Did China actually discover America before Columbus?
Yes, they also went to the moon before America.
I thought apparently natives are descended from Chinese
>>1837752
There's no evidence that they did and quite compelling reasons why they couldn't have (to do with prevailing winds and the fact that the Pacific is two or thee times as wide as the Atlantic).
They probably /could/ have done so, but idk if the chinese at the time knew the world was round or cared what might be on the other side of the Pacific. The tradition since ancient times was for foreign kings to make their way to the Emperor and kowtow before him, China calls itself the "middle of the world" and has never had the kind of "culture-crush" the West has had with the Greeks, Indians and indeed the Chinese.
Why did he take such a pussy stance against the slaveholding traitors?
Because deep down he knew they were right.
>>1837524
Because his goal was to keep the country united, and dealing with your subjects harshly leads to rebellion.
>>1837556
Occupation, imprisonment, and the redistribution of property would have destroyed any chance of rebellion.
>A house of cards BBC drama documenting the birth of modernism in Italy.
>Season one covers everything from early D'Annunzio's sexcapades, the Futurists, building up to the march on Rome by focusing on various artists and trying to capture l’esprit du temps at that time
>Season two and three is told from the perspective of the Quadrumvirs, starting just before the march on Rome and documenting the rise of Mussolini, the international spotlight that gets shone on Italy, the conquest of Ethiopia, as well as the inner turmoil as ww2 starts to erupt and the distrust against Hitler.
>Season four is told from the perspective of Mussolini, starting from his uneasy alliance with Hitler, cataloging his fall from grace and ending with his execution
>In the last episodes, while Mussolini is waiting to die he ruminates over his life and wonders whether or not he's accomplished anything, or if his entire lifes work will die with him. Flash back to an earlier episode where he briefly meets Juan Domingo Perón. As the series ends credits roll over several news casts announcing the death of Mussolini, Hitler, and the end of WW2. Final clip is a broadcast of Perón being sworn into the presidency.
So, Sopranos with more pasta and gabagool?
HBO series revolving around a group of hunter gatherers in ice age Europe.
>>1837387
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was the American revolution a revolution?
It was a degenerate peasant uprising George III couldn't be bothered with.
Yes, it sharted in the mart of history
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How did networks in the Late Roman and Early Medieval world function in practice? How and by what were they bound together, that is, how were the networks constituted, and who or what was being connected by them? How did their members benefit from the networks they belonged to, and what was the nature of those benefits? What do they reveal about daily life in the early medieval world, and about individual experience(s) at the various levels of society (among elites, ordinary people, the educated, clergy, laity, etc.)?
>>1837351
>Early Medieval
Lots and lots of gift giving.
>>1837351
Is this bergen? Looks amazing
>>1837358
But that was the basis of the patron-client network in Roman life, no? This must've changed in the breakdown of Roman civ
I wanna talk about pavises. They're essentially portable cover for archers or crossbowmen, but what makes them unique is how highly decorated they are. They're usually covered with religious symbols and other intricate designs, which is sorta weird for something that's meant to be scuffed up.
>>1837189
Earliest of pavise shields appeared somewhere in Lithuania/Prussia in 13th century and from there spreads onward to Poland, Teutonic Knights/Bohemia etc. Back then they were simply called Lithuanian or Prussian shields.
>A type of equestrian shield, or pavise, of Baltic origin was the so-called Prussian or Lithuanian shield (Lat. scutum Pruthenicum or clipeus Litwanicus), which became popular even in western Europe. It was rather small, ranging in size from 30 to 50 centimeters in width and 60 to 70 centimeters in height.
>>1837338
I always thought they were named after the city of Pavia
>>1837370
>fascists don't get him
>socialists don't get him
>liberals don't get him
>alt right certainly doesn't get him
>only a handful of other philosophers seem to get him
>nobody really gets him because everyone, in the end, is universalist scum
Fucking ay, why is it so hard for people to understand him?
>>1837180
>hey this stirner guy seems cool
>let's just turn his entire thing into aristorcratic nonsense
>>1837180
Do (You) get him? Prove it.
