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Did you know that the Moorish invasion of Spain was made possible in thanks to the efforts of the last Byzantine governor (exarch) of Africa?
The records reference him as 'Count Julian', who ruled over the last remnants of the Byzantine possessions in North Africa (centered on Ceuta), and who allowed the Moors passage across his domain (which they had been unable to cross, due to its mountainous terrain) and into Visigothic Spain. He also provided them with intelligence/supplies, and furthermore, purposefully neglected to inform his neighbors to the north that an invasion force was coming.
God-damn, it's stuff like this that makes me love the Byzantines. They lost all their possessions in Spain to the Visigoths, so in revenge, one of them allies himself with the Moors to make THEM lose Spain.
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>>2265796
He was cucked in the process too, so from a hystorical pov you could say he was one of the first persons to die of severe butthurt.
Nevertheless, 1204 remains the best day of my life, followed by 378, the 1305-1307 catalan holidays in Grease, 1071 and 1453.
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>>2265964
>He was cucked in the process too, so from a hystorical pov
>He
Count Julian actually did fairly well: he was granted land by the Moors in exchange for his service, and the territory under his control was not subject to raids or attacks. There's a legend that he apparently lived with guilt for the rest of his life, but it just reeks of later invention.
Now the Byzantines weren't particularly "cucked" either: Spain had already been lost to the Visigoths in the previous century, and so had Africa to the Fatimids. Ceuta was literally a fringe outpost of little relevance that remained Byzantine less because of the Imperial government's willingness to retain it within the Byzantine sphere, but because it was so remote and its terrain hard to overcome.
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>>2266015
Ceuta was already Visigoth clay since the late VII. Whether this count was of Byzantine or Visigoth origin isn't really known.
What is known is that he was a cuck of the visigoth king before 711 and a cuck of the moors after 711.
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Was the French Revolution really that bad?
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YES
The Drownings at Nantes (French: Noyades de Nantes) were a series of mass executions by drowning during the Reign of Terror in Nantes, France, that occurred between November 1793 and February 1794. During this period, anyone arrested and jailed for not consistently supporting the Revolution, or suspected of being a royalist sympathizer, especially Catholic priests and nuns, was cast into the Loire and drowned on the orders of Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the representative-on-mission in Nantes. Before the murders ceased, as many as four thousand or more people, including innocent families with women and children, died in what Carrier himself called "the national bathtub".[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drownings_at_Nantes
The Vendée. Secher argued that the actions of the French republican government during the War in the Vendée was the first modern genocide.[51] Secher's claims caused a minor uproar in France amongst scholars of modern French history, as many mainstream authorities on the period – both French and foreign – published articles rejecting Secher's claims.[52][53][54][55][56]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_the_Vend%C3%A9e#Genocide_controversy
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>>2265783
Read about it yourself and draw your own conclusions, don't tell people to do it for you.
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>>2265783
When you go from Louis XIV to Francois Hollande the only answer is yes
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Questions about visiting an Orthodox Church
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So I was raised in a baptist household in the south. I've never liked it there and I believe it gave me a lot of issues that I have with organized religion to this day. As I've matured I've started doing some searching in my life. My parents always were bothered by the fact that I was never baptized.
In my college town I've been looking around for a church to checkout some upcoming Sunday. I've done some reading on the Greek Orthodox church, and I like what they are about. The manner in which they interpret the bible along with their strong dedication to tradition. I've read a lot about what the church means and it's beliefs, but I'm fuzzy on their actual worship. Here is what I want to know
> Are there any rites or practices I need to be aware of when visiting a service?
> Will everything during the service be straightforward to me or will it be hidden amidst ritual?
> Will I get anything out of this?
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If you go to them Christ will profit you nothing
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>>2265511
>lel the church is LITERALLY the body of Christ... also the bread is too, the church and bread are like the trinity you see? Separate but the same!!
It's cancer
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Man this is the funniest shit.
Weak minded /pol/ tards.
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>first ever democratic state
>collapsed because of disagreements and corruption
wew
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ur mom
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>>2265501
That's not Palestine
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>>2265501
Liberum veto
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Why did medieval youth grow slower than modern youth? Osteological evidence suggests that medieval youth grew into their 20s and measurements of the length of the femoral shaft in children indicates that they lack a growth spurt that is indicative of puberty
So puberty was not experienced until later teens and continued into the 20s rather than reaching full physical maturity in later teens like today.
Do we know why this is?
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Nutritional deficiencies can stunt and delay growth, especially protein deficiencies. Puberty has been getting younger and younger in modern times, through a combination of a higher protein diet and unusual hormones in food.
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>>2265503
Some quick googling also suggests that childhood obesity can cause early onset of puberty (as well as making it end prematurely)
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>>2265503
I've seen charts showing that medieval people were actually quite tall due to the medieval warm period improving harvests and shit. But I suppose poor diet, despite being abundant, would delay growth and would explain why it was so widespread to consider true adulthood only at like 25 or so.
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Who benefited from the Crusades?
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Nobody.
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Constantinople
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Ottomans
Is it a blessing in disguise that modern society doesn't take philosophy seriously?
