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Why did it take so long for people to realize inbreeding was a bad idea?
I can sort of understand why the peasants who probably couldn't trace their genealogy back more than their grandparents might not catch on, but why did the royals with their extensive records on family trees not realize that it only takes a few generations of cousin fucking to have fucked up kids?
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They knew but they didn't care don't quote on me this but the church did its best to prevent peasants from impregnating their cousins in its inception.
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>>2275678
Why didn't they care? Surely you wouldn't want your successor to be a total fucking retard who either fucks everything you've accomplished up with bad decisions or just sits there drooling while advisers or whoever actually run things.
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>>2275666
Royals did it because marriage was the way for them to gain more power without going to war (therefore not having to spend money on troops) and eventually there were only a few families in control because they became conglomerates and therefore potato babies
Also they didn't want mix with lower castes
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Summarise the whole history of Wallonia
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forever cucked by superior flemish
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>>2275755
Before the second world war, Walloons were considered the superior folk. The upper class spoke French, went to French schools etc
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>>2276046
The belgian upper class that is
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>MUH PELTS
How lucrative was the North American fur trade in the 1700s?
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Britain exported £263,000 worth of beaver pelts in 1750.
This is now equivalent to £54 million per year.
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Considering the Hudson Bay Company spanned a third of the globe, it was lucrative to say the absolute least.
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What major historical figure had the most dramatic death?
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Caesar would be #1
Alexander's death was pretty rad. Get super depressed about your butt buddy dying, get super drunk, then sick/poisoned and die. Except his last words were "to the strongest", and fuck up an empire as a last middle finger to the rest of the world.
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>Once [Valentinian] arrived on 17 November, he received a deputation from the Quadi. In return for supplying fresh recruits to the Roman army, the Quadi were to be allowed to leave in peace. However, before the envoys left they were granted an audience with Valentinian. The envoys insisted that the conflict was caused by the building of Roman forts in their lands; furthermore individual bands of Quadi were not necessarily bound to the rule of the chiefs who had made treaties with the Romans – and thus might attack the Romans at any time. The attitude of the envoys so enraged Valentinian that he suffered a burst blood vessel in the skull while angrily yelling at them, provoking his death
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>>2275643
>You will never be this angry
I would have loved to be a fly in the room just to see the reactions of the envoys, how they accidentally caused the death of the emperor
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When did immigration as a concept start?
Did people suffering from ecological disasters or war become illegal immigrants 500 years ago?
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>>2275511
When did walking as a concept start?
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>>2275511
Nope. They fled to another part of the country or to the next country and most came back once the fighting was far from their town.
We still have that. What is new is to use any hardship you can as an excuse for intercontinental illegal immigration.
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>>2275521
Stop being a dunce I think you understand what I'm asking, a nomad isn't an immigrant, immigration implied strict nation states/kingly realms with defined and controlled borders.
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Why don't the Blemmyes exist anymore?
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>>2275477
We shoot them all in the head, every single one.
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>>2275477
>people with no brains
they still do op
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>>2275477
Blemmyes the product of a Europeans mistranslating "tongue-in-belly", a Vedic epithet for amanita muscaria mushrooms which were used ritualistically as "Soma's flesh". This is also why they are occasionally conflated with anthropophagi, men who each other eat, or drawn with "monopods", who are also a misinterpretation of the mushroom.
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Let's begin thread of greatest sculptures!
Also /beauty/ general.
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>>2275457
You see beuty in brutality and masculinity, I see beauty in its essence, harmony between all things physical.
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Ignore the vape
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Its safe to say that roman empire set back the abolition of slavery by at least a 1000 years.
Before the Romans defeated every other power in the mediterranean, slavery was in significant decline.
Carthage was almost transitioning to mercantile capitalism, and slavery was losing its importance there. There was never such massive chattel slavery there compared to Rome, and it was much easier to buy yourself out of servitude.
Since Alexander's conquest, persian values including the lack of slavery were rapidly being absorbed by hellenic society, and the largest diadoch kingdom, the Seleucids, was almost devoid of slaves. IDK about the other hellenic kingdoms though. And of course the Parthians almost completely lacked slaves. So did the Thracians and Dacians which also had sizeable population.
