File: 800px-Map-DR-Prussia.svg.png (153KB, 800x679px) Image search:
[Google]
153KB, 800x679px
Is there a bigger meme?
30 Posts / 6 Images
View this topic
>>
>>2244968
>THOUSAND
>YEAR
>REICH
>>
File: 1484601755815.png (473KB, 600x580px) Image search:
[Google]
473KB, 600x580px
>Nazi's want a 1000 year Reich
>Lasts 12 years
>>
>>2244968
>Dresden was a war crime
>Blitzing London wasnt
>Shelling Warsaw with railway guns wasnt
File: ChgF6avUcAAuQm-.png (1MB, 600x1067px) Image search:
[Google]
1MB, 600x1067px
Did we have anything comparable to antiseptics before the advent of science and germ theory? Like, just from trial and error, did we find anything that prevented/helped with treating infections in open wounds even if we didn't understand the mechanics at all?
18 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
Honey and heat
>>
Poultices.
>>
>>2244956
Vinegar was used in medieval Europe.
File: Europe_Map_914.png (132KB, 2214x1755px) Image search:
[Google]
132KB, 2214x1755px
How did the Roman Empire never try to fully annex Persian empire, despite sacked their capital many times?
10 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>2244878
To much land to govern
>>
>>2244878
They sacked an administrative center that the Persian kings liked to use to control taxes and trade in Mesopotamia. Actually crossing the Zagros mountains and taking the Iranian plateau proper is a far more difficult problem, one which would severely challenge Roman logistics due to a lack of navigable rivers and coasts to ship in troops and supplies.
>>
>>2244878
If Alexander could do it, it's technically possible. It would be a nightmare, and you'd need so many troops that Europe would be defenceless. And then the money and supplies you need.
It's easier just to fuck some slaves in your villa.
File: art-krasivye-kartinki-troyanskijj-kon-839534-600x456.jpg (103KB, 600x456px) Image search:
[Google]
103KB, 600x456px
In my dad's retirement he's gone back to school to complete a masters in War Studies. This got us talking about various wars and we noticed something kind of interesting.
A lot of modern sayings or names extend from past military actions. These names have survived hundred or thousands of years and continue to be used in common parlance. for example, a marathon (from the battle of marathon), the Trojan Horse (in reference to the virus, and others), going on a crusade, he's a nazi etc etc.
My question for /his/ is can they think of a historical word or phrase that is used by an average person that does not have any sort of military origin.
My first thought was calling some one a saint, but there is no real single event for this. I'll update the thread as I think of any as well.
20 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
The first two that I think of are, calling someone a Benedict Arnold to reference a traitor or Uncle Tom as a race traitor.
>>
>>2244787
People saying they're being crucified when treated unfairly/harshly (Jesus)
>>
>>2244856
But the Roman (military) crucified more people then just Jesus.
File: IMG-20170118-WA0000.jpg (58KB, 899x1599px) Image search:
[Google]
58KB, 899x1599px
Hello /his/,
My friend found this helmet and we've been trying to identify it, does anyone know who it could have belonged to?
Thanks.
10 Posts / 7 Images
View this topic
>>
>>2244754
Got any pictures that aren't horrible?
Where did you find it?
>>
Tried to brighten it for you OP.
>>
>>2245496
Post war Romanian maybe? The ridges are kinda odd.
Anonymous
The Revolutions of 1848 2017-01-19 02:34:13 Post No.2244729
[Report] Image search: [Google]
The Revolutions of 1848 2017-01-19 02:34:13 Post No.2244729
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: CA8B6D94-C6A0-470E-A7B9-A21C6EC63F0F-187-0000004B6D67D4F4_tmp.jpg (15KB, 240x187px) Image search:
[Google]
15KB, 240x187px
What do you think that is the most important thing about the revolutions of 1848?
7 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
It laid the foundations for the creation of the modern Italian state.
>>
>>2244729
That the German nations and Habsburg ones got crushed militarily. This would cement autocracy in these states rather than allow peaceful democratic assemblies.
>>
>>2244750
THIS
Mazzini, Cavour, and Garibaldi had to pick up the pieces of the Italian peninsula and painstakingly unite them from foreign control.
Umayyad expansion
Who or what halted Umayyad expansion into the Caucasus? 2017-01-19 02:28:21 Post No.2244707
[Report] Image search: [Google]
Who or what halted Umayyad expansion into the Caucasus? 2017-01-19 02:28:21 Post No.2244707
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: Umayyads.jpg (121KB, 1458x620px) Image search:
[Google]
121KB, 1458x620px
Who or what halted Umayyad expansion into the Caucasus?
Umayyad expansion
2017-01-19 02:28:21
Post No. 2244707
[Report]
[View this topic]
The Umayyad empire at it's height stretched from the Arabian peninsula to Iberia in 661-750 A.D. The Byzantines held no territory in the Caucasus, so who exactly stopped them from expanding north? Was it simply geographic barriers?
14 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
>>2244707
Anime
>>
The holy mother of Christ, Islam is literally satanic.
