What are some experiences you're sad you missed out on, /his/?
For me it's not being one of the first Westerners to enter the newly opened up Japan in the 19th century.
Aside from its East Asian neighbors and the Dutch (and occasional castaways) it was a sealed country and no one knew what to expect from it. Plus witnessing the rapidity of the modernization would be fascinating.
>Tfw not on Commodore Perry's wild ride
>>2003769
that's a big ship
Not sure why ive always been infatuated wih westward expansion.
I could just imagine what it would have been like for the settlers to have seen the rockies for the first time.
Would have loved to have been one of the first settlers in the west
Yesterday this fuckin psycho die.
/his/ Thoughts.
not history
It's quite remarkable how all the media who calls him a "humanist" and "anti-imperialist" forget the support he gave to African dictators like Francisco Macias Nguema, Agostinho Neto and Mengistu who have killed hundreds of thousands. Including sending troops to Angola and Ethiopia.
Imagine of an American president sent troops to a country to help a regime that killed 500.000 people and starved millions. We wouldn't hear the end of leftists screaming about it. But right now, at least in Brazilian media, the worst thing people say about him is that he was "homophobic".
So are these commies extinct now?
*ambushes your legions*
MUH EAGLES
GIBT THEM BACK
Stop invading my homeland.
>>2003594
Rome fed him, It gave him a higher purpose and show him a better life, and what does he do.
Betrays her so he can live amongst trees and moss!
What class can the Habsurgs trace themselves to, where they always aristocracy, if not is it an example of how there was more social mobility in the Medieval Period than we think.
They go back to some sort of gentry family in present-day Switzerland. In general, Europe from the high middle ages through most of the early modern era had very little upward social mobility. There was enormous downward social mobility, however.
>>2003580
Were squires typically middleclassmen or just cadet branches of houses
>>2003947
Pretty sure squires were mostly young gentry and second, third, so on, born sons..
Let's say they knew how to travel on boats to other continents and they knew about the New World.
Would the Romans create a global world order?
>>2003471
No
They couldn't even reach india
>>2003471
Do you not think they sort of have created a global world order, in their own way?
The Roman legacy dominates western culture, which has been exported all across the world in one way or another.
>>2003471
Nah, even if everything was going great in the war against the natives the Romans would still have the problem that every fucking general styles himself emperor and tries to get his troops to dicksmash that other general who calls himself an emperor.
Romans are way to fond of civil war to get bigger than they were.
So a friend of mine has a scrapbook full of some pretty interesting personal photos of a currently unknown soldier. I have photos of hand written post cards and some photos of the soldier in question. Anyone know how to go
How to go about in identifying him? It would be cool to know who he his so we can figure out how my friend got the scrapbook.
>>2003244
What do you know of him apart from the photos? You would do best if you knew the guy's name and what unit he served in. If so, you can go to the German military archives and ask for documents related to this particular unit. You probably won't find photos though, at least whenever I researched in an archives I never saw any photos. Your best bet is to find out where he served, what rank he was promoted to, if any, and and if he received any medals, such events will be recorded in the documents.
Here's one of the post cards for someone who can read handwritten German.
>>2003211
I was the greatest
Bow down to me, plebeian
>>2003211
Timesithius was better, desu
Poor kid...
Quick reminder that the proletariat knows no nations.
>>2003129
Godspeed,comrade!
>>2003129
>>2003360
Both nazis and commies need to kill themselves.
>>2003129
>proletariat
>2016
>implying there is still a proletariat in the post modern western world.
>implying you ever worked in a factory
>implying you are not some edgelord studying some crap liberal arts
Was German unification a mistake? They are constantly pushing Europe into chaos.
yes
>>2000000
>>2003064
They were doing that before too.
Something awakens in the German that drives it to destroy all Western Civilization
Try again, slavshit.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewbender/2016/01/25/the-worlds-20-best-nations-announced-germany-is-no-1-u-s-no-4/#13efd8a661a3
NR.1
>empiricism
>atomism
jfc
>Forms
>spooks
Tell me about American rule in these islands.
It was glorious.
>>2003026
There's a saying in the Philippines "What Spain failed to do in 300 years, America accomplished in 50." The matter being discussed being modernization.
Which, to be fair, buys way too much into the black legend, propagated by WASPs and Philippine Nationalists, since Spain DID try- the Liberals in particular wanted to improve Spain's remaining colonies- unfortunately 3 Carlist Wars and a Conservative Government later, modernization was halted, sparking the anger of Filipinos and also Cubans, who saw themselves as proper Spanish subjects now pissed off at the center's continued marginalization of them.
"Colonialism was a mistake"
foreignpolicy.com/2016/09/02/did-chinese-civilization-come-from-ancient-egypt-archeological-debate-at-heart-of-china-national-identity
>W E W U Z
But memes aside, is this a plausible theory? Besides the artifacts and the writings found, the nature of ancient Chinese language and hieroglyphics are similar, in that both heavily rely on visual imagery to determine the meaning of a particular character. Architecture seems to be vastly different, but apparently China also had pyramids as tombs for the royalty? I'm not much of an ancient China/Egypt buff, so any insights are appreciated
>>2002967
well it's plausible asians immigrated from the middle east, but that's dumb as shit. They cultures more or less developed sepretly. They had a desert and mountains to cut each other off and no government was strong enough to cut through that veil for a long time.
Also pictography isn't that complex of a writing system. It developed independently in america, why not asia as well as egypt?
Also Egypt is just a meme of sumerian and middle eastern culture.
Praise Gilgamesh
>>2002967
Jeez. No, that's idiotic. We know how both writing systems developed, the origins of both civilizations are well-documented by archaeologists, this is some Ancient Aliens-tier stuff.
>>2003006
Idiot, people from Greece reached Egypt by fucking boat you dumb fuck, you think people can't overcome the fucking Mountains when They can fucking deal with the open sea
Karl Marx was a NEET who never did a day of actual work in his life, and spent all of his time mooching off of his more successful friends or publishing opinion pieces in magazines. He was basically the Anita Sarkeesian of his day, and his grasp of economic principles was woefully, WOEFULLY inadequate.
He unironically defended the Labor Theory of Value, which is sort of like the Young Earth Creationism of economics, and the model of society that he outlined in the Communist Manifesto, to be frank, did not work. Following the Ten Planks of Communism does not result in a socialist utopia, it results in a failed state.
So by depicting communist societies as being desolate shitholes because the ideas of Marx weren't ever properly implemented is actually an flattery, because it implies that the problems with Marxism are rooted in corruption rather than Marx's own ineptitude as a political and economic theorist.
>Discuss
>>2002853
What are you talking about? He was in the perfect position to write about capitalists. He was very familiar with how capitalists "earned" their money, but was not a capitalist himself and therefore would not be a class traitor. One could say, having seen first hand how capitalists got their money, and how horrible it would be to have to work for a capitalist, he was so fucking salty about capitalists, he wrote a book about how salty he was about capitalists.
Why is Marx still taken seriously? This isn't the 19th century, the age of the operator-owner is long dead - for almost all corporations the people who actually exercise control are the managers, not the shareholders
>>2002921
Marx is irrelevant to economics, but is a powerhouse in sociology, and history
Happy Birthday you beautiful bastard
>He killed that commie cuck to celebrate his birthday.
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>>2002721
I'M ALREADY TIRED OF WINNING!
Has there ever been a bigger mistake?
>>2002657
More successful than fascism desu. But Leninism was still a mistake.
Democracy
Some people just shouldn't have a say
>>2002660
It's all horrible.
The most successful communist state is what, Cuba?