>US history courses hype up the 1860 election as Lincoln versus Douglas
>Douglas gets FOURTH in the Electoral College
JUST
>>2001557
Damn...when was the last time we didn't live in a 2 party system and everyone actually participated in politics meaningfully?
>>2001756
Y'all need preferential voting so you're able to vote 3rd party without wasting your vote.
>>2001557
Electoral college is retarded desu
Also it was more about how the debates forced Lincoln into taking a harder stance against slavery than he normally would've and becoming more known for that position than any other position he had.
What should Britain have done instead, or how should it have approached the situation differently to prevent this and save France earlier?
Was it even possible for Britain to stop Germany defeating France or would staying and fighting have only destroyed both nations instead of one?
Shouldn't have pussied out at Munich.
They did stay, thats why they were btfo so hard hitler had to tell his armored divisions to sit still for 3 days so the brits could evacuate, thinking the perfidious brits will take this as a merciful hitler and sign peace they instead took the opportunity and holed up on their island and waited for america to come into the picture so they can crawl out of their bomb shelters and firebomb german civilians.
>>2001543
This plus the Brits didn't actually give a fuck about France other than being worried about having a nazi controlled nation so close by.
Are great men a product of the society they live in.
Is this the reason there aren't any to find or rise in democracies?
I'm pretty sure democracies have produced a large number of great men.
>>2001276
>Is this the reason there aren't any to find or rise in democracies?
Who the fuck do you think Trump is? He is single handily destroying modern PC culture and will bring back the American dream. He did this, of off the back of his own vision and was able to mobilise a populace no one thought possible.
t. Not Americunt.
>>2001279
Compare that to the scale of what Alexander achieved and they look puny in comparisson
What went wrong?
>>2001144
plebs.
>>2001144
I imagine they needed shows that appealed to a less educated crowd. For along time they had really quality shows, but slowly those fell out to more dramatic and reality tv shows that are shoehorned into the History genre because some of the shit in that show might be from the 1950's
What went wrong
Was he justified in his actions, and most importantly, is he /ourguy/?
/ourguy/?
/his/ is probably one of the most divided boards on 4chan that I can think of
>>2001030
No we're not.
>>2001035
son of a bitch
What will humanity do about the poor infrastructure hyper-crisis?
>modern buildings can barely last 50 years, a SHITLOAD of maintenance is required to prevent everything from falling apart, when maintenance is ignored problems cascade and increase exponentially, maintenance is severely underfunded
>in places like China buildings are built with a 25-35 year lifespan in mind
>cheap modern building materials degrade quickly from moisture, UV rays, heat expansion/contraction
>without an HVAC system most buildings will fall apart quickly
>massive post-WW2 infrastructure expansion is now falling apart, governments are broke and unable to fund repairs
>toxic building materials, petrochemicals in almost every modern building, asbestos is still in everything built before 1970, demolition is a massive public health hazard
>ex: the world trade center was borderline condemned in 1989 despite only being built in 1973, was conveniently knocked down when Halliburton was responsible for removing the asbestos, which would have cost billions
>ex2: rapid condo construction in Toronto is producing pure garbage, buildings are falling apart a few years after construction
>ex3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_condo_crisis
If a modern nation like Canada with tons of building codes and standards is constructing pure SHIT, I wonder what goes on in places like China.
Roman construction: still standing 2000 years later
>>2001031
Completely useless and a massive waste of space.
>>2001017
You have to tear the cities down.
PROTIP: It's cheaper to build newer efficient cities with modern technology than it is to maintain older failing cities.
That being said. The twin towers came down with relatively no damage to the surrounding area. Only the targets and most adjacent damages were destroyed beyond repair, and this was an attack.
If you want to take it down you can.
>>2001017
>I wonder what goes on in places like China.
http://blog.asiantown.net/-/1756/Bridge-Made-of-Rubbish-Collapses-in-Shanghai--China
Do you think that the Minoans were much more happier than we westerners are today?
>>2000901
Every society has it's own rebels. It's anachronistic to apply our modern mindset to their's though.
>visible titties every day
yeah they were happy
>>2001207
Public fapping must have been a huge issue.
