Does Christianity turn people into beta cucks, or do beta cucks just make good Christians?
>>2068254
The second option is more reasonable
>>2068254
>do beta cucks just make good Christians?
This one. Follow your leader.
>Christians
>cucks
It takes a real man to be a true Christian.
Why are Christcucks (as well as Muslims) so insistent that others should take up their religion?
The pagans certainly weren't like that.
>>2068203
We want you to survive.
Abrahamic religions are cancer of this world
>>2068209
My question is: why do you care? Why aren't you content with "saving" yourself, and whoever will come willingly? Because Abrahamics have often used force to convert or to retain, either soft or hard force, but force nonetheless.
Why are so many "cradles of civilization" shitholes now?
>>2068186
What do you consider a cradle of civilization?
And what do you consider a shithole?
China seems to be doing pretty well
A lot of things change in a couple thousand years
>>2068186
resources stripped, they got complacent in their first place status and failed to keep up
Japan claims they won a war against Russia. Are they telling the truth?
>>2068099
...yes? The Russo Japanese war? Seriously, is your Google broken?
Their aborted invasion of the USSR in WW2 was not very successful, though.
>>2068099
Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905
Not like beating the Russians is very difficult
Do you think art suffered or prospered when its focus shifted from primarily material to intellectual interpretation? Was this simply a natural progression of art itself?
>>2067870
Personally I regard postmodern art like this as a reactionary bandwagon by rich hipsters that is essentially bullshit, but what do I know.
Prove me wrong /his/ I want to be shown otherwise.
>>2067870
I think the issue is that old art is too easy to create with modern technology and the amount of people that have free time. So they need something to separate artists.
>>2067889
This is avant-garde anti-art and a precusor to Dada of the early 20th century, not postmodernism.
Basically it was a reactionary movement against war and modern society and was anti-bourgeois. So you're not that far off with the hipster thing desu.
I wouldn't consider it bullshit, as it did lead to surrealism and modernism and all that jazz. It started collage, photo montage, and assemblage art not to mention a lot of literary and poetic trends
What was life for women like in Ancient Rome?
How was marriage conducted?
give me your knowledge /his/
>>2067833
I'm asking more about patrician women rather than plebeians btw
when a mommy and a daddy love each other very much
>>2067835
You sat on your ass, and got fucked at night.
They were freer than Greek women, and could go outside without male escort
Has there ever been a president that just got high all day? Thats what i would do if I was president. Do they take piss tests and stuff to make sure not. Like even if they worried about the smell, they can just vape it. Obama probably smoked right?
Bill clinton
Smoke cigars and fuck 20 somethings every day, become forgotten within 100 years, lmao
Hope it was worth it.
Seeing as cannabis was used in medicinal tonics until the 20th century, probably a lot of presidents.
So I have a couple questions regarding this part of the world:
Firstly, in the pink, how did explorers know to sail that way to New Zealand? Is a larger part of expeditions trial and error? Do winds go towards land masses? In the circle of ocean I made, is it possible some one would have looked there for more land? I'm assuming Abos would have no clue of the Island(s)
And secondly in the Blue, why did the Brits set up the penal colony on the far side of Australia? Wouldn't that tack on i'm assuming at least 2 weeks sail, and wouldn't coastal habitats all be fairly consistent?
As for the pink, it was mostly a process of trial and error looking to find the southern continent (Antarctica) many geographers speculated existed, if you're talking about European explorers. The Polynesian ancestors of the Maori sailed to NZ from much further east in the Pacific.
The winds are generally motherly, although not directly noth-to-south. I've sailed in that area of the world and had upwind passages both to NZ from the islands and from the islands to NZ, but with some beating back and forth it's ok, never directly on the nose the whole time.
As for the blue, two things, climate and winds again. plus a lack of exploration . plus probably geopolitics. For one thing the climate in western Australia, and northwestern Oz in particular, is a miserable desert. Southeast is much more temperate, you can actually grow crops and live a European lifestyle. Plus there are no good big harbors in that region. They were making a penalty colony, but it was still supposed to be a colony, not just dumping convicts on a deserted beach and letting them starve to death. The trade wind sailing routes also work better going further south. Sailing time is NOT a direct correlation to shortest-line distance on the map. Also, much of the interior and northern reaches of Australia wevent even mapped in the earlier years. Finally, although this is speculation, that would be getting a bit close to the Dutch East Indies, and at least before the Napoleonic wars, Anglo Dutch naval and colonial tensions were always pretty high.
>>2068212
northerly, not motherly
>>2068212
The Maori sailed from the Cook Islands I believe, but yeah it mostly trial and error.
Due to the small amount of land in the pacific, constant expeditions for new land were a necessity for growth. Due to this, Polynesians developed a few methods of effective navigation.
This is mainly speculation, but I expect the most prominent method would have been observing bird migration. Obviously, if a bird takes off into a completely uncharted direction, that you know is surrounded by ocean, there HAS to be land there (some exceptions, but whatever). Secondly, large islands create their own weather, hence the Maori name for New Zealand, "Aotearoa" (Which means long white cloud). This phenomenon probably would have been obvious from some distance away.
Where do you think humans came from?