If they tried to -- lacking the strength for recognising the primacy of philosophers of the Spinoza, Stirner, Nietzsche, Alex Kierkegaard type -- they would glorify only those who appease the majority's weaknesses, state-sanctioned. Perhaps even those who provide the greatest antidote to the aforementioned, the corruptions (as Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Foucault are for Nietzsche).
Instead with philosophy's disregard or ridicule, we at least have that a chaotic laise faire liberal realpolitik political mess, that allows elitism to thrive in the fields where the masses have no immediate grasp. (Our culture continues to grow because in the midst of democratic political degeneration a few individuals proudly and unapologetically continue the tyrannical, despotic tradition in businesses, armies, universities, sports teams, cultural clubs, the arts, and so on. If democracy were instituted in every field of human endeavor — instead of merely in politics — with the soldiers voting on what the army should do, students the school and universities, workers the business, the uncultured the arts, etc., civilization on this planet would be wiped out within a generation, and we would revert to barbarism — if we didn't all starve to death well before that, that is, which we so obviously would.)
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>Instead with philosophy's disregard or ridicule
The philosophy degree have always be ridiculed by your average simpleton.
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>>2265435
Damn those British chicks are beautiful.
Bethany Hughes is my perfect waifu from about 10-15 years ago
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>>2265465
There's a really young one who does some humanities stuff but i forget her name.
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Why is there no historical evidence of the first man and woman to exist in history?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
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>>2265395
Women are a myth
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>>2265395
I recall the first man was some scribe who wrote down his name, Sumerian I believe.
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Was Roman culture the most masculine culture?
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No. Feudal Japan was.
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>>2265380
Ancient Hellas
Even the lovemaking was 100% masculine
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George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Teddy Roosevelt
Robert Lee
Americans basically.
Samurai are cool too. Or the Maori in NZ
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*According to the bible*, how is an individual supposed to make it into the Kingdom of Heaven?
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I don't know but you definitely can't be rich.
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Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. -- Matthew 5:10
Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. -- Matthew 18:3, Mark 10:15
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. -- John 3:5
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. -- John 3:3
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. -- Matthew 7:21
Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. -- Matthew 5:20
There be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it. -- Matthew 19:12
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>>2265234
Given the numerous interpretations and meaning you can give to verses, paraboles etc. you only have to read it and figure out for yourself. Some say predestination, some say worldly actions... Try your own.
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The Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East was the coziest time in human history. Prove me wrong.
>nations comprised of ethnoreligious people; people in their homelands thought their gods were better than other gods
>but if you travelled to another land, you showed respect to the local gods since you believed it was their domain (if this doesn't sound cute as fuck, you have no soul)
>some peoples had gods of beer and wine
>trade flourished in the Eastern Med, it was like a globalized world but Jews were just one minor ethnoreligious group in the region, not masterminds of the entire thing
>massive cultural and technological exchange (e.g. Ancient Egypt had some cultural influence from Mesopotamian culture and also picked up new technology)
>just as much mouthwatering internal political intrigue and diplomatic dealings as today
>many nations had to deal with issues like migrations and invasions, but they were dealt with in a more natural way, and welcomed newcomers (i.e. not mass invaders) would actually adapt to the local culture
>people were JUST beginning to think about their place in the world, JUST starting to develop basic technology and architecture, and you can see trial-and-error in many cases (hate to bring up Egypt again, but look at the early pyramids, and also the first time they built columns, they didn't realize they could stand up on their own, so they attached them to the walls)
>followed by a societal collapse, and a rebirth of some of the most influential and intellectually prolific civilizations in history
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>>2265178
Daily reminder that the French are Trojans.
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>Egypt was the only nation to survive the collapse
Gotta give them some respect for that.
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>trade flourished in the Eastern Med, it was like a globalized world but Jews were just one minor ethnoreligious group in the region, not masterminds of the entire thing
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new on history, post history related youtube channels, things to lurk except wikipedia
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Crash course history.
Funny *check*
Goes into detail *check*
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Gulf War = Best planned military operation in history 2017-01-23 11:27:58 Post No.2264927
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Gulf War = Best planned military operation in history
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>956,600 Coalition troops
>292 KIA
>650,000 Iraqi troops
>20,000 KIA
>4964 civilian deaths
The First Gulf War was the tidiest, best planned military operation in human history, in terms of achieving its war aims.
The death toll was extremely low considering the extent of the bombing campaign and the number of troops mobilized, it was the largest troop movement since WW2.
G. H. Bush is an underrated President.
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>G. H. Bush is an underrated President.
Did he plan it?
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>>2264927
>G. H. Bush is an underrated President.
>Bush having anything to do with the planning
Neck yourself.
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Can we say that George W. Bush was to G. H. Bush what Napoleon III was to Napoleon?
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>the last World War I veteran died in your lifetime
>the last World War II veteran will die in your lifetime
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Not if you kill yourself before that happens
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>the last 30 Years War veteran died before you were born
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>the last Punic war veteran died before you were born
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Why would God treat his son so poorly?
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Why do people hate the Jews if god made them kill Jesus? Also wasn't Jesus dying the best thing that ever happened in the history of mankind according to Christianity? Shouldn't you thank the Jews? If they never killed Jesus everyone would still go to hell
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He knew he'd respawn in 3 days
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>>2264733
>Why would God treat himself so poorly
Trinitarians your move