Is art "real"?
Are memes real?
How Can Art Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real
>>1867086
Am I real..?
During the existence of the Soviet Union, was there any powerful woman among the ranks of the Comunist party (or any other organization)?
also: is catharina the Great the most powerful Russian woman ever?
Elizabeth was equally powerful
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekaterina_Furtseva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Krupskaya
Idk about Soviet Russia but my grandfather was with the Yugoslav partisans and before he died he told me a story about how his 19 year old female cousin was given full judge jury and executioner powers when dealing with deserters because she was the only one in her village who finished high school. So you basically had a 19 year old farm girl walking around during ww ii in the Dalmatian Highlands having full power to decide how to deal with deserters. Pretty interesting I guess.
What are some /his/ approved movies.
>>1867053
In terms of accuracy or entertainment? Because there isn't a single non-documentary film that is accurate
>>1867053
>Balto
>Dances With Wolves
>Unbroken
>Man in The High Castle
>Mask of Zoro
>Wild Wild West
>Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
>An American Tail: Fieval Goes West
>Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows
>Van Hellsing
>Gladiator
>Disney's Mulan
>Disney's Alladin
>Disney's Pochahantas
>Hellstorm
>House of Flying Daggers
>True Grit
>Machete 2
>Spy Kids
>>1867053
The birth of a nation (the old one)
Was Mansa Musa real?
>>1867029
*Wuz Mansa Musa real
Fixed
>>1867029
Yes obviously. He's one of the greatest white kings in history.
WE
>you will never live in Minoan Crete
>you will never live in ancient Babylon
Fe
>>1866976
>you will never brutally destroy the Minoans, Hittites, Mitanni, Mycenaens, various large city states, and cause the Middle Kingdom of Egypt to fail
>>1866976
>all those wallless and windowless buildings
What did they do when it rained? Is that an accurate reconstruction of Cretan buildings? Seems like a featherless dinosaur.
>>1867019
I think it's just in that specific picture. They had normal buildings.
How could the Roman populous enjoy watching men kill eachother?
People were just edgier back then.
>>1866905
I'd watch it too if I didn't have movies, television, music, newspaper/literacy, etc. Romans were bored as shit
Umm you know how much money I would pay to see gladiators kill eachother? A fuck ton
Did anyone else legit believe the Egyptians were black as a kid?
I'm not a nigger, so no.
>>1866885
What do modern egyptians think of black people appropriating their culture?
>>1866886
im white and thought anyone who lived in africa was black
>watching the humanities commit suicide via postmodern autoerotic asphyxiation
feels good man
There are only three reasons to go to university: mathematics, science, technology.
Everything else is wasting time.
>>1866860
maybe if you're a poorfag with no connections that only views university as a way to get a non minimum wage tier job
tfw medicine
We all know nobody or everybody are the "bad guys" in war, but there are exceptions and I'm looking for them.
Post wars and battles where one side was objectively just and right, while the other seemed to be operating out of pure malice without reason and has no defensible qualities.
Examples:
Irish War of Independence (Good = Irish, Bad = UK)
Siege of Khartoum (Good = Gordon, Bad = Mahdists)
This should be easy with how many conflicts muslims and Ottomans were involved with.
>>1866810
American War of Independence (Britain: good, 13 Colonies: literally ISIS)
Ottomans = pure and good
Serbs = hellspawns
Good = The citizen army defender of Liberty
Bad = Corrupt monarchies that attacked them to restore the old order
Is anyone here able to explain what led up to the crusades for me? I'm talking with someone about them and would like to know more. Thank you in advance.
And the picture is my friend trying to compare the crusades to something else
>>1866632
>Muslims took a lot of land
>they were being typical Muslim assholes, imposing bullshit Arab laws
>people going to the Holy Land were getting bullied
>Byzantines are also scared of Muslims and are looking for anything to help them from being BTFO
>pope says "prove your Christianity by killing Muslims"
>France says yes
>bunch of dukes get some armies together
>Byzantines say "We'll scratch your back if you scratch ours. Use us to launch the invasion and we'll support you with our armies if we get some of our lost land back."
>Crusaders launch from Byzantine land
>start fighting
>Byzantines immediately puss out and start trying to cut deals with the Turks using the crusades as a bargaining chip
>Crusaders wreck shit anyway
>tell the Byzantines to go fuck themselves
>create their own kingdom
>defend it for a long time
>Muslims eventually get their shit together
>take the land back piece by piece
Justified and rational response against Byzantine aggression against the muslims.
The conquest of Iberia was just a fluke that turned into 700 years of spanish progress and science by the native moorish people.
Did Southeast Asian kingdoms have unique armor or weapons? Was gonna ask in the Southeast Asian thread but its ded.
>>1866583
Lots of crazy knives both for killing and clearing foliage
Majapahit had some crazy shit. Too bad the Mudslime destroyed it.
>>1866583
Save for Vietnam: yes.
>Scientists were able to trace the remarkable journey made by intrepid ancient humans by sifting through clues left in the DNA of modern populations in Australia and Papua New Guinea. The analysis shows that their ancestors were probably the first humans to cross an ocean, and reveals evidence of prehistoric liaisons with an unknown hominin cousin.
>Prof Eske Willerslev, an evolutionary geneticist who led the work at the University of Copenhagen, said: “This story has been missing for a long time in science. Now we know their relatives are the guys who were the first real human explorers. Our ancestors were sitting being kind of scared of the world while they set out on this exceptional journey across Asia and across the sea.”
>Willerslev’s findings, based on a new population analysis of 83 Indigenous Australians and 25 Papuans, shows that these groups can trace their origins back to the very first arrivals on the continent about 50,000 years ago and that they remained almost entirely isolated until around 4,000 years ago. “They are probably the oldest group in the world that you can link to one particular place,” said Willerslev.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/21/indigenous-australians-most-ancient-civilisation-on-earth-dna-study-confirms
Australians are so based and the purest race too
G-d bless these noble noongas and their rich culture and music that has been passed down since time and memorial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBIubgsfK8E&t=1m40s
Jesus fucking christ they literally look like trolls.
Also, reminder that abbos are genetically closer to eurasians than they are to africans.
He did nothing wrong
>>1866513
Who dat?
>>1866513
Who dat?
>>1866513
>white
>A team of three French commandos from the Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN) arrived in Mecca. Because of the prohibition against non-Muslims entering the holy city, they converted to Islam in a brief, formal ceremony.
Why are Muslims so autistic?
>autism
>making sure people of the formal religion enters the Holy city
Next you are gonna tell me the Pope kissed a qoran or licked the feet of a muslim.
>>1866512
Did they convert back or are they still muslims?
>>1866552
>implying the conversion was anything but token
Is Taoism the ultimate NEET philosophy?
>>1866499
Buddhism/daoism is literally autism the religion. Enlightenment is essentially a form of extreme autism
>>1866518
this board is so shit
>>1866518
Buddhism and taoism endgames are completly different though.