Which society had the most brutal punishment for theft of property?
>>2001479
Ancient Egypt was pretty brutal
>Those convicted were subject to corporal punishment, such as mutilation, flogging, penal servitude or death by staking.
>>2001513
Sounds based as fuck.
Some bastards stole my laptop, a pity they won't face this fate.
>>2001479
Pic?
Is it part of legit American History?
It kind of put a damper on the 60s.
The lesson here being that California ruins things for everyone.
wouldve been better if they never found out who done it desu would make for a better story
>>2001527
What??
How do you call the study of how language/words changed over time, like, there was a word with the meaning X, and after some time a new word replaced this word, still meaning X? Or how the word with the meaning X changed it's meaning to Y?
>>2001232
Philology and Historical linguistics are the study of language change and the history of languages. The latter is more old fashioned and closely related to literary criticism. Involves the very close reading of few ancient texts; like one guy who study the changes of a few words found in Anglo-Saxon texts. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were philologists. Historical linguistics is a more modern and (hopefully) more scientific approach the the linguistic past that evolved out of philology.
>>2001232
Etymology?
>>2001371
OP here: I meant the exact branch of linguistics. There are so many of them that it would be hard to look for the info myself, and I need it fast.
So, anyone knows the name of the exact branch of linguistics that deals with language changing words and their meanings over time?
>muh substance
Has there ever been a fatter, more pendantic, more tedious philosopher than Thomas Akikenas?
>>2000500
Your mom
>muh substance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar
"when the Holy Land was lost"
ITT: explain in one sentance or less the knights templar and the results of the Crusades
OR
Just a crusades thread in general!
temple jews and deus vult niggers kicked out of their containment states
>>2000375
The Knights Templar could not hold onto the Kingdom of Jerusalem because incredible funds could not amend terrible understaffment.
Were the cynics the fedora-tippers of their time?
No
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZswD12OdW4
inb4 Wisecrack
>>2000265
No.
All philosophers were in general.
>man is a chicken, stop denying this fedora tippers
Would the Middle East be more stable if WWI had never happened?
Probably.
>>2000083
No
muslims gonna muslim
yes, the Ottoman empire would have remained intact and the world would be a better place today thanks to imperialism
So what exactly did mathematics in antiquity work? How did their formulas look like? Did they use greatly different number systems?
Like Greeks for example. How would Pythagoras and Archimedes do their work?
They used a lot of trail and error
>>2000023
>trail
Is this a meme or youre just stupid?
>inb4 autocorrect
>>2000021
mathematics only became as symbolic as it is now just recently within the last couple of hundred years due to developments in pure mathematics like set theory, metamathematics, etc. due to frege, russell, and even some mathematicians/logicians before them. for example f(x)=y notation is attributed to euler, as are a bunch of other notations. afaik, before the developments, mathematicians used to write stuff down like "the product of three and the sum of seven and x is equal to 290"
What are some good books on the fall of rome?
Im writing a fairly big report next year for my degree, its meant to focus on signifcicance of long term vs short term causes, and i feel i could do with some extra learning material before i even start.
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire - Gibbon
>>1999926
>The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
Please correct me if im wrong, but shouldn't a more recent book be used for a university paper?
The Fall of the Roman Empire: a New History of Rome and the Barbarians and Empires and Barbarians: Migration, Development and the Birth of Europe by Peter Heather are quite good. The first one focuses on Roman history and reasons it's eventual failure in the west and the second - on the history of "barbarian" Europe from 1st century AD till Slavic expansion in 7th century, with very interesting analysis of migrational processes. The Restoration of Rome : Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders is a nice follow up about Justinian, Charlemagne and the Papacy.
>>1999937
This meme needs to die.
Why did ancient Egyptians worship cats?
Because they are our supreme overlords.
They are useful (rodents) and cute.
>not being a catfag
Let's play a game /his/, and see how well you know your history.
Post an important event that happened no more than 25 years before the event in the post above yours (and include the date). Let's see how far we get.
I'll start.
2016: Election of Donald Trump
1991 - Desert Storm
Chernobyl 1986
1969 - Man arrives at Moon
Why aren't historians this based anymore?
"The empire of Darius lasted hardly a century. The moral as well as the physical backbone of Persia was broken by Marathon, Salamis and Plataea; the emperors exchanged Mars for Venus, and the nation descended into corruption and apathy.
The decline of Persia anticipated almost in detail the decline of Rome: immorality and degeneration among the people accompanied violence and negligence on the throne. The Persians, like the Medes before them, passed from stoicism to epicureanism in a few generations. Eating became the principal occupation of the aristocracy: these men who had once made it a rule to eat but once a day now interpreted the rule to allow them one meal—prolonged from noon to night; they stocked their larders with a thousand delicacies, and often served entire animals to their guests; they stuffed themselves with rich rare meats, and spent their genius upon new sauces and desserts.
A corrupt and corrupting multitude of menials filled the houses of the wealthy, while drunkenness became the common vice of every class.140b Cyrus and Darius created Persia, Xerxes inherited it, his successors destroyed it."
>muh degeneracy
Is Will Durant our guy?
>>1999385
Because rich people today are mostly rich from capitalism and not from blood. The former don't get their children into being scholars. They also don't have that many children to begin with, so that they can afford to have one of them go into academia. Now you have historians from filth background, that don't have an aristocratic culture to imitate.
I saw these ruins on a random commercial can someone identify them for me?
>>1999148
here are another set of ruins, not sure if they are the same or from another site.
Bump for interest
Lets talk about that
>>1998917
Whar was rhe political situation in Somalia after the creation of the Transnational Somali goverment?
Why is somalia even allowed to exist? It literally only functions off piracy.
>>1998917
It was bloody, but it should have been left alone. When foreign governments intervened, they invited all kinds of resistance groups and jihadists to bring their hatred of the West to Somalia. The West did not mean for that to happen... they just wanted to stop the slaughter of civilian populations.
>>1998919
It took much of the country back at first. They moved their capital a couple times, if memory recalls, in order to centralize the nation better. Islamic resistance lost its unity and broke apart. This made several dangerous factions that both fought the Somali government and itself. One of these little shit-shows is now Al-Shabaab. 2008 got really bad for the government and the West lost faith in it as corruption became so rampant that lenders refused to aid the Transitional Government. It doomed Somalia horribly and made the current, Federal Government have a poor starting position among both the people of Somalia and the world community abroad. Much like this >>1999024 anon says, Somalia has almost no infrastructure to speak of after its civil war and Islamic terror wars.
>>1999024
It's allowed to exist because nobody else will take it. You think Ethiopia wants to take on millions of starving, extremist Muslims? How about Kenya? It's mainly a large badland area that has several self-governing groups who happen to all be called "Somalia"
Here is a good map from last year on Somalia. It's gotten worse now actually
>Any woman you see in a Spanish Civil War photograph was probably raped, publicly humiliated, and forced into prostitution after the Nationalists won
>>1998759
Republican woman*
>>1998759
Nationalists weren't as brutal as anarchists, trotskists and Leninists.
>>1998759
Did Republican women hold down priests and ruined their vows by raping them?