I've been here since /his/ was founded, but I never started a folder. IT post /his/ memes
>>2143497
Were the Spanish conquests of the Americas the largest mass rape of all time?
No, it was the greatest tender loving of all time.
Close, but not the closest.
>implying women don't constantly fantasize about being conquered by a stronger group of foreign invaders
i wouldn't call it rape. what do you think #refugeeswelcome is all about?
>be me
>be karl marx
>be bit of an idiot drunkard but with good intentions
>obsessive over economics
>decide to write a book on my interpretations of capitalism and the future of the world economy
>write this during a particularly dangerous revolutionary time period of rising anti-monarchical sentiments
>die
>ideas used in the future
>results in the deaths of millions because of evil dictators and bad economic theory
>somehow this is my fault
Can someone explain? How is this in any way this guy's fault?
>>2178792
>create destructive ideology
>"waa he dindu nuffin!"
also, why do commieboos pretend that Marx was this god tier genius when the retard couldnt even handle a bank account and had to leech off of his friends rich daddy?
>>2178792
>be me
>anonymous poster
>bit of an idiot faggot but with good intentions
>obsessive over shitposting
>decide to post the billionth garl margs killed a gorillion people thread
>write this on a board where left and right wingers sperg over the same 5 or 6 topics over and over again
>die
>thread continues in the future
>results in the deaths of millions because of tired old arguments that pollute the board
>somehow this is my fault
>>2178819
What single piece of modern technology could be sent back in time to the Roman empire to ensure that the imperium would expand from Spain to Korea?
bicycles, they could make spare parts easily
>>2176095
>bikes
>useful in war
Maybe if they also had asphalt.
radio.
What does /his/ think of Sargon of Akkad?
Personally I always found it ironic and rather funny how the first human empire wrought by war and conquest petered out and died with the death of its sole ruler.
*fake laugh*
>>2175561
this has got to be the STUUUUPIDEST thing oive eva heard
>Islam is a destructive ideo-
>>2175116
So what has Islam done after the rise of the Ottoman Empire?
Why are the overwhelming majority of terrorist actions carried out by Muslims?
Why do they live as if it were still the 13th century? Do you think they want to relive the good ol' days of being intellectual KANGZ?
>>2175116
That may be, but most complaints are levied against the idolatry of modern groups such as the destruction of ancient sites by ISIS. It is important to remember the distinction shown in all cultures between extremists and militarists in comparison to those lucky enough to prosper in peacetime.
>>2175116
>Greek, Persian, and Indian science, mathematics, and philosophy translated into Arabic
>Islamic "science"
Why, historically, has there been so few female soldiers? Is it sexism?
Yes le evil patriarchy exclude women from the military to curb their special powers
>>2171956
Which one of you idiots did this?
>when the huns were invading hungary the knights would cry out 'there are HUNdreds of them
>that's why they're called the huns
cool historical facts thread?
i know one:
To non latin speakers the sound of the language of the tribes to the north sounded like "Bar Bar Bar" so they called them Barbarians
When the Romans were attempting to invade what is now Germany, their were so many of them that the Romans said that they were "Like germs, man." To this day, we call people from that region Germans.
Ancient Babylonians talked a lot, so people complained about how they'd "Babble on", hence the name Babylon. An alternative origin is that they had the first lawns, and as such "Baby lawns", although this etymology is disputed.
Japan didn't actually exist until the Chinese started to write about it. Before then it was underwater, and rose to the surface in a catastrophic volcanic event that historians refer to as "The Big Kablooie". The change is climate was directly responsible for the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
When winter fell, germans lost. This is why we have germs theory.
When US was fighting the bears in the wilderness, they tamed some. This was included in the constitutions as "right to bear arms"
ITT:people you used to think where the baddies before you got into history
>>2159951
Sean Connery is great
>>2159960
>>>/reddit/
Childhood is idolising the Byzantines.
Adulthood is realising the Ottomans made more sense.
What tribes/nations/empires were the worst human rights abusers in history?
Is it true the cruelty of the Mongols made the Nazis look like sentimental pussies?
Assyrians were the very first cruel empire and arguably worse than mongols.
>>2177179
Communist regimes of the USSR, PRC, DPRK.
>>2177285
This, Nazi Germany, the Khmer Rouge and 90s Yugoslavia. It was the 20th century, they should've known better.
Someone explain the "Holocaust was self-defense" line of thinking to me
I could see it if they were just killing jews who were commies but they were ovening random jew civilians too
Were Jews known for being big supporters of the NSDAP regime?
If you were fighting a total war against the entire world, would you be comfortable with letting millions of a tribalistic ethnoreligious group who had for the past two decades already vowed to destroy your government, organized international boycotts against your country, conducting sabotage against your industry, organized espionage cells, formed guerrilla units, and carried out assassinations against your officials, running around behind your lines?
>>2176274
Who the hell has ever claimed that? Holocaust wasn't self-defense, the nazis who claim Hitler was acting in self-defense probably deny holocaust happened altogether.
>>2176431
I think you *may* be conflating the actions of individuals with the goals of a group as a coherent whole.
Remember that many Jews were part of a wealthy middle class in Germany, and were basically content.
>ywn ride a NATO tank all the way to the very gates of Omsk and Norilsk
>ywn liberate Krasnoyarsk
>ywn die in a blaze of glory in the outskirts of Yakutsk
>ywalways live and die as a wagecuck
>>2175824
>ywn ride through a liberated Russian town and be kissed by a couple of Russian qt's
>there will never be a World in Conflict sequel
>ywn hack NORAD with a 1980s ZX Spectrum
GUYS PLS HELP
I'm a barely employed HS English teacher who is currently subbing. Tomorrow I beign teaching HS econ and history. Someone quit abruptly and they need a warm body.
I know almost nothing about the curriculum. I now that the History sections are currently finishing a unit on Progressivism and Econ classes are mid-unit on market structures.
This is all I have to go on. I start at 8am tomorrow.
Could anyone share games or somethign that they remember playing in HS econ or HS history? I'm basically just googling shit at the moment.
American?
Watch John Green videos lol
Explain why Communism failed in 10 words or less.
Perfect
Because Marx was a idiot and Lenin was a sociopath.
>>2175765
Marx based his theories on pre Darwinian Anthropology.
Why is the fact that most black slaves were enslaved by their fellow blacks in tribal warfare and raids completely ignored by common people?
The average American literally believes in this weird Kunta Kinta tier narrative where whites or Arabs were just marching into the jungles of Africa and catching blacks with butterfly nets, while in reality a vast majority of European slave traders just purchased the slaves in a port and transported them from A to B.
Slave trade was such a vital source of income for black African warlords that when the Brits banned slave trade, some of them like Oba Kosoko of Lagos even went to war with Britain.
Look up how many slaves were taken to the United States (specifically the US, not numbers for all of the Americas) since it was founded, and then look up how many slaves there are in India or Africa today.
>>2175753
how were the african slavers paid? gold?
>>2176005
Yes.