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Who built the Stonehange? I bet it was Mike Tyson.
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>>2252029
People from Orkney islands called the Grooved Ware Culture.
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>>2252068
WE
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>>2252068
Never heard that one before.
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Was he a skilled general?
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yes, he found a way to maximize russian casualties while still managing to win
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He's a national hero of both Koreas.
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Half of those medals are from Hitler for causing excessive Soviet casualties.
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American History and the Reset Button
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2017-01-20 01:26:14
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So, I have a question for /his/.
As an American, I've always wondered one thing about the history of my country.
Which do you think was more traumatic and caused the most drastic change to the country as a whole, the American Civil War or 9/11?
Which one was the bigger "cultural reset button" for the United States?
Pic unrelated
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>>2251431
Also, one more thing. Please leave all /pol/ bullshit at the door.
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>1860-1865
>2001
Is this even a question?
Try to compare the number of slain Americans, razed citizens, and assassinated Presidents during both of these time periods and you tell me what you think is a more traumatic event.
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>>2251447
I'm talking in terms of long-term impact on American politics and culture. Not in terms of body count or property damage.
Honestly, from the perspective of "resetting the culture", it's close, but I'd still go American Civil War.
Why was Leopold I such a gigantic cunt to Sobieski after the latter saved his capital?
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>>2251139
look at those big lips and those dumb eyes and that crinkled hair
black people are right there were niggers in europe in the past
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>>2251139
look at this fags face, he just looks like cunt that needs a good whipping
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>>2251139
are habsburgs even white ?
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Post your Plantagenet rulers rankings (including York and Lancaster)
Henry IV > Edward III > Edward I > Henry II > Henry V > Edward IV > Henry III > Edward V > Richard III > John > Richard I > Henry VI > Richard II > Edward II
No "Normans were vikings" or "French civil war" memeing allowed in this thread please
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>>2250850
>No "Normans were vikings" or "French civil war" memeing allowed in this thread please
Why would anyone even mention the Normans?
The Plantagenet were a French family from Anjou, not from Normandy
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>>2250850
>"French civil war" memeing
I'd say the argument falls on both sides.
It's retarded to talk about nations in the middle ages, however the HYW heavily influenced the formation of French and English national identities. So you can't really describe it as a French civil war, or an Anglo-French war. More as a war lead by French nobles who ruled England against the French king(s)
Now that that's out of the way. The Plantagenets are my favorite English dynasty.
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>>2250850
No Margaret of Anjou?
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Why couldn't the USSR implement similar reforms to China to get their economy moving again?
Especially when they had to have seen how well it was working out for the PRC.
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>>2250849
There were no commies in charge of USSR after Stalin's death. The whole process of "de-stalinisation" was a slow start towards modern Russia. Hence the broken relations between Mao and Khruschev.
Think about it, why would you denounce the greatest leader Russia ever had, no, communists ever had, as a head of the same communist country? Because you don't want that country and it's legacy to succeed. It's that simple.
Also modern PRC is a capitalist country. Don't forget that.
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Because they did not think to do it.
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>>2250849
Gorbachev was a weak man who wanted liberalization too fast and couldn't exercise force and control after his naive ideal started undermining the entire bureaucratic structure.
What was the most insane civilization in history? Was it the Aztecs?
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>Saladin
Gets me every time
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>>2250534
Wow they really made the artstyle shit
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>>2250534
God Civilization feels like such a garbage game after playing Paradox titles.
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Was it autism?
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>>2250346
>Was it autism?
Was it autism?
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>>2250346
Is this the episode where he talks about how the sinking of the Repulse was actually a British victory?
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>>2250346
ITS CLASSIC "BRITISH INGENUITY"
>this man kills the commies
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>>2250072
Who is he?
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>>2251971
You'll hear more about him, he goes by the name of Peterson and believes in Jungian woo
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>>2250072
Heard him on Joe Rogan. Very interesting dude
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>General Sheridan, when this particular war began, I thought a cavalryman should be at least six feet four inches high, but I have changed my mind. Five feet four will do in a pinch.
What did he mean by this, /his/?
