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Were there any other types of cities or structures built on an Island or anything similar in concept to the Tenochtitilan?
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>>1865319
... Venice?
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fuck the spanish. we could still have this.
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>>1865397
The lake would be a cesspool today after industrialization -- it was probay for the best.
What was his fucking problem?
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>>1865211
>"I have access to SDF facilities and energies public influence, I'm gonna launch a coup without getting any impressionable young officers on board first"
What did he mean by this? Was it all just autism?
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>>1865220
*enormous* public influence, rather
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Was he really that bad?
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Nah
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other than using chemical weapons on Ethiopia, and giving into Hitler and therefore enforcing anti semetic laws in 1939, no.
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If you side with the people that got defeated and/or get killed by your own people you are a shitty leader. He manuged to do both.
Hello /his/, i'd like to learn more about buddhism but don't really know where to begin, i thought coming here to ask could be a good start
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>where to begin
The Pali Canon, generally speaking. Each sect has it's own internal divisions and sometimes text usage (of course the Tibetan Vajrayana schools put all of their tantras into canon, etc.).
Wikipedia can give you a good overview and chapters/books to search for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81li_Canon#Contents_of_the_Canon
Follow the hotlinks to what looks to pique your interest.
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What do buddhists think of Schopenhauer?
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>>1865173
I prefer Schelling, and really every other philosopher of Will. He's not awful but other framers are more in line with my taste.
On the other hand, I'm not even Buddhist and don't particularly like Buddhism, so take my opinion for what it's worth (very little).
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>Land was first sighted at 2 a.m. on October 12, 1492, by a sailor named Rodrigo de Triana (also known as Juan Rodriguez Bermejo) aboard La Pinta. Columbus would later assert that he had first seen the land and, thus, earned the reward of 10,000 maravedÃs.
>Columbus and his remaining crew came home to a hero's welcome when they returned to Spain. He showed off what he had brought back from his voyage to the monarchs, including a few small samples of gold, pearls, gold jewelry stolen from natives, a few natives he had kidnapped, flowers, and a hammock.
>Columbus's letter on the first voyage to the royal court in Madrid was extravagant. He insisted he had reached Asia (it was Cuba) and an island off the coast of China (Hispaniola). His descriptions were part fact, part fiction
>During the second voyage, Columbus sent a letter to the monarchs proposing to enslave some of the Americas' people, specifically from the Carib tribe, on the grounds of their independence-minded aggressiveness
>Columbus enslaved five hundred and sixty people. The slaves were shipped to Spain; 200 died during the route back to Spain, and half of the remainder were ill when they arrived.
lol, this guy was a real piece of work
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he was italian
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>>1865070
It gets worse, he did a lot more enslaving
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>insulting Columbus
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Why is Babylon a byword for a corrupt and evil entity when the real Babylon was a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, vibrant metropolis where the arts and sciences blossomed and even slaves could reach high posts?
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>>1865058
It ultimately comes from jewish ideas. Babylon was not only one of the greatest enemies for the jewish peoples, but also the flagbearer of a completely different lifestyle and values. Hebrews were tribalistic hill pastoralists, Babylon was a massive cosmopolitan city in the craddle of agriculture. Despite being both semitic peoples (which makes them culturally related), hebrews and babylonians were morally and ideologically very different. See how Babylon is always evil and corrupt because in a moral way, branded as "degenerate".
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>>1865088
this
Also uprooting peoples is not a good move desu
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>>1865088
So it's basically the country man's contempt for the decadent and effeminate city folk
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If Turks were gay, how can it be wrong?
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>>1865016
Because the Turks are absolutely without exception ALWAYS wrong, anon.. Your a historian, you know this.
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>>1865016
side not lmao has pic related ever actually been attempted? it looks fucking ridiculous even by sodomite stabdards
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>>1866107
side *note* / *standards* sorry
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Who's in the right here?
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I would say Moot for never creating an humanities board.
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>>1864941
really makes me think
really, REALLY makes me think
vraiment me fait penser
really increases my neuron activity
verdaderamente me hace pensar
really really really makes me fucking think
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>>1864941
>testimony of the one who made it
>Exodus quote is in the third person
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Historicity of King Arthur
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I've heard a lot of theories ranging from Romano British Cavalry Commander during the Anglo-Saxon invasions (seems to be the most popular) to Scottish pagan to pure fantasy conjured by scared and defenseless Britons. Was wondering what /his/'s thoughts on the matter were.
I've seen his name spelt Arthwr and Arddwr in one of my textbooks and a pdf a professor sent me which makes me think he was some kind of Welsh or Cumbric.
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>>1864874
Welsh/Cumbric is more likely than Scottish, and he could be partially from Roman administration descent.
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>>1864874
Where is Camelot? The place of his supposed conception is a real castle in Cornwall, is it possible that it exists somewhere?
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/his/, which society/historical period do you think people were happiest in?
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>>1864840
The present
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>>1864840
Probably relatively recent times, ie within the last 2 centuries
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>>1864840
I think people were happier in small tribes for the most part.
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>The ground of being is an eternal melancholy
>God created out of a desire for an ineffable something he glimpsed in the loneliness of eternity; this is the reason why all beings are born with a yearning for something they can never name
>God is not a distant, transcendent creator but looks out from the eyes of all created beings
>We are the Absolute's coming to a waking knowledge of itself
>The sources of existence will forever be shrouded in mystery
>Evil is non-being's craving for being
>Philosophical wordplay and autistic system-building is inadequate to healing the true sorrows of life
Holy mother of FUCK this nigga is dank
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>mfw /his/ too pleb for this dankness
I just wanna post cartoon frogs and talk about the shortcomings of objective idealism...
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Who is this please?
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>>1864799
>Philosophical wordplay and autistic system-building is inadequate to healing the true sorrows of life
that one fucked me up
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Is there any reason to think that the first Americans weren't European in origin?
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>>1864339
Because they weren't. They came to America from Siberia.
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Yes, the mountain of evidence (archaeological and genetic) that they didn't. In fact, there's really no reason to think that they were, besides a gross misrepresentation of the significance of superficial similarities in stone tools used thousands of years apart.
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>>1864339
Ample reasons.
That said, if neolithic yuros DID come over but never got around to colonization and stuck to the east coast before getting BTFO for whatever reason then pretty much all evidence of their presence was swallowed by the sea thousands of years ago.
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Who would usually win between knights and snails?
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The snails, this is why knights as heavy cavalry and infantry started to decline in favor of pike and shot tactics, which were highly effective against snails.
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You see a lot more snails than knights these days, don't you?
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>>1864334
>more snails than knights
Where the fuck do you live where it's always daytime?
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Tell me about Cyprus
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More evidence of the Turks being the bad guys of history
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Its rightful Roman clay. As the empire is dead, the Greeks deserve direct control
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>>1864195
What do you mean friend?
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Why did USA buy Alaska?
>literal wasteland
>separated from the mainland
>no people
>no resources (as far as they knew)
It just doesn't feel like a good investment desu senpaitachi
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>>1863985
Do you want Russia on the North American continent?
Because if you don't buy Alaska, you get Russians on the North American continent
And that's bad
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>>1863985
cuz they knew that in some decades they would find oil there.
Just don't ask me how
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>>1863985
US scientists at the time already knew global warming existed, so they needed a living space for generations very far in the future.