What historical event would make a GOAT movie?
>>2000852
The 2016 US Presidential elections
>>2000855
True
>>2000852
Gallipoli
Here's how mericans see WW1
http://www.shmoop.com/wwi/timeline.html
Notice how they they think WW1 started when Germany attacked Belgium (while Russia and France had already been involved) because they just can't stop overrating Brits and making everything about them
>Anglophone country concentrates on the Anglo part of the war
no shit
>>2000792
Are you really trying to find excuses for this shitshow?
Leaving the First Marne, Tannenberg, Verdun and the Somme out while including Cantigny
>>2000783
>3/4 is about the last months and some irrelevant battles where americans are present
>not even any mention of Marne, Somme, Verdun and so on
>WW1 was exclusevly fought at the western front
Damn, even if you take a very american centric POV in account, thats just bad.
>Lenin dies
>Hey what do we do now?
>Let's kill EVERYONE but three people in Lenin's general staff, all the old Bolshevics, a few dozen Red Army Generals and half of the Red Army Officer corps senpai
What was his fucking problem?
Everyone in the bolshevik party was from the wealthier parts of society (even lower middle class), intelligentsia and the like. Stalin was actual, dirt fucking poor slavshit. And everybody disliked Stalin for it.
Killing everyone has always been the commie way to prevent everyone from knowing how shit things used to be before the triggering event in question.
>>2000165
Now that I think about it, the original actually looks more shopped than the shop.
The guy on the right looks much sharper than the surrounding, as if he was cut in.
When did pedophilia become socially unacceptable/taboo?
Man-boy love, while technically illegal, was still romanticized (and practiced) in Britain during the Victorian era through WW1.
But the British have always been poofs, haven't they?
>>1999676
Not historically.
Pedophilia (or atleast pseudo-pedophilia aka having sex with a young boys thighs without actual penetration ) was widely practiced by the Romans and therefor spread across a large chunk of the world. The "Vandals" who are often characterized as barbarians were at the time devout Christians due to people like "Ulfias apostle of the goths; as proceeded to (pun intended) wreck Rome's shaved little ass. Conquereing former roman territiory and then replacing the governing bodies by those who they deemed to be more moral or just by christian standards - there for changing the culture in the conquered areas. This was the first major change (IN THE WEST) away from sexual degeneracy involving children.
>>1999676
>But the British have always been poofs, haven't they?
Technically, yes.
So what was the actual cause of the civil war? Because I hear a lot of conflicting opinions on the matter.
>>1999329
It has to do with alcohol. It almost always is, in one way or another
secession of the southern states
what was the cause of the secession?
slavery
Southern autism
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. Which one of them had the biggest impact on the world? Who is your favourite? What is their most profound works in your opinion?
Probably Aristotle considering how long his thought has dominated philosophy and how it's even making a resurgence. He's also my favorite so I'm biased.
>>1999267
resurgence where?
>Socrates
>works
Delete your own thread and spare yourself the embarrassment.
How in the history of civilization did the concept of monarchy remain almost unchanged until the American/Jacobian revolutions began spreading populism? It stagnates a culture and creates a monopoly on power that would have likely pissed off at least one sizable peasant revolt to the point of successful government upheaval.
Was life really just not that bad?
Was it a problem with not having communication/education among a large segment of the populous?
Did capital punishment and torture have a better deterrent effect in these eras than it does in the modern world?
people are cucks who demand to be cucked
>It stagnates a culture
because that's a bad thing, right?
oh wait. maybe a stagnant culture is better than the other option... no national culture. like we see in 2016
>>1998942
the peasants, the lower class, were always cntent as long as they got food, and were not educated enough to know anything better.
The middle class was usually educated enough, but wasn't big enough to pose a threath.
Only when the middle class reached a critical mass, a replacement of the old order was possible.
Why do people keep making bronze statues when they all turn disgustingly green as the time passes?
>>1997896
Bronze green is the shit, nigga, what do you mean digusting?
>>1997896
Because turning green is all they do. We have far more artifacts from the Bronze Age than from the Iron Age because bronze can last forever.
>>1997896
*as time passes