What was the last historical book you read, /his/?
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>>2056663
I love that series. I read that one and the on on the french revolution. I think they give a very nice and detailed overview of what happened. For a good study you should obviously look at some primary and maybe more detailed sources. But I love them.
Idk if Thomas Paine's Common Sense counts, but that was the last historical book (pamphlet) I read.
>>2056663
Same, along with Henry Heller's book on the French Revolution.
Currently reading this.
Even if it is abridged, I didn't expect it to be a tough read. So far, I've learned:
>Rome was a republic after ousting its last king
>one day the nobles and statesmen became too powerful, crisis inbound
>Julius Caesar stepped in to be dictator of the Republic, was assassinated
>his adopted son Augustus reigns
>most of the Emperors in the Julio-Claudian dynasty were pretty bad dudes
>Hadrian builds a wall in Britain, makes Rome great again
>the last few emperors right before Commodus came in to play were great
>after Commodus was assassinated, the Roman Empire began to truly decline
Its a long read, as I'm reading several other books at the same time, but its rewarding and informative.
Let's talk about Crime and Punishment. Do you think the majority of criminals choose to commit crimes or are put into tough situations that force them to commit crimes?
I myself am a convicted felon, though you wouldn't know it if you had met me. My mother and father were illiterate and by the time I was 13 I was homeless and living on the streets of Miami and spending time in and out of jail, fending for myself. I didn't learn how to read or write until I was 17. My mother was (is) a crack head and my father was murdered when I was 10 in front of our apartment complex over a $20 dice game. That said, I still hold myself accountable for my own actions and once I started doing that I was able to get my life turned around.
Because of all this, I'm curious as to what /his/ thinks about crime and punishment.
Can't we just kill all of the criminals?
That would end all the crimes.
Most criminals choose to commit crimes because it gives them status in their sociteties, and therefore, more access to women.
The best way to fight crime is by restricting female sexuality.
>>2056658
When I was living on my friends couch and robbing taxi cabs I was not thinking about pussy or status.
But I do see what you are saying. However I don't think that's the case at all.
I'm sorry but what the hell is Prussia? Why is it important or interesting? To me, it just seems like another failed german experiment. Okay there were some scientists and inventors born here but that's it. Honestly, even pharaohs feel more relevant than this empire(?). Can an autistic germanboo explain this to me?
>>2056602
Isn't bait tbqh. I haven't studied anything about Prussia in my life and wikipedia is even more mindbogglingly dull than usual on this subject.
>>2056584
It's pure memetic autism that dragged the world in a world war
What's your argument against the based Austrian school of economics?
>>2056562
Empirical evidence
Capitalism is historical dead end.
>>2056567
buuuurn, nice anon, that was painful for op
He was a politician that implemented the mercantilism in Portugal.
>>2056518
t. alberto barbosa
>Marquis
Who cares.Guillotine.
>X Dictator is bad because 20 000 000 000 000 bilion people died under his rule
Why is it even an argument? X dictator won, that is only thing that matters.
Well, in the long term, most dictators lose, in the sense that their countries follow paths divergent with their desires.
Modern Russia is very different from what Stalin intended, and the same is true for Chile and Pinochet, Franco and Spain etc.
What dictator has actually won in the sense that his country is still following the rules that he would have desired? I can't think of none right now.
>>2056486
Napoleon, more or less.
>>2056459
>Why
>won
>matters
sophomoric
Okay, redpill me on the sacking Constantinople on a pilgrimage to save Christianity.
>Who wants to fuck shit up and do gangsta shit for baby Jesus
>YEAH
>Who wants to fight proper battles and settle deserts full of and surrounded by hostile Muslims.
>Eh . . .
What happened on every crusade ever.
>>2056371
The Greeks were massacring innocent Christian pilgrims
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Latins
blame the maritime jew
Are Turks Mongols?
>>2056345
Yes
>>2056345
No, Turks in turkey have no relations to mongols.
Turks in turkey are turkic only in language. n terms of genetics they are not turkic or negligibly turkic.
