When and when not is censorship ethical
On a public forum? Only to block spam (not rampant ideas) and criminal activity
>>1699142
>a public forum
What's a public forum?
We can't allow racism here
You know what would make this board a lot better? If OP's had a *minimal* word limit, not just a maximum word limit. If that were done, we could weed out most of the OP's that have zero substance. Even better, it might drive away posters who have a short attention span. "And humanities" would be a lot less toxic if it didn't permit basic, obtuse, one line OP's like, "Is monogamy natural?" and "are emotions just chemicals"? Sure, this might negatively impact some fun threads about memeing, but even meme OP's would be better if they were accompanied by some substance. Hell, this might even make religion threads bearable.
Please, mods, make this a reality.
>>1699093
No.
Stop posting this. You claim to want quality but this thread is completely off-topic.
It's January 1st, 1939. A freak earthquake moves the entire landmass of great Britain towards France and connects their former coastlines . Miraculously nothing is damaged and no one is hurt.
WW2 starts. Does the UK surrender like France as soon as a German steps inside the country?
>>1699015
Not "as soon as a german steps in", but those 24-28ish divisions they had on hand in 1940 aren't going to stop the Germans for long, who can pour almost 6 times as many troops into the kettle. There'd probably be one or two shortish battles, and that's that.
The real question becomes what happens to the Commonwealth as an institution, as places like Canada and Australia and South Africa are suddenly cut off from the occupied mother country.
>>1699015
>Does the UK surrender like France as soon as a German steps inside the country?
Yep.
>>1699015
>It's January 1st, 1939. A freak earthquake moves the entire landmass of great Britain towards France and connects their former coastlines . Miraculously nothing is damaged and no one is hurt.
>he thinks WW2 would actually start
If you get France and Great-Britain at such a proximity with each other, the true world war would be the war they'd wage between themselves.
Hey guys im a STEM major and am changing it now to a history major because thats easy and I like history to. What is the best specialization of history or funniest one to learn about?
I was thinking learning about earth history because that seems like it would be the best for getting a job. If I learn about the earth than maybe I can find where the gold and oil is at with math.
>>1698759
>funniest one to learn about?
The Holocaust
>>1698766
stop with the anit semantic comments in my thread pol faggot.
>>1698802
I'm serious though.
Go Jewish history and get yourself some networking.
Why does the universe obey scientific laws? Is it because of God's will? Is it just big coincidence?
>>1698746
1. YOU MEAN THE WORLD, OR THE KOSMOS, NOT THE UNIVERSE; THE UNIVERSE IS THE TOTALITY, WHICH COMPRISES THE KOSMOS, AND THE CELESTIAL REALM.
2. THE KOSMOS DOES NOT OBEY SCIENTIFIC LAWS, BUT RATHER SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES DESCRIBE THE KOSMOS.
3. THE KOSMOS FUNCTIONS ACCORDING TO SET SYSTEMIC RULES BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT COULD NOT FUNCTION, NOR BE.
THE KOSMOS WAS CREATED BY SOFIA, AND USURPED BY IALDABAOTH.
The universe doesn't obey scientific law. Scientific laws obey the universe.
>>1698879
/lit/ misses you
What was all the gold and silver taken from the americas spent on?
Did the random spanish villager benefited someway from the influx of treasure from the new world?
It was spent on crashing economy with no survivors.
It was spent on the American Revolutionary War.
They spent most of it trying to force Catholicism on the rest of Europe.
Explain kamikaze attacks. How do you convince someone to kill themselves as the last resort?
> If you didn't do this, we kill you on spot.
Wow! So hard.
It's easy to brainwash young men into things like honor and that it's ok to kill yourself for the greater good. Optional: you also convince them there's an afterlife.
For the glory of the Emperor
What went wrong?
Russians mobilized faster than expected
German Troops were taken away from the right hook to deal with Russia at Tannenberg.
Germany somewhat stupidly believed that Britain wouldn't get involved at all, thinking they were only going to be fighting the French.
French and British troops were able to lay down defensive networks at the Marne fast enough to stop the advance.
>>1698722
I was watching a documentary about this the other week.
As first post said, Russians mobilized much faster than the Schlieffen plan was hoped for. Also, General Moltke altered Schlieffen's original plan which Schlieffen warned would leave the right flank exposed.
>>1698864
Schlieffen's last words to Moltke were "don't forget to strengthen the right flank."
Mughal art and architecture is basically Persian culture am I correct?
So .. India was Iranianised in a sense?
What architecture existed before Mughals
>>1698658
"Persianized" is the correct term:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persianization
Mughal Empire was "Persianate":
https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persianate_society
>>1698658
>Mughal art and architecture is basically Persian culture am I correct?
