Why did Hitler bother with the Molotov Ribbentrop pact if Stalin was so fucking terrified of him and started begging for peace the moment barbarossa began?
Surely giving the Soviets the east just gives more land to cover in the invasion?
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Perhaps he didn't want to provoke a war with Stalin by unilaterally advancing massive forces in a land grab up to the Russian border when he planned to then attempt to knock the Allies out of the war?
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>>1673915
>started begging for peace the moment barbarossa began?
Sauce?
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>>1673915
Diplomacy.
He scared of you? Good
You might want to beef that up with a pact so it stays solid.
Found this in my grandfathers safe after he passed a few years back, any idea where it originated from? Made of brass and wood, not sure what the blade itself is made of
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>>1673895
Possibly from Yemen? They love to carry daggers around
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>>1673895
I think it's a watch.
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>>1673895
Is the text upside down Hindi?
What made diogense so great?
He sounds like a crazy bum.
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Where do you think you are exactly?
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>>1673924
Touche.
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>>1673878
The fact that you know the name of some random crazy bum from Greece who died over 2000 years ago suggests an answer.
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Early Christian symbols 2016-09-09 19:26:19 Post No.1673866
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Why did the Cross ultimately become the prime christian symbol over other symbols like the Chi Rho and the Icthys?
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Paul said "we preach christ crucified"
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>>1673872
Was the matter never addressed in an ecumenical council? Was it just a case of "well if Paul said it...".
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>>1673916
Scripture >>>>>> Council
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Thoughts on Martin Luther King Jr?
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>>1673816
Spinning in his grave over BLM.
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>>1674151
So much this.
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How Was Ancient Rome Really Founded? 2016-09-09 18:19:23 Post No.1673661
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How Was Ancient Rome Really Founded?
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Is there an academic idea as to how Rome was really founded?
The Romulus and Remus story is a myth that is likely untrue. Is there a consensus on a real historical narrative?
What made the village of Rome become so great versus the other villages?
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>>1673