Germs and Steel" is /pol/ propaganda.
"Also Chariots of the Gods" is /x/ and "They came before Columbus" is Afrocentric propaganda.
>>2318959
>"Guns Germs and Steel" is /pol/ propaganda.
Don't you mean anti-/pol/ propaganda?
The whole thesis of the book is "White people are no better than black people, in fact, if black people had the environmental advantages white people did, the world would be a better place."
>>2318959
How is guns germs and steel /pol/?
I mean, we know that some of the things he says are false, but his whole point is to say that civilizations got where they were not on a basis of race but of the (somewhat random) adoption of practices, techs, etc.
Bonus points for rare ones
>a high level of discourse is expected
>>2318816
is this a ancient finish empire thread?
Who you siding with?
Both
Hobbbes because his philosophy didn't result in a reign of terror
Hobbes was right.
where people have no understanding of what Italian Fascism entailed and just say it as a "catch all" term for everything
sort of how people in the 50s were saying "Communists, Communists" without understanding what Marxism truly is
>>2318675
What rock have you been living under? Fascism lost all real meaning decades ago. It's been a catch all insult for years.
Mussolini admitted himself that fascism had no real definition, so the world rolled with it
Mussolini's fascism was god tier but
>>2318680
Is correct, it lost meaning and will never have it back. Something similar will pop up under a different name, coming from this renewed uprising of nationalism in the west
Why are there so few books on Chinese history, and why are almost all of them written by Westerners?
Is this just a case of the Chinese hating their own country and trying to remain willfully ignorant of its history, or what? It just seems inexplicable that a country with thousands of years of history should be limited to either encyclopedic series that span tens of volumes or single novels that cram even an event as complex as the Three Kingdoms era into twenty pages. And in most cases it's something the author treats as a curiosity rather than an area of expertise, with them not even having been to China and being unable to read the sources in the original Chinese.
Like, what gives? Where are all the biographies about Guan Yu and other famous Chinese figures? Where are all the works focusing on a narrow aspect of the history? And where the hell are all the Chinese scholars? And why do no historical works originating from China get any translations here? Are they just super biased, or what? Or is the Chinese government just super uncooperative?
And sorry for the lewd pic, but my HDD is fucked, and her being Chinese is the best I could do.
>>2318346
Iv always wondered the same thing.
I think it has to do with the language barrier, and us just not translating enough of it before the communists came in.
Yeah it's like the communists tried to eradicate chinese culture or something. Really makes you think.
>>2318346
Because Chinks have been writing their history since 1950s. New Temples, new parts of Great Wall, new "chronicles". Its so cheap and rude level of falsification, that not worth to see.
>oversaw explosive rise in Iraqi economy in the 80s
>secular
>fought Jihad against Shia heretics
Let's face it he was really /ourguy/, mA
He deserved that shank up the ass if you ask me
>>2318345
>t. Khamenei
>>2318345
That was Gaddafi, you busta
1.6 million Russians descend upon the Tushino Airfield to listen to Metallica, AC/DC, Pantera, The Black Crowes, E.S.T. and Queensryche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mtilj2gKz0
It was pretty insane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeSuC3a7FD4
>>2317300
yes, hedonists love to have ''''''''''''''''''''''''harmless fun'''''''''''''''''''''''''
ITT: We trigger /his/
>>2316018
>Agile and skilled infantrymen developed techniques for dealing with mounted knights. Almogavars, for example, were rugged warriors from the mountainous regions of Aragon and Catalonia who wore no armor and fought with javelin and short stabbing sword. They were used extensively as mercenaries in Italy and Greece. One, who was captured by a Crusader army in thirteenth-century Greece, was pitted against a fully armed and armored mounted Angevin knight as an entertainment for his captors, the assumption being that the knight would easily overwhelm so lightly equipped an opponent: “The almogavar awaited the knight’s charge, then at the last moment hurled his javelin—the azcona—into his opponent’s horse, dodged the latter’s lance then jumped on the unfortunate knight as he fell from his wounded horse and held a knife to his throat. At this point the duel was stopped.” Armed with a colltell, a cross between a knife and a butcher’s cleaver, an Almogavar foot soldier could do very serious damage to a knight, armored as he might be. A contemporary source records that at the battle of Kephissos in 1311 the Spanish light infantrymen ran in among the heavily armored Frankish knights of the Duke of Athens and massacred them. One “gave such a cut that the greave with the leg came off in one piece and besides it entered half a palm into the horse’s flank.”