>>1837204
I know what Dionysian passion is, that Heraclitean madness,
what life affirmation is and what it means to be a Jasager,
how great despising is really a great yearning, how one stays closest to others by striving against them,
how Christianity is nihilist, how Buddhism is nihilist, how all ideologies which seek to become One are nihilist,
how nihilism is overcome by creation,
and how art is the proper task of life.
God is the enemy of life.
Hey /his/, or more specifically, humanities,
I have a debate in my sociology class on gender coming up and I'm interested in your opinions on general roles, gender politics and general itself. I'm open to all opinions I just wanna learn more about the subject.
Gender has just become another example of bullshit wish fulfillment. Like drugs, the whole idea of being able to 'choose' your gender is based on the completely mindless desire for 'new experiences'. Capitalism just stimulates these desires in order to make a buck, and so you end up with stuff like Tumblr and TLC
>gender politics
just suck a feminine dick and it all just comes to you
>be southern states
>Union faggots emancipate your slaves
>pass Vagrancy Acts
>being unemployed is now illegal
>all freedmen are unemployed
>they have to take work as indentured servants to avoid arrest
Classic
It turns out the real villain is capitalism.
>>1836995
Bit rude desu
>>1836995
>t*rks thinking their history is anything worth learning
When did you realize 9th century Europe was basically the Cold War?
The West was
>Decentralized
>Dominated by nobility
>Vaguely democratic
>Generally anti-peasant
The East was
>Centralized
>Dominated by bureaucrats
>Undemocratic and autocratic
>Generally pro-peasant
Both states were massive rivals seeking dominance over Europe, with unlikely allies outside Europe. The relationship between the Charlemagne and the Abbasids is remarkably similar to the relationship between the US and China during the Cold War. Similarly, the Byzantine Empire propped up the Muslim state on Charlemagne's doorstep just like how the Soviets supported cuba.
>>1836951
>cordoba califate was under byzantine influence
wtf nigga
>>1836961
They actually had very friendly diplomatic relations and an informal alliance
>>1836951
This post has lots of bullshit but this one is the greatest
>the west was democratic
>9th century
Why were the Latin American revolutions so prone to the betrayal and execution of some, most or all of their founders?
Picture related
Execution of Miguel HIdalgo after being betrayed.
His successor got it the same way too.
Were Spanish settlers just more loyal to Spain?
>>1836926
It is the nature of all men predisposed to a revolutionary bent to be shortsighted and suffer from chronic disloyalty syndrome.
>>1837002
Why did the US only suffer one major betrayal?
How do we deal with liberal creationists who deny human biological diversity and insist evolution stops at the head?
>evolution
lol
>>1836881
I love how conservafucks hate evolution when it doesn't suit them, but suddenly hold it up as an infallible revelation when it does
I find ancient music to be beautiful in its simplicity. Who were the most cultured musically speaking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcTsFe1PVs
>>1836864
So did the Sumerians have some form of written music notation?
That song was beautiful btw OP, good choice.
>>1836864
Yall going to church sunday?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srr_uPB0esI&index=36
>>1836894
I believe they just had the stories written in cuneiorm. The musical interpretation was left to the artist who then passed it down and so on.
By the time the notation was formed ages had passed since these songs were first performed
>when you realize that not an argument is not an argument
>>1836851
arguments are spooks tho
Are we talking about the idea of an argument or an argument that tries to replicate another argument?
Is Japanese food really healthy and delicous like Japanese themselves boasted ?
I'm 29 lived in NYC my whole life and am somewhat of a weeb but I've never tried sushi ama
They did use to have issues with parasites, meaning Suchi was a higher class food back then.
Japan loves soy sauce so much, that a specific kind of stroke is most common form of mortality.
It also helps that their main form of dishes is basically side dish dishes, so it will be rice and a lot of plates with a lot of different fish/vegetables/seasoning.
Beyond that, the simple truth of the matter is that fish is healthier than cattle, and they still have weird dishes to acquire liver iron.