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>>3288099
The idea of a professional army.

>>3288099
Domestication of horses

the romans started to use the corvus in the first punic war, thus they introduced marines to warfare and ended punic hegemony over the seas

Because the rest of France was still there to defend it
Normandy was a French duchy, and William was vassal to the French king (which thus guarenteed mutual protection)

>>3288113
He just wouldn't let anyone know he was coming

Saxons confirmed shit at splitpush.

Oh, right after I made my post, I just came across a reference to the use of yellow-and-black livery in the early Reichspost under the Thurn und Taxis family... So there's that.

Civilization is a trap. We were meant to be hunter-gatheres. Google behavioral sink, watch the mouse utopia experiment.

Apex hunter gatherers.

I can only sleep well outside or in a tent, and I get skin rashes if I'm not in the sun for at least a couple hours a day.

t. Chad

>>3287998
>dat spooky picture
Is it japanese or tibetan?

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>>3287934
Also first time posting on /his/

>>3287934
IDK, you should try >>>/x/

>>3287895
CHADS

>>3287895
they liked to show off their people's athletic skills and abilities to show off to other countries.

>>3287895
its a celebration of strength and totalitarians use the physicalism of athletics to make a symbolic statement of what they want people to see them as. it also celebrates such virtues as (physical and self) discipline, subordination of one's personal will to the team or team leader, and also the idea that the professional athlete is the bearer of his nation's honor and values and so if responsible for upholding those in the arena of international competition.

"mythological creature"
"centaur"

pick one

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>>3287636
>Are mythological creatures like Centaurs a projection by man of what he wants but cannot be or have?
A centaur is an Ancient Greek's fictionalized personification of a "horseman", a raping nomadic savage who drags women off for their ritualized gangrape. Even Harry Potter had subtle references to the ravaging nature of the centaur, and you find references to this attribute about them all over their myths.

Like how they fictionalized Sarmatian female horse archers as "amazons", they're a kernel of truth wrapped around a shell of exaggeration, owing to the fact that all they knew about these lands and the people came from hearsay

>>3287636
>Are mythological creatures like Centaurs a projection by man of what he wants but cannot be or have?

NO; "MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES" WERE ACTUAL BEINGS; THE FACT THAT THEY CURRENTLY ARE EITHER EXTINCT, OR RARE, DOES NOT ENTAIL THAT THEY WERE FICTIONAL, OR METAPHORICAL.

>In other words, if all the coal and steel of France, Germany and England was in, say, Africa or South America, it would have been those other savages who would have transcended to civilization rather than the white Europeans?
Yes. If only Africa had abundant resources it would be utopia.

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If you can keep your head when all about you;
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too.
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster,
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make a heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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>a failed conquest of Mexico
>a failed rebellion in Japan
>a failed war against Germny

>>3287571
Every German born after 1871
/thread

Alcoholism was much worse back then than it is now.

they thought "ban alcohol", and it's a great idea. Use rate dropped, kill yourself you libertarian smear

>>3287490

This is honestly the historical event that puzzles me the most. How THE FUCK did politicians get enough support to ban beer?

>Hendrick Witbooi

>Germans proud of massacring civilians

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>>3287470
>completely one sided extermination of natives
>a war

>>3287380
>Anal virginity anyway

Yep, because he pennian virginity was taken by his mom (Angelina Jolie)

>>3287395
Do you mean penile? And did that actually happen in the movie?

>>3287380
No one is gayer than the greeks

It's a very long trip to this continent from Greenland, and the Norse found nothing of value here except lumber, so they wrote it off as worthless and didn't tell anyone else it existed

>boats weren't good enough to traverse the Atlantic ocean
Indeed anon, boats weren't even sophisticated enough to get to Sardinia until the 19th century

>>3287370
everything they ever told you in highschool is wrong by now
half-life of knowledge and all that

>>3287329
that's not charles II's wife pregnant Ann Frank

>>3287329
*dies of flu*
*catholic restoration collapses*

Why don't people in medieval paintings ever have eyebrows?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7tvauOJMHo

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>We can find bigotry and sexism everywhere perpetrated by white men
>We need to fight for a more progressive and open society