What kind of king is the Burger King styled after?
I'm serious. Where and when did kings look like this?
he looks like charlemange imo
>>1752763
Henry VIII fashion-wise?
>>1752763
>Where and when did kings look like this?
American cartoons.
It's a fairly overdone question, but I don't think I've ever seen it on /his/ before. So what historical figures would you want to invite to your dinner party? (Obviously everyone understands one another and is perfectly happy to talk with you)
Just to name a few of my own:
>Leonardo da Vinci
>Napoleon
>Julius Caesar
>Mark Twain
>Alexander the Great
>Voltaire
I wouldn't be surprised if this thread is mostly just people posting without replying to each other, but I'm always curious whose brains people would love to pick if given the chance to talk with them.
>Napoleon
>Julius Caesar
>Aristotle
>Socrates
>Augustus
>Nero(Just to ask if him really burn Rome,hahaha)
> Adolf Hitler
> Jesus Christ
> Karl Marx
> Jack The Ripper
> D.B. Cooper
What was the origin of the Black Cossacks?
>>1752596
Not Cossacks. This suits are of Caucasian origin, like most things the Cossacks are known for (their music, their dance, their weapons). The one on your pic is a former ottoman slave who got to Abkhazia.
>>1752596
Unknown, but possibly, they originated from the Turkish slave trade. They might have arrived in Circassia either by accident (a shipwreck), or purposefully, delivered there to attend to the fruit plantations of the place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazians_of_African_descent
>Abkhazians of African descent are a small group in Abkhazia[1] of Black African descent who used to live mainly in the Abkhazian settlement Adzyubzha at the mouth of the Kodori River and the surrounding villages of Abkhazia (Chlou, Pokvesh, Agdarra, Merkulov, etc.) on the eastern coast of the Black Sea.[2][3] Like the Afro Turks, they trace their origin back to the African branch of the Ottoman slave trade.
Writing an essay, list all of the things that come to your mind about what the modern society got from the ancient greece. Just facts, thanks
Everything
>>1752578
thanks, much appreciated
Nambla
So what does meta irony actually mean?
>>1752488
Shitposting
>>1752507
but how is that different from normal irony
people always talk about how the shift from irony to meta/post irony was this big cultural shift that changed 4chan forever
how does it manifest itself? How were shitposts different before?
I found 4chan in 2013 if that helps
>>1752488
AS it happened (i.e. not before it happened), could the Germans had done anything to repel the Allies' D-Day beach landings?
>>1752070
Not really, no. They were hugely overmatched. Even the "Mass stuff on the beaches and hope you massed them on the right beach" probably wouldn't have driven the Allies into the sea, it didn't at the Salerno landings.
The Allies had too much air cover, too much naval cover, had blown up too much of the local transport network for the Germans to effectively move their forces around, just had too much going for them.
Why are like 25% of threads on /his/ about how Germany could have won WW2?
d-day was done far after germany had already lost. it was a completely unnecessary american offensive made to get street cred and to get part of the spoils
Why does this trigger proddies so much?
the means of execution and the corpse of your savior is a bizarre religious symbol no matter what denomination you're from
>>1751736
Hes still alive in that depiction, dummy
I think it's because the earliest crosses that Christians used were just plain crosses. They have the mistaken belief that it was the earliest symbol that Christians used and anything that came after is just some clerical invention or something like that.
Did Alexander benefit Hellenistic culture?
On the plus side
>expanded Greek culture to the edges of the known world
>brought immense wealth to the Greek world
>population in most Greek lands increased several fold
On the minus side
>him and his father basically ended the Greek city states as a government form
>adopted the Persian regional satrapy system
>never cared about having a viable heir until it was too late, ensuring his empire's collapse
>core Greek lands actually stagnated under him
>cleared the way for Rome like no one else could
>>1751635
At the start of the Successors Era, Rome's fate was still up in the air. Not to mention the individual States were pretty powerful in their own right.