Mughal architecture basically developed out of adding Central Asian (ie Timurid) elements onto earlier Islamic Indian architecture like that of the Delhi Sultanate or Malwa, which itself was derived from eastern Iranian (Ghurid and Ghaznavid) architecture. So while it had Persianate origins Islamic Indian architecture had a fairly unique development and looked pretty different to that of Persia itself. Mughal painting was derived more directly from contemporary Safavid Persia, with strong European and Hindu influences.
>India was Iranianised in a sense?
The Muslim elite was, though they were mostly Turks with a smaller number of Persians, Arabs, Africans and Indian converts.
>What architecture existed before Mughals
The Delhi Sultanate after 1200 introduced Ghurid architecture which tended to be covered in geometric brick designs, and also introduced massive stone fortresses. After 1330 the Delhi Sultanate, which had conquered most of India, collapsed and left behind dozens of small successor sultanates that developed more regional styles, sometimes incorporating Hindu features. Likewise, Hindu architecture adopted some Islamic architecture and flourished in places like Vijayanagar and Mewar, and continued to flourish under Mughal rule. The Mughals combined and improved on many of these designs in north India, while the contemporary Deccani Sultanates built on the designs of the earlier Bahmani Sultanate.
Pic related, typical Delhi Sultanate architecture from c. 1220 AD; the Adhai Din ka Jhonpra Mosque in Ajmer
>>1699152
By far the most famous Delhi Sultanate architecture at the Qutb Complex, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries.
How was it living in a medieval monastery? How much did it resemble an autarchic commune?
it was pretty ballin i loved it
Why didn't everyone live in monastaries and support themselves farming like the monks did? The bible basically says you're supposed to live like monks
They sometimes had these walled in rooms in them where a hermit lived until he died. There was only a hole to feed him and probably empty his chamber pot.
Why don't Italians speak Latin? Which romance language is closest to Latin?
>>1698583
>Which romance language is closest to Latin?
Italian
>>1698583
>Why don't Italians speak Latin?
Because languages evolve and split dumbass
>Which romance language is closest to Latin?
Romanian has the closest grammer vut pronunciation wise it's Italian
>>1698589
Why would it split if its spoken in the same area?
What would the world look like if the Central Powers won?
I am bulgarian myself, so greetings central bros!
The German war goal for Europe was "Mitteleuropa" which was a conglomeration of Eastern European states under German political and cultural influence which included the Ukraine, Livonia, Lithuania, Belarus, Romania and the Crimea and Poland, the purpose of those states was essentially trade and cutting of England from transcontinental trade to secure German dominion over Europe
Belgium would have probably ended up as a puppet and Luxembourg would have become part of the Empire while France would have experienced a similar fate to Germany and be forced to pay reperations while being heavily demilitarized
While Germany would have dominated Eastern Europe AH and Bulgaria would have gotten control of the Balkans.
>>1698528
>Germany can just annex the oldest country in Europe
>and get away with it
What?
But the non-meme answer aside is that the germans formulated their ambitions in the September program, which follow what >>1698567 has had to say East-ward, and would've sought to vassalize Belgium and capture from France a corridor from Metz to Calais (and demilitarization and the like).
>>1698528
Their would be more constitutional monarchies and less democracies in the world. French butthurt would reach truly unthinkable levels.
How "unified" was the Roman Empire?
Was it something comparable to modern national state?
Or more like several semi-independent realms paying tribute to the city Rome?
I think they didn't care much besides getting their due taxes. Governors of provinces and other officials did exploit their positions to enrich themselves. Varus was doing so in Syria before getting posted in Germania where he shat the whole joint up trying to keep on enriching himself.
They didn't have rights to raise legions as far as I know.
>>1698474
so in what way was the roman Empire different from the feudal system?
>>1698479
Republican checks and balances. That shit didn't really change much even with the imperator.
What are some notable assassinations in history. Im making an adult coloring book with said theme. For example franz Ferdinand.
>>1698442
The killing of your mothers vagina comited by me last night
>>1698442
Lenin shoting the czars familly. But like in a propaganda way.
JFK, Julius Cesar, Trosky in Coyoacan, Jesus hahaha I don't there's lots of them
Hey /his/, what's a good resource for learning about American history? I'm an American, and recently I've suspected that a lot about what I know about the founding fathers or our nation is based on memes and old memories from childhood history classes which proved themselves to be wildly innacurrate.
>>1698431
How good are your critical thinking skills/how much exposure have you had to historiography?
maybe you could start by not calling everything a "meme" like every other retarded child on this site does nowadays
>>1698800
"Meme" is actually a technical term by famed scientist Richard Dawkins.