What was the best Mesopotamian city?
Uruk
Source: Gilgamesh
Uruk
Look at all the pathetic Uruk-fags in this thread.
Babylon is the all-time GOAT.
I am perhaps the most intelligent piece of sentient life that has every exsisted in history. In fact, I am history itself, the cosmos is my playpen.
Can any of "you" (false egos of myself) prove me wrong?
if your so smart why are you on 4chan
Yes in that you feel you need to speak to us for any reason at all
When one speaks to oneself that self is not a separation it is not another "ego" it is like an arm that you forgot about this is why you don't seriously demand answers from it unless youare crazy and if that's the case that for intelligence is forfeit anyway
To be intelligent is to make intelligence, as in to formulate a reasonable response if it is the case that you demand something from us it must mean that we or rather not-you are separately intelligent, ie, you expect us anyway even if you already decided we are false
double-think is a poison
>>1747364
I was told that this was the place I should go to understand the true meaning of myself.
Why did they start it?
treaty with austrohungary
>>1747306
They've stood there realizing that they were just like you, trying to make history.But who's to judge right from wrong?
>>1747315
>But who's to judge right from wrong?
Germans are always wrong
What's the most corrupt religious organisation to exist, as in its means of acquiring and keeping secular power going against its founding or official religious principles and dogmas?
>>1747188
Scientology.
Statism
>>1747188
>plz corrupt religious organisation
>picture of the vatican
Are you.. protestant or Constantine?..
The legions, Varus.
underrated
;_;
>>1747173
10/10
How come so is he regarded as one of the greatest military strategists in history and one of the greatest generals of antiquity if he just won 1 good battle and then lost his homeland to a lesser army? That's quite pathetic too be honest.
>>1747028
Nobody ever regards him as a great strategist.
He's regarded as a great tactician for repeatedly pullings wins out of his hat despite usually bringing to the field smaller armies that were more poorly equipped and trained than that of his enemies.
>>1747038
"Military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge called Hannibal the "father of strategy",[8] because his greatest enemy, Rome, came to adopt elements of his military tactics in its own strategic arsenal. This praise has earned him a strong reputation in the modern world, and he was regarded as a great strategist by Napoleon and others."
muh elephants
muh alps
Let's play a game /his/
Say one good and one bad thing about historical personality posted above yours.
I'll start.
>>1746840
>good
all around badass. Got knocked down and kept kicking ass
>bad
got killed by a frog
>>1746848
>good
Kept his shit together and wasn't afraid to risk it all for victory.
>bad
Let Hamilton manipulate him.
>>1746851
But Buddha is fictional figure.
>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/26/national/history/ancient-roman-coins-unearthed-castle-ruins-okinawa/
>Coins issued in ancient Rome have been excavated from the ruins of a castle in Okinawa Prefecture, the local board of education said, the first time such artifacts have been discovered in Japan.
>The board of education in the city of Uruma said the four copper coins, believed to date back to the Roman Empire in the third to fourth centuries, were discovered in the ruins of Katsuren Castle, which existed from the 12th to 15th centuries. Okinawa’s trade with China and Southeast Asia was thriving at the time and the finding is “precious historical material suggesting a link between Okinawa and the Western world,” the board of education said.
>Each coin measures 1.6 to 2 cm in diameter. The designs and patterns on both sides are unclear due to abrasion. Based on X-ray analysis, however, the board said the coins appear to bear an image of Constantine I and a soldier holding a spear. Other relics unearthed from the site include a coin from the 17th century Ottoman Empire, as well as five other round metallic items that also appear to be coins.
Now, these coins most likely got here through trade and were the property of some sort of collector. But that article lead me to this
>http://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-what-third-century-china-thought-about-the-roman-1253007513
which mentions the Weilue, a Chinese text about the Roman Empire.
So how far east did the Romans actually go? Apparently they were somewhat well-known even in China.
Quite a trade route.
What was the point of the silk road?