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complimenting general sheridan on his battle prowess
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>>2250013
Lincoln was initially critical of manlets, but began to see their quality.
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>If [Lincoln] was alive during the time of the Savior, Judas Iscariot himself would have remained a respected member of the fraternity of Apostles"
- McClellan
was he right?
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Did pirate ships really sneak up on British ships? I am watching black sails and to me it seems unrealistic that an active crew wouldn't notice an approaching vassal. (Except at night of course)
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They would fly the flag of the country of the ship they were approaching, so as to hide in plain sight as a friendly vessel
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>>2251497
They would also change the rigging and deck configuration to disguise themselves as a different type of ship like a whaler, cruise ship, or junk ship to lure the other boat into a false sense of security.
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>>2251499
oh wow, I didn't realise boats were modular. That's pretty cool anon.
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Why did Australia end up becoming much more successful than Canada?
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No French """""people""""""
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Canada is a much superior country tho
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>>2249500
The Emus took over after their glorious victory over the unwashed Anglo hordes
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>1991 is no longer covered by the 25-year rule
Should Germany have been allowed reunification?
>A poll of four countries in January 1990 found that a majority of surveyed Americans supported reunification, while British and Poles were more divided. 69% of Poles and 50% of French and British stated that they worried about a reunified Germany becoming "the dominant power in Europe". Those surveyed stated several concerns, including Germany again attempting to expand its territory, a revival of Nazism, and the German economy becoming too powerful. While British, French and Americans favored Germany remaining a member of NATO, a majority of Poles supported neutrality for the reunified nation.
>Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that neither the United Kingdom nor Western Europe wanted the reunification of Germany. Thatcher also clarified that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it, telling Gorbachev "We do not want a united Germany".
>Although she welcomed East German democracy, Thatcher worried that a rapid reunification might weaken Gorbachev, and favoured Soviet troops staying in East Germany as long as possible to act as a counterweight to a united Germany.
>Thatcher, who carried in her handbag a map of Germany's 1937 borders to show others the "German problem", feared that its "national character", size and central location in Europe would cause the nation to be a "destabilizing rather than a stabilizing force in Europe".
>The pace of events surprised the French, whose Foreign Ministry had concluded in October 1989 that reunification "does not appear realistic at this moment". A representative of French President François Mitterrand reportedly told an aide to Gorbachev, "France by no means wants German reunification, although it realises that in the end it is inevitable."
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>>2249001
>Should Germany have been allowed reunification?
Yes. France fucked themself with the Euro though.
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>and the German economy becoming too powerful
translation: waahhh we can't compete on the world stage with our economically-stiffling social democracies and gibs germany's better at managing this shit than us ;;;;(((
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>>2249107
>economically-stiffling social democracies
Germany is one of the most social democratic countries in the world, more so than the US, UK, or France certainly.
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Reccomend me some good Historical Movies
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>>2248819
Your pic obviously
Master and Commander
Der Untergang
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>>2248819
This is a cool movie I recently saw about the Eternal Anglo.
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Why didn't the Ottoman Empire or any of the earlier Caliphates explore the Atlantic Ocean or colonize the Americas? They held Morocco and sailed extensively around the Indian Ocean for centuries before Columbus, and yet, they never even managed to colonize Madeira, a few hundred km due west of the major Almohad port at Safi.
What went wrong?
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>>2248398
They controlled access to the Silk Road and the Indian Ocean Trade. They didn't need to sail West like the Europeans eventually did. Columbus's journey was literally a shot in the dark trying to gain direct access to the Chinese markets, which the Ottoman's already had.
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>>2248398
1. One of the main reasons for Europeans to sail across and beyond the Atlantic was to get around the Ottoman Empire.
2. The Ottomans couldn't escape the Mediterranean Sea without attacking Spain or Portugal.
3. The Ottomans did sail around the Indian Ocean.
4. Portugal crushed any of the Ottoman attempts to sail around Africa and to the Atlantic
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>colonize the Americas?
The Gibraltar Straits are too easily blockaded. Its why there were no serious Italian City State led colonies in the new world.
Also why would they? They are as close as they can get to the silk road.