Battles that make you swell with pride
I'll start.
>2000 people total
>3 cannons
It's remarkable how the fate of such a powerful region was decided by such a small battle
>>1751926
It really is interesting how small the battles were, but how big a deal they were to the region. Texas history is actually fairly interesting and full of tales of heroes (just like any other war, I'd wager, but being a 7th generation Texan makes you appreciate them more)
>Texians continued to chant "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" while frightened Mexican infantry yelled "Me no Alamo!" and begged for mercy to no avail.
If you could summon one historical female to be your waifu who would it be?
>>1742744
Excellent choice, anon
Just about finished with my catalog, got a few more bits and pieces that you may find interesting.
Balinese palm leaf book.
>>1752903
>>1752921
Mr. Bruner penciled a translation on the back of each page but I can barely read his handwriting.
Utilitarianism is a top-tier philosophy.
Prove me wrong.
Hard mode: No "muh feels" arguements.
>>1752429
But utilitarianism is itself a "muh feels" argument.
>>1752429
>implying philosophy without "muh feels" is possible
>>1752429
>Maximise happiness
Why must I do that?
Why has France never recovered from the Franco-Prussian War?
They've really become a third tier power ever since.
demographics
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Really, it's more of a chronic problem stemming from the French Revolution
>revolution fails
>tensions never dissipate from society
>republican vs monarchist
>Protestant vs Catholic
>urban vs. rural
>socialism vs. capitalism
>repeated wars, insurrections, and occupations only exacerbate the political and sectarian tensions
>by the time of the third republic, a lot of France sympathizes with the Nazis more than the government
>a lot of what remains is socialists, pacifists, communists, and other human beings unworthy of the gift of life
Even after WW2, they had a semi-coup to change to a presidential system, and then a bunch of disgruntled army officers tried to kill De Gaulle because he wasn't militant enough for them.
This is incidentally why they hideously botched WW2, and why the wars in Indochina and Algeria were such clusterfucks compared to the ones in Kenya and Malaysia
They haven't recovered since the 100 days.
How is it that France has been the most militarily successful nation in European history?
WWII memes aside, of course.
Mo people, mo economy, mo land
>>1747233
They're not German.
>>1747242
> germemes
> military successful loss of two world wars
ITT: /his/ memes
>>1737485
bonus points for shitty oc
>>1737485
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>>1737485
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HE DID IT HE ACTUALLY DID IT, THE ABSOLUTE MAD MAN. HE SOLVED THE IS–OUGHT PROBLEM .
WHAT DID HE DO?
WHEN DID HE DO IT?
pls explain
Was Nat Turner justified in using violence to free black people?
>>1749987
I'm going to say yes but at the same time I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere nearby when this is going on.
Means to an end, my white friend
>>1749996
But the end result is that blacks do far more damage to blacks than whites ever did. Are the means justified now?
Lets talk about Sumeria.
>Was it really the first civilization?
>What made it collapse?
>Are they "better" than Ancient Egyptians?
>What was the deal with their creepy religious deities?
Mesopotamia is so confusing.
So many civilizations and empires of different ethnicities.
Can someone list all the Mesopotamian kingoms with thier ethnicity beside?
Yes
>Kingdom of the sand
>Niggers
Fun fact, they had no army
Can anybody help me understand this?
Pretty much all Jewish people have German names. Yiddish is literally German with the Hebrew alphabet.
From like 1800 to the Holocaust it seems like a ton of important Germans were Jewish. There were less Jews in Germany than there are in America, but we have Marx and Freud and Einstein and Fritz Lang and Walter Benjamin and Walter Rathenau and Mahler and Mendelson totally stealing the show.
Why were Jews so important in Germany despite small numbers? Reading Ulysses suggests everybody associated Germans and Jews with each other, and the Dreyfuss Affair suggests that just being Jewish meant Dreyfuss was believed to have German sympathies.
they couldn't own land
they had some protection in the hre after huge massacres during the crusade times
due to the jobs they were allowed to do they became a part of the urbanized merchant class so they were affected by developing ideas relatively fast and had connects in business and social circles just because of the jobs they were allowed to do such as usury
The majority of Ashkenazim lived in the Austria-Hungary region when surnames became commonplace, which is why Yiddish surnames are most often Germanic. They migrated East as conditions became less hospitable for Jews in Western Europe.
As far as the Jews in Germany proper, they became quite segregated from the Eastern European majority. The Easterners stereotyped them as pretentious and unfriendly, while the German Jews considered the Easterners superstitious boors with no class.
Jews in Western Europe tended to be much better educated than the working class ones who came from the East, particularly in England and Germany.
> the Dreyfuss Affair suggests that just being Jewish meant Dreyfuss was believed to have German sympathies.
That actually had more to do with Dreyfus being from Alsace. Dreyfus' Jewishness made him a target for accusations of espionage, but officers in his position were chosen for their knowledge of German language and culture. Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by Germany at the time Dreyfus moved to Paris, and it was only after that that he enlisted with the military.
>>1748134
The urban part is what's really relevant. Jews were 5-10% of the Berlin population before the war, even if they were only about 1% of the total German population.
Most Germans still lived rural lives in the early 20th century, insulated from cosmopolitan turbulence.
ITT: Historical misconceptions you believed for a long time.
I'll start:
>Aztecs thought the Spaniards were gods
>Every medieval and Elizabethan town had shit everywhere in the streets
>The "Holy" "Roman" "Empire"
>Einstein invented relativity
>The treaty of Versailles was harsh
>Communism is evil
ITT: summarize your view on the world in one sentence
The weak should fear the strong
>>1726338
>15 years old boy who heard about Nietzsche on youtube
>>1726338
People are generally good
>>1726342
>Commie 15 year old that heard about marx on tumblr
We're all anonymous here, no need to be embarrassed.
I'll start us off:
>used to think Rome was still a real culture/empire because when I was 6 my friend's parents hired two actors to roleplay legionaries on his birthday
>used to think that George Washington chopped down a cherry tree given to the US by the Japanese because I lived in DC and we have cherry trees that were given to us by the Japanese and I assumed Washington lived in Washington DC
>used to think the Queen of the UK could still order people's heads cut off because of Alice in Wonderland
>this one isn't really historical but I thought that when you died your flesh just instantly dissipated and you turned into a skeleton
I used to think Rome was Controlled by three families who went on to conquer their own parts of the known world before Caesar revolted and took over it all
>>1748991
>>this one isn't really historical but I thought that when you died your flesh just instantly dissipated and you turned into a skeleton
That's actually true, tho?
>used to think America is a real place
>used to think the past smelled better
>used to think numbers were invented by the Welsh
>used to think the past came AFTER the present
I used to think that the figures at Pompeii were actually just the real people "frozen" in ash, not plaster fills of the imprints they left behind.
What are some good books about the migration period? I'm interested in how the different groups of people moved around and assimilated/conquered existing peoples, as well as the origins of Slavs, Ango-Saxons, etc.
>>1738576
sauce on that bitch?
>>1738576
totally would bang that chick to hell and back
SAUCE THE DAMN BITCH FFS