Born just in time to see the rise of Soviet Union and live long enough to witness the collapse of its must be an epic experience.
>>2175815
Unless you were Russian
>>2176042
When was a good time to be Russian?
>>2175815
Which part the the epic collective farming or the epic part where they were propped up as a boogy man to justify judeocapitalistic imperialism?
I thought you guys might like this, type in a year and see what the map looked like back then.
http://geacron.com/home-en/?&sid=GeaCron702901
is this a virus
>>2176180
Are you retarded. No.
>>2175798
Just went through all human history.
Just finished this book, and found it to be a pretty interesting Anthropological look at a historical time period.
Have you read it /his/?
What did you think? Good info/insight into the world (or at least England) as it was then?
Similar books? Books that do the same thing better?
>>2175819
>WE WUZ
What did he mean by this
>>2175869
Theres 2 black people on the frontpage
>book about medieval Europe
>oh cool I love that time perio-
>14th century
Every time.
What are the greatest or more important philosophers of our time, /his/?
>>2175701
>more important philosophers of our time
Pewdiepie, Filthy Frank, John Green, Vsauce trio, etc.
nick land
alex dugin
What went wrong?
>>2175569
> bad trade routes
> No colonialism
> Squeezed by major nations all around
Source: EU4
>>2175569
>posting polish revisionist shit invented by some pollack nationalist in 19th century
>>2175579
What part of the image is false?
What was St. Augustine's beef with Manichaeism?
>>2175440
Because he used to be one and rebelled against it like an edgy teen.
>>2175608
But he was like that with Christianity too before he converted to Mani. Then he converted back later.
>>2175440
Manichaeism is literally coexist crap made by some guy who combined a bunch of religious ideologies sand rolled it into one
>dude all the religions conside with each other lmao
St. Augustine wasn't a hippie
Prove the Great Man theory of history wrong.
protip: you can't
The rise and fall of polities is overwhelmingly determined by technology and geography, individual merit plays little role, it is just that hierarchy is a natural power structure so there is always some guy at the top who claims the credit for everything.
I don't agree with whiny leftists like John Green. This does not mean they were not great men. Napoleon had to be doing something right when there were plenty of other officers with more money and influence than him who didn't reach the same heights. Also history is the history of people so the pinnacle of these hierarchies is going to be of interest, it is not a crime. I only oppose making the mistake of confusing external factors for individual merit.
If you value individual merit wouldn't you want to know the truth? What really made them tick?
>>2175235
There is no way to distinguish merit from sufficiently good fortune.
Prove me wrong.
>>2175206
President Trump adds some credence to the great man theory within our lifetime. One man with intelligence, charisma, and means managed to challenge the ruling elite and win. This being said, without voters listening to his message he couldn't have succeeded. So it works both ways. A Great man comes to mobilize the masses but someone needs to be there to answer the call.
Why would anyone even want to be a Byzantine emperor? More often then not they end up deposed, killed or blinded and sent to a monastery.
Why not just live a comfy life as a mid-level bureaucrat?
power, sex, and respect
>>2175060
If you solidified your rule, you would easily be the most powerful and rich man/woman alive.
>In the prevailing account, Phaethon, challenged by his playmates, sought assurance from his mother that his father was the sun god Helios. She gave him the requested assurance and told him to turn to his father for confirmation. He asked his father for some proof that would demonstrate his relationship with the sun. When the god promised to grant him whatever he wanted, he insisted on being allowed to drive the sun chariot for a day.[6] Placed in charge of the chariot, he was unable to control the horses. The Earth was in danger of being burnt up and, to prevent this disaster, Zeus was forced to strike down the chariot with a thunderbolt and kill Phaethon in the process.[7]
how do I know if the things people say are against my self-interest actually are?
why would anyone say anything for anyone's interest but their own
Be true to yourself
>>2175054
You either need to be smarter than everyone else, or you need to find someone whose opinion you trust, either because you know them to be impartial or because they have your best wishes at heart, as for example with a parent.
>citizens elected legislators who wrote policy and appointed the heads of state and supreme court
>literal peasants could and did become incredibly powerful politicians
Why the fuck do liberals say the Soviet Union was not a democracy?
>one party
>>2175049
The elections were rigged and the candidates pre-determined. Good idea in concept though.
>>2175053
>The elections were rigged and the candidates pre-determined.
Source?
what was his fucking problem?
>>2175013
He was a sociopath.
>>2175013
question: why do leftist pretend he never existed or that his work has any influence at all?
He was angry the working class didn't want the revolution anymore.
Without looking it up, tell me what you know about Korean culture.
Bonus points to something obviously Japanese or Chinese in origin
>>2174931
Plastic surgery
>>2174931
They like Starcraft to unhealthy levels.
>>2174931
One time, the wind favoured them and Josan + wind blew the Japanese the fuck out.
A lot of the monarchs are buried in this one town not too far from Daegu.
King Josan simplified the characters from Chinese so that more people could be literate. I think there used to be more characters, but some were omitted.
People there do guerrilla gardening, as there is so little space.
>>2174934
I remember all I saw there. There's a term that translates to "Gangnam Girls" because they all have plastic surgery there. Mostly nose and double eyelids, they don't go for tit implants often.
Why was the Babylonian Talmud chosen as the authoritative Oral Torah text over the Jerusalem/Palestinian Talmud?
How do Jews reconcile the two Talmuds if they are both considered to be the Oral Torah in written form?
>>2174501
Probably something with Babylonian supremacy in clerical rulings.
The Babylonian targum was also made the official targum instead of the Palestinian targum but Babylonian and Palestinian pointing were both superseded by the Tiberian pointing.
After the Jews were repatriated to their homeland Babylon still remained the center of scholarship since there was more stability and wealth where as Judaea was probably in need of reconstruction and development. The wars with the Romans didn't help either so the development of religious studies had consistent reason to be centered in the Babylonia region until the Muslim conquests.
>>2174738
A little off topic but I dont understand the whole repatriated thing. Didn't the Babylonians only take the Jewish elite? How did their descendants just step into an already occupied area and take back control without a war?
Weren't the Samaritans Jews who did not get taken and did not accept the changes that took place during that period?
>shits himself
What did he mean by this?
>>2174187
>4th grade maybe
>friend shits himself out of nowhere
>people notice
>he's starting to cry
>feel bad, pretend that it was me
>he takes me out to "clean me up"
To this day I have no idea why I did that, probably a combination of moralfaggotry and autism. Anyway I hope you enjoyed my somewhat irrelevant shitting story.
>>2174210
you were a good friend
>>2174210
Honestly a really decent thing to do.
Two thumbs up
>the Romans had neither coffee nor chocolate
How did they survive, /his/?
>>2174154
Cut down on sugar.
You'll feel better.
>>2174154
by not being addicted?
Also, sleeping during the night time, how humans are supposed to.
>>2174163
neither coffee nor chocolate have sugar in them