I think Persian rule might've eventually come to dominate Greek culture in some ways if they hadn't been so dramatically replaced by Greek culture as a result of Alexander's campaign against Darius. More so than the subsequent Roman empire, which imitated Greek culture in a lot of ways, preserving many traditions (including the documenting of historical events, without which we would know as little about the Greeks as we do about the Persians).
The Persians were unlikely to ever dominate Greece militarily but they had less overt means of influencing cultures inside and outside of their empire. They assassinated Philip, for example. And while they were relatively tolerant rulers, the absorption of Greece into their sphere of influence probably would've have eroded Greek culture over time more than the rise of Rome.
That said, Philip's plan for conquest might've gone ahead anyway, without Alexander, though I doubt it would've been half as successful under a different leader.
what's more surprising - the Greeks actually winning the Persian war or Rome rolling over them with minimal effort?
Are the people of this nation the descendants of the ancient Macedonians?
>>1751451
It's the biggest WE WUZ KANGZ nation since the "H" "R" "E"
>>1751451
no, as its not close to where the ancient macedonian borders lie and the population is more serbian than greek which is what macedonians intermarried with and aspired to be.
FYROM is just a buffer state between the balkan nations that all hate each other, it's an abortion of a nation and doesn't deserve to exist.
>>1751477
So FYROM is Balkan's Belgium then?
Did he deserve it?
>>1751363
deserve isn't a good word.
He received it for selfish reasons by selfish men who proclaimed selflessness.
It probably would've happened eventually anyways, considering just how much more popular he would've gotten after invading parthia.
>>1751370
>Implying he would've won against parthia
>wasn't a king
>>1751363
Alledgedly he knew it was coming but let it happen anyways because he had an illness that would've turned him into a groveling retard.
Pretty good show if true. He dies in godhood and people throw themselves in for his successor loli nephew.
Man Caesar was a such a perv. Apparently a mediocre commander as well and got by with his charm and presence.
What does /his/ think of Epic Rap Battles of History? It's mostly shit imo, but there are some enjoyable ones.
>its mostly shit
There ya go
>>1751347
If they focused more on quality and not making bullshit like Bruce Banner vs some white bitch then it might be ok.
>>1751347
Cringe
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/roman-coins-discovery-castle-japan-okinawa-buried-ancient-currency-a7332901.html
Its possible that roman coins made their way across the silk road into china and then across the sea of japan into some rich guys coin collection
I left them there.
Sorry.
>>1751231
Pretty much this.
So /his/, what allowed the American economy to become so disproportionately massive compared to that of the globe?
My ideas:
>Devastation from world wars created economic power vacuum
>Protestant work ethic mixed with capitalist zeal
>Favorable laissez-faire conditions for business growth
>Strong currency
These are just a few reasons I can come up with off the top of my head. Is anyone an expert on this?
Why does the EU only match US gross domestic product despite having nearly 200 million more people?
freemasons
>>1751065
this
>>1751047
Why is your thread title American Exceptionalism when really this about the American economy and not the values of its foreign policy.
If you want an answer though, America has remained relatively laissez-faire through the majority of its existence, and it only really stopped in the past century or so, still having the chance to reap the benefits from it.
Culturally I think you'll find that there's the fact that America tends to being a less stratified society, especially in its industrial and more cereal/food crop based regions where it seems that class is something that is more of a description of someone's current state as opposed to a life long designation like one would find in Europe.
Why isn't Nixon celebrated for normalizing relations with China?
Surely, Watergate should not overshadow such a momentous achievement.
I AM AUTISTIC!!!!
He isn't?
Wasn't it a lot due to China's own internal change, and not due to American overtures?
What if the South had won the War of Northern Aggression?
They slowly (or not so slowly) degenerate into a failed state that grows increasingly irrelevant in world affairs
>>1750670
Third world country in North America.
>>1750683
so no change.