>>
theres literally nothing of interest for them in the north
they did send a diplomat which managed to convert the volga bulgar to islam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Fadlan
File: 832672984732.png (358KB, 495x750px) Image search:
[Google]
358KB, 495x750px
I've heard some people here saying it's hypocritical to support refugees coming to our country but also say African countries today have problems because the arbitrary borders mixed ethno-religious groups that didn't have any intent or want to be mixed together. I'll explain it simply to dispel the myth that they're the same situation:
Country A is mainly comprised of Group 1. Groups 2 and 3 immigrated to Country A peacefully. Groups 1,2, and 3 never had conflict before this mass immigration.
Country B was created by Country A and is mainly comprised of Group 4 and 5. Groups 4 and 5 have hated each other for centuries due to a multitude of issues including war and famine. Country A decided to ignore this issue and make them one country instead of two.
Do you see how this might create problems? It's like if the US made Poland and Germany one country after WW2. It's idiotic.
48 Posts / 6 Images
View this topic
>>
no no don't you understand? Europeans are advanced and enlightened, only primitive dumb brown people need homogeneous nations
>>
>>2244647
>European colonialism coexisting
>not the elites draining the resources of the brown people
>>
>>2244647
>arbitrary borders
File: julius evola.jpg (66KB, 350x483px) Image search:
[Google]
66KB, 350x483px
Im going through complete works of various philosophers from all sides of the political spectrums/religious/ect
I just bought the complete works of julius evola and all of his essays and im about to dive into them on Friday.
What does /his/ think of the radical traditionalist evola?
13 Posts / 3 Images
View this topic
>>
>>2244636
>he buys books XD
I wish I had money too...
>>
>>2244670
get a fucking job, NEET. Nothing beats the feeling of a real book
>>
He's underrated as a philosopher and writer. His symbolic interpretation of history and excentric views and biography makes him one of the most interesting personalities of the 20th century.
File: 1484033459108.png (324KB, 560x366px) Image search:
[Google]
324KB, 560x366px
What good history/philosophy books does /his/ reccomend?
13 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge - James Robert Brown
No. Really. Very well written, concise book.
>>
>>2244577
I was thinking more along the lines of John Calvin or Augustine of Hippo
>>
>>2244568
Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard
Candide, Voltaire
Confessions, St. Augustine
Leviathan, Hobbed
Politics, Aristotle
Discouse on Method, Descartes
Tao Te Ching, Tzu
The Prince, Machiavelli
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzche
On War, Clausewitz
All of Aquinas
File: download (1).gif (14KB, 496x498px) Image search:
[Google]
14KB, 496x498px
*Record scratch*
*Freeze frame*
Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.
25 Posts / 3 Images
View this topic
>>
>>2244475
Austrian here, Poland had it coming.
>>
>>2244516
>Poland is the only reason your country didn't become a Turkish frontier in the 17th century.
>"Poland had it coming."
>>
>>2244534
yes to the second
File: Russian_claims_in_the_americas_19th_century.png (28KB, 669x989px) Image search:
[Google]
28KB, 669x989px
What would have happen if Russia didn't sale Alaska to the US?
21 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
>>2244434
Canadian annexation in 1917.
>>
>>2244453
please explain.
>>
>>2244434
I made a powerpoint for a project in highschool where we had to create our own country. I was the one kid that didn't just make something up, and I actually used this exact premise.
File: 0dd03e2b8d1051dfbd29762df82cd731.jpg (133KB, 768x1024px) Image search:
[Google]
133KB, 768x1024px
Why are Lenin and Stalin regarded as misunderstood heroes on this board, while Mao is regarded as a ridiculous incompetent?
26 Posts / 6 Images
View this topic
>>
Because Mao really was a fucking idiot.
t. Chinaman
>>
>>2244423
Moreso than the Soviets?
>>
>>2244441
Mao was brilliant at leading his guerilla movement and his was politically smart in the sense that he had political capital
A lot of his economic changes then go against this, it's hard to tell if he was driven by pure ideology or if he was just inept
Anonymous
Why was Irish monasticism big in the Middle Ages 2017-01-19 01:13:19 Post No.2244339
[Report] Image search: [Google]
Why was Irish monasticism big in the Middle Ages 2017-01-19 01:13:19 Post No.2244339
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: irish monks.jpg (84KB, 450x342px) Image search:
[Google]
84KB, 450x342px
Why was Irish monasticism big in the Middle Ages
Anonymous
2017-01-19 01:13:19
Post No. 2244339
[Report]
[View this topic]
many historians have said it was Ireland, specifically the Irish Monks that saved Western Civilization from total collapse after the fall of Rome.
http://epicworldhistory.blogspot.com/2013/07/golden-age-of-irish-monastic-scholarship.html
here is a great article on it
10 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
how the fuck did ireland get its hands on ancient greek and roman texts compared to the rest of western europe at the time?
>>
>Irish
>doing anything besides drinking and dying from potato famines
>>
>>2244454
>how the fuck did ireland get its hands on ancient greek and roman texts compared to the rest of western europe at the time?
African theologians of the desert fathers era who fled to the north.
>inb4 we wuz
File: Maginot Line Diagram resized.png (173KB, 900x480px) Image search:
[Google]
173KB, 900x480px
*blocks your path*
31 Posts / 7 Images
View this topic
>>
>>2244218
It would have been REALLY FUCKING COOL if we saw how well the line actually worked
>>
>>2244223
Technically we did
>>
>>2244241
Yeah, Germans just went around it. Pretty much did what a fortification is supposed to do.