So we can see that slavery was diminishing in around half of the major powers on the Mediterranean had less slavery than the Romans. If the Romans didn't have a monopoly of power as IRL there would've been far more economic competition which would evolve faster into capitalism, which in turn would diminish the need for chattel slaves, and without the conservative and honestly more brutal Roman society setting the example of an ideal society for powers to come slavery would be viewed as completely ammoral much earlier compared to the late 19th century in our timeline. All of that means no gladiators, no transatlantic slave trade, and also no feudalism.
Finally,without the Roman empire, the only people who primarily drived their economy through slave trade were african KANGS, arabs, celts, and germanics, which were viewed as inferior and barbaric by Hellenes and Carthaginians, and with them slavery would also be viewed as a mark of an inferior civilisation, thus furthering it's demise.
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>>2275444
I didn't read but I respect your opinion
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>>2275444
The Arabs were, are, and always will be the main slavers.
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>>2275455
I expect other things to change with it?
What clan of the sengoku jidai would have done a better job than the Tokugawa in ruling Japan for 200 years until the Meiji restoration?
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>>2275340
Bingo, definitely Bingo, how can you fail when you got Bingo
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>>2275340
Ikko-Ikki
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Personally, I wished Nobunaga had not died because he would've consolidated Japan and not risk that pointless war in Korea.
I think the Date clan would've been best. Masamune favored direct contact with Europe and even commissioned European-style ships. He was also a patron of Christianity.
If the Date clan had been at helm, Japan would've modernized parallel to Europe instead of taking a crash course in 50 years after Perry's expedition. An industrial Japan in the post-Waterloo climate would've been interesting to see. They may have become more liberalized and avoided militarism in favor of being a democratic state. Especially in reaction to the 1848 Revolutions.
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Philosophers and Women 2017-01-25 06:49:13 Post No.2275258
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Why did so many philosophers hate women?
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Social conditions encouraging sexism
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
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Because women are the cause of all evil and cause of the fall of civilizations.
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Who are the real jews? 2017-01-25 06:43:43 Post No.2275232
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Almost everyone of us agree that Ashkenazi jews arnt real jews.
So who are the real jews???
Mizrahi,Sephardi jews etc?
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>>2275232
>Almost everyone of us agree...
[citation needed]
Almost everyone of us no neither knows nor cares about what you are talking about
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>>2275232
>Ashkenazi
>nazi
Really makes me think
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Well Mizrahi are the closest to the original, geographically and culturally.
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Were the Nubian pharaohs black?
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No they were Nordic Aryan Gods like all of egyptians were. I know but this is bait but...
Really nigga?
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>>2275225
They were like Mexicans of today. A mulatto race of mix breeds assimilated by a superior civilization.
60% of Mexicans have European Paternal lineage, but most of these people are interbred with the Native American population.
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Why did God let Moses oil drill even though his red pilled family tried to stop it?
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wat
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>>2275263
Moses had a ethiopian/kushite wife. His brother and Sister were against it so God gave Moses sister leprosy
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>>2275195
The prophets fall into two types: psychopathic charlatans akin to modern televangelists and cult leaders, or, schizophrenics.
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>astur-leonese, galician, catalan, basque and aragonian will disapear in less than a 100 years
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>>2275109
Only Galician has anything worth saving in terms of literature. Castillian is just superior to the other languages
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basque will never disappear Manolo you stupid cunt
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>>2275109
>useless ouga-bouga dialects disappearing
>bad thing
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Is there something inherent about this religion 2017-01-25 05:52:58 Post No.2275081
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Is there something inherent about this religion
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which makes it seem like its thousands of years behind Christianity when it comes to human rights and progressive values?
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Sahih International: The bedouins are stronger in disbelief and hypocrisy and more likely not to know the limits of what [laws] Allah has revealed to His Messenger. And Allah is Knowing and Wise.
Pickthall: The wandering Arabs are more hard in disbelief and hypocrisy, and more likely to be ignorant of the limits which Allah hath revealed unto His messenger. And Allah is Knower, Wise.
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It goes back to their origins
Muhammad was a pedophile war lord
Jesus was a hippie
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To me Islam has always been like the shitty sequel nobody wanted.
It's like terminator 3, while judaism and christianity would be 1/2