>>2056498
Turks originally come from Mongolia
Can anybody redpill me on the Achaemenid Empire? I don't remember much of what I learned about them from my early college courses, although I do recall they were uniquely progressive for their time.
>>2056310
youre misusing the term redpill it doesnt mean what you think it means
>>2056310
DAAAAAAAAA JOOOOOOOOOOZ DEEEEEEEEEEEEEED EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET
There, you have now just been redpilled, not only on the Achaemenids, but on everything ever. You can now go back to /pol/ and never have to think again.
Would someone else come up with the same ideas If he had never existed?
>>2056251
Yes, because of historical determenism.
>>2056251
What he said wasn't new.
>>2056274
This, it just wasn't popular. Marx just decided to say fuck it and publish it.
How do I live a life of virtue? It seems like whenever I try to overcome a moral flaw, I feel worse off and gain no benefit and no one else seems to notice or care.
>>2056223
This is why religion is essential for the maintenance of a virtuous life. There is no point to lead such a life without a belief in it reaping something greater for the soul. It just so happens to be that most of the laws in the West are conducive to leading a moral life, but there are still a number of matters left for the individual to decide.
To give an example, if I did not fear for my soul and incurring the displeasure of God, I'd be much more of a debauched man. Besides the obvious repercussions which can be avoided with the appropriate precautions, I would see no reason to keep from sticking my penis in anything that would spread its legs for me. Although I realize what a waste of time and energy it would be, reason does not suffice to grant one's will the strength it needs to resist such alluring traps (take the pun if you like it). God gives man not only a reason to live, but a reason to live virtuously.
Some people are born with virtue, other doesn't. You can't lead life of virtue like you can't lead life of being genius without acutally being one.
>>2056223
Just keep doing it. There is no shortcut in morality, it takes effort to live well but it gets easier and easier the longer you do it.
>>2056165
Turned China into an economic powerhouse and America into a nation of effeminate clerks.
Obligatory /pol/ is right post.
>>2056744
>powerhouse
>ready to collapse anyday
China's a paper tiger like they've been since the beginning of western contact
>>2056165
Nixon was far left of our current politicians. That is his legacy: he offended the real power brokers with the EPA and the clean air & water acts.
We are no longer allowed to have nice things. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at our door instead we have regressivists like (((Trump))) rolling us back to 18th century economic policies.
What would the world look like today if Judaism and thus Christianity and Islam were never invented?
Like U.S.A. wanted!
Rome would still be around and we'd be on Mars.
>>2056156
Differently.
Why did Japan decide to fight the USA? Was America right in imposing embargoes on Japan?
>>2056069
Why are you trying so hard to moralize history?
>>2056080
Just trying to understand motivations
>>2056069
>Why did Japan decide to fight the USA?
Japan was trying to become a world power and did this by expanding eventually taking the colonies of South East Asia, including Singapore, Indochina, Dutch E. Indies, etc. This threatened US interests in the region, which lead to an economic embargo by the US against the Japanese. The United States froze all Japanese assets in the US and slapped an embargo on exports to Japan, among other things. Although the Japanese did pursue legitimate diplomatic means of resolving the tension throughout this time, part of this southern strategy was to take over the Philippines, which were essentially a ward state under the United States.
In November of 1941, the Japanese agreed that if negotiations failed, they would go to war with the United States. To do so, they would have to contend with Pearl Harbor, which had a significant buildup of US naval forces. The Roosevelt Administration was focused on Europe, and essentially rebuffed the Japanese's negotiations. The Japanese then decided to attack Pearl Harbor, preemptively, which would theoretically disable the US fleet enough for them to continue their southern strategy.
Japan needed oil to continue growing as a superpower and also only 5% of Japan is flat enough to hold arable land (land you can farm).
After a good and proper CK2 game I realized that I know jackshit about my favourite pagans. The Slavic faith.
Tell me all I would need to know about the Slavic pagan faith. Pantheons, the dopest gods, ways of worship and etc etc, fun facts if you will!
they were close to being monotheistic and had the Trinity thing well figured out
Their symbols are good, but we barely know what was their faith was all about.
>>2056200
>Barely know what their faith was all about
That's a shame ;s