Do you subscribe to the "muh rocks and water mixed together to make cellular life" theory?
>>2067592
Yes, since thats the only plausible theory
>>2067606
What makes you think it is plausible and why are all the other theories implausible?
Is Sykes–Picot really the source of all the problems in the middle east?
Would the region be better/worse if the Western powers had just told the former subjects of the Ottomans they could do whatever they liked and left them alone?
um ottoman empire 2k17?
:^)
>>2067526
>Is Sykes–Picot really the source of all the problems in the middle east?
Yes
>Would the region be better/worse if the Western powers had just told the former subjects of the Ottomans they could do whatever they liked and left them alone?
That would have created even more instability and chaos.
They should kept their word with Faisal and supported the Arab nationalists in creating a national secular Arab state (that includes Palestine).
Kinda but most of those borders got nullified almost instantly after they were created cause of conflicts.
But the real problem stem's from the sunni muslim populations not having any centralized leadership like they used to under the Ottomans and their vassals or before that under the Khalipat. I mean, atleast the shiites have Iran and the guys sitting there pulling the strings but sunni's are a bit more decentralized.
Sure, you could argue that it was the Brits fault but the Ottoman empire was already dying and pan-arabism was on the growth.
But the real crime was when they helped the Saudi's gain the power and momentum they needed to remove Hashemite rule from Hejaz. That's when all the Arab nations were forced to answer to their degenracy instead while being forced to accept Wahabi doctrine.
ITT: Post historical figures and what boards they would have visited on this site
I'll start: /pol/ and /k/
>>2067513
/lit/, /k/, /his/, and /x/
/x/
>>2067513
/his/
Was killing Caesar a mistake?
It was for the dudes who killed him, including the ones who were too chicken shit to actually be involved, like Cicero.
They all died, and there was a monarch anyway, which was probably inevitable no matter what.
I mean, what would have happened if Caesar had lived? Caesarian becomes Emperor after Caesar dies, and is possibly overthrown by Republican factions?
Caesar has a legitimate heir who's too young to do anything and is overthrown by Caesarian/Marc Antony/Republicans/Octavian?
He returns the Republic to the people in his will?
>>2067467
Maybe the Senate could stop being self-serving pricks and help the common people so that there might be some uproar if Caesar destroyed them rather than almost every Roman adoring Caesar and hating the Senate?
>>2067467
*Caesarion
It was autocorrect, I swear
Does anyone else wish Czechland was a strong country?
>Important HRE thing that doesn't try to conquer the world and kill all the jews.
>stronk manufacturing.
>good tank and gun for army
>German and Slav mixture for extra flavor
Prussia is kind of gay compared to Bohemia desu.
Where did they go wrong?
>>2067403
>killing jews
>bad
>>>/reddit/
>>2067403
Bohemia and Hungary are definitely top two.
Of course, without the Curse if Turan Hungary wouldn't be as cool.
>instead of using resources to win the war lets build murder factories instead!
>>>/pol/
I dont wanna die, lads
We have nothing to fear but fear itself. And the world is full of fear. It's horrifying. Jesus Christ there's so much fear.
>>2067356
>Fri Dec 9 2016
>/his/ tries to be comforting
>>2067356
I ain't scared of nuffin!
>medieval people were so stupid they didn't understand the passage of time and would get totally lost if they the general area of their village
>peasants just went around naked all the time in summer because medieval people had no sense of ego
>nobody used non-roman roads until the 18th century, same with harbors
>nobody in Europe built brick/stone buildings for ten centuries
>claims Copernicus was killed by the inquisition (he died in bed after having a stroke)
>>2067214
This offends me greatly
>>2067214
are you memeing or is this book that bad? Because that's not just bad, that's like "literally making bullshit up as you go and never having read literally anything ever" bad.
>>2068370
Yeah it is that bad. Apparently he just sat around making up shit. According to a Amazon review:
>As his "Author's Note" reveals, at the age of 70 during a convalesence, he decided to write a "portrait" of the 16th Century as a backdrop to a study of Magellan. In roughly two years he churned out "AWLOBF," notwithstanding the fact that his background in the 16th Century was no more than "the general familiarity of an educated man." As a result, his efforts to deposit ink on paper yielded a work that has an uncanny resemblance to recently used toilet paper.
Wikipedia:
>Professional historians, however, have dismissed or ignored the book because of its numerous factual errors and its dependence on interpretations that have not been accepted by experts since the 1930s at the latest. In a review for Speculum, the journal of the Medieval Academy of America, Jeremy duQuesnay Adams remarked that Manchester’s work contained "some of the most gratuitous errors of fact and eccentricities of judgment this reviewer has read (or heard) in quite some time."[3] In particular, Adams pointed out that Manchester's claims about diet, clothing, and medieval people's views of time and their sense of self all ran counter to the conclusions of 20th-century historians of the Middle Ages. Manchester’s views on the transition from medieval to modern civilization, though they were popular in the 19th and early 20th century (and still are current in some segments of contemporary culture), have long been rejected by professional scholars in the relevant fields. Despite this, the book is often taught at the beginning of College Board's AP European History class.
>Despite this, the book is often taught at the beginning of College Board's AP European History class.