What are the origins of ebonics? What slang and lingo did Southern African Americans use in their tenure as slaves?
one part dumb Hicks not being able into English two parts dumb niggers not understanding the finer rules of English grammar
>>1711745
africans don't think at the same information band as whites. european grammar requires more computational information, and thus a mind only partially capable of performing the computation necessarily leaves higher orders of information out of the sentence
http://www.musanim.com/miller1956/
pic related to link.
the majority of ESL students in schools are monolingual blacks and mexicans
Lots of linguists think that it came from a creole language being standardized and mixed with standard English.
Creole languages popped up in every slave society because slaves from different cultures needed to work with each other and communicate with their masters. In the US, this eventually became standardized and kept blending more and more with standard English with events like emancipation happening.
Why are there so many crazy chess players?
Does chess make people insane, or are insane people attracted to chess?
>>1711642
Higher intelligence leads to crazier minds
Chess requires high intelligence to reach competitive level
They attempt to be interesting people once they know people are watching them.
All high level chess players are autistic
Was the Holy Roman Empire the Holy Empire of the Romans, or the Empire of the Holy Romans?
>>1711626
It was none of those things.
It was the pathetic confederation of the teutons
>king of the romans
>not a king
>not of the romans
I've been having a lot of thoughts about politics and philosophy. I decided to organize them into a series of essays. Two are already finished, and I'm very curious to hear your thoughts!
https://medium.com/essays-on-philosophy-and-politics
criticism is appreciated (as long as its not unnecessarily rude)
pic unrelated
>>1711605
Post your face when you will never be Aron Buch
>>1711612
mfw
why do peoples personal systems of processing data and coming to conclusions differ?
Are Magyars Asian or European?
>>1711381
Their ancestors come from Asia but ever since St. Stephen christianized Hungary they're European. Whatever that means.
WE WUZ AZNS N SHIET is a meme propagated by Hungary's right wing tards.
they are from the Urals, considered the border between Asia and Europe
>>1711381
They live in Europe, to begin with.
How the hell did the Mongolian empire go from being the greatest threat to known world to becoming so fucking irrelevant ? You would think that having the biggest land locked empire in the history of human kind would give you good foundations to build a strong country, but apparently it won't. There were a lot of big empires that fell, but they either evolved into countries that are relevant today (Ottomans-Turkey, Franks-France etc..) or dissolved but their culture and heritage remained ( Rome, Byzantine etc..). However, Mongolia, well remained Mongolia, but it became some God forsaken country in the middle of nowhere, that these days nobody ever hears anything about on the news, or the internet or whatever. Which events lead to modern day Mongolia becoming so irrelevant ?
the empire split into four parts, which all pursued their own interests. all of the mongol rulers eventually assimilated into the cultures of the peoples they had conquered.
>>1711352
Because the Mongol """empire""" was a bunch of horsfucking steppe nomads who just wandered from town to town to collect tribute. It was not an advanced society like the Roman empire for instance.
>>1711352
Well, there was the Mughal empire.
But for your question
>Running around on horses, raping and pillaging is not a great ethos to build empire
>The land was shitty and would require population to migrate at least near Ukraine in order to have sufficient agricultural output for big cities
>Nomadism equals bad infrastructure, decentralization, small and irrelevant cities
What happened in prehistoric Scandinavia?
Lots of rape.
>>1711316
Oh, so what's happenning nowadays is business as usual.
>>1711314
Lots and lots of rape
Is he "our" guy?
Yes.
He is the bane of stupid HREboos.
Yeah he's our fucking guy
All his literature is meant for autists like us
That's what makes it good
>>1711336
Seriously?
I've never read anything from voltaire, give me some for starters.
What were the regions of medieval France like? Were they like their own states?
Did someone in Aquitaine think "I'm from France" or "I'm from Aquitaine"?
Peasants would only really be tied to the land that they live on.
Higher lords and nobles wouldn't see themselves as French so much as they'd see themselves as holders of their family titles that they rule (ie. Lord of Aquitane would be of or from Aquitane). So to answer your question simply, people had no nationalist perception of a French state.
>>1711231
You'll honestly be warranted very different answers whether you ask that question for before the Hundred Years' War or after, so I suggest that you specify when in the Middle Ages you're asking.
>>1711242
What about when they went to war?
t4r. I can't think of any off the top of my head.
>>1710271
Trafalgar
Clontarf
Uh...OP? Your picture?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chancellorsville
What are some good historical youtube channels?
I'll post a favourite of mine, Historia Civilis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heVeJmTOsmQ
What are some others?
Lindybeige :^)
John Green
>>1710245
Who /his/ck/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFFxPVfJNXQ&index=2&list=PL4e4wpjna1vxBS8c6Zarq-L_6siDQdgjo
Was this actually a good idea to keep jews away from palestine?
It was an unhospitable wasteland under Stalinist rule. I wonder why Jews chose Palestine instead.
>>1710249
A desert surrounded by hostile people is better? Why didnt they took madagascar?
>>1710261
JAO is shit, Madagscar is shit, Palestine is strategically located shit they have personal relition to.
First post on this board.
I guess it's the best place for my question.
I found this shield under my parents house.
It's cast iron and made to hang on the wall. Most likely a tourist product but my parents had no idea they even had it, havn't gotten it themselves.
I just want to see if any of you guys would recognize who the man is.
Might be depicting Ajax.
>>1710109
Yeah I can see that, although he has a spear instead of a shortsword.
I'm also confused the the surrounding faces, the one at the top seems to resemble faces from india, the others from christian art.
I'm sure it's a mishmash of "cool shit", but the mold is quite well made.
There are no stamps of what I can find.
>>1710140
This is probably made in the late 19th century (1870 or so). They had an obsession with classical and medieval stuff and just threw anything that's cool on there.
Here is one with some weird medieval images and what I think is hercules in the middle.
Ajax is sometimes depicted with a sword and shield. You can see examples on coins.
Every single important historical figure has read this book. Homer shaped the world
Except for everyone in ancient history and most Oriental leaders from all time.
>tfw you will never read the lost poems of the trojan cycle
Wy live
Might want to add Western there.
Granted you mentioned
>important
but I dunno how far spread Homer's works ever got.Alex's campaigns might've got it as far as India maybe?Maybe reach up to China through trade,but I'm not really versed on that stuff.
How do you want to be buried, /his/?
>>1709638
just burn my body and release my ash in space. graves are waste of space
dumped in the nearest ditch
>>1709638
>buried
Cremated and scattered in the ocean by aircraft. Preferably by a F18