>roman bitches demand silk the way bitches demand diamonds nowadays (also a scam)
>romans mine tons of silver and gold and send it along the silk road
>have to devalue their coinage to keep up with demand
>china gets silver and gold but they don't export it so inflation erases most of its value
>>1746858
That leads to an interesting question, did they even have an understanding of economics at that time? Or as far later as the Spanish ruining themselves with hyperinflation from too much gold?
Meme warriors hired by meme empire. Am I supposed to be impressed the punching bag cosplaying as Roman Empire considered them elite troops? They would consider a kid with wooden sword a great warrior.
Byzantine Empire was a pile of shit.
>>1746801
dude normans were fucking fearsome and btfo'd anything they versed until generations of breeding patterns alliances and tech dissemination later
ground unit cataphrats
>>1746809
Double edged battle axes will never stop triggering me.
Was ancient Egypt a meme? Everyone conquered them.
>>1746742
They conquered Canaan and part of Syria and Nubia
but they conquered the galaxy
>>1746742
And the vast majority of Black people romanticize and worship them. Makes you think, doesn't it.
How comes this board denies the countless contributions of Germanic people?
Nobody denies their role of ruining Europe in two unnecessary wars.
WE WUZ KINGZ N SHIT
NIGGA WE CREATED KULTUR N SHIT
>Germanic """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""people""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
How comfortable was this crown? When did the emperors wear it? How often would they wear it?
>a bunch of shiny rocks stuck in a shiny metal hat
Crowns are sorta ridiculous when you think about it.
>>1746303
Fancy hats in general are pretty silly
>>1746313
I think the silliest hats are the straight brim hats that people buy and keep the stickers on them.
>hey guys, what if we decided extremely complex, critical, issues requiring extensive study and expertise, by a common vote of uninformed people whose expertise is totally unvetted?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TArNqebm_Gg
>thinking they count votes
You vote for representatives who make these decisions, not directly for policy you fool.
When you reject democracy you reject self-rule. Maybe political cucks like you think daddy in the state knows what's best for you better than you know yourself, but I disagree.
Can we agree that Andrey Vlasov did nothing wrong?
>>1745977
>Betrayed his own country
>Nothing wrong
????
>>1745977
>famous soviet officer
>unable to lead the troops out of the ring
>betrays soviets
>doesn't fight soviets, just talks shit
>1945, shit hits the fan
>betrays germans and runs to the western occupation zone
>gets betrayed by the western allies
>gets HANG'D
>>1746045
He did fight the soviets though, in 1945 at the Oder.
Some questions about Christianity
After reading >>/r9k/31688763 I was wondering
why are things like transsexualism and homosexuality considered sins?
I understand rape, murder, theft etc being sins because they cause direct suffering to otherwise. I understand promiscuity, laziness, drug use etc being sins because they don't cause direct suffering, but indirectly cause suffering to society as a whole. But can you really make the case for homosexuality and transsexualism being the same? I'm not talking about gay pedophiles or gays spreading aids like crazy or transsexuals killing themselves, because those aren't strictly issues with homosexuality or transsexualism, but rather issues of pedophilia, promiscuity, and suicide in people who happen to be gay or trans and lots of straight normal people have those problems too. I know transsexuals are much more likely to commit suicide, but so are people who lose their job, people born in certain places etc. and I am not completely convinced that it's purely a transsexual thing and not a how transsexuals fit into society thing.
Is it just wrong just because it's wrong and you're not supposed to question it?
Is it more of a historical thing than a moral thing, like early Christian tribes' enemies practiced homosexuality so they outlawed it to separate themselves or something?
>what is sodom and gomorrah
>>1745971
it taint natural
>>1745979
But it is natural? It's virtually universal everywhere in the world that an extremely tiny fraction of humans show behavior of being attracted to the same sex or identifying as the opposite sex. It's as old as history itself.
If things being unnatural is a sin, why is wearing clothes ok? Driving a car? Using a computer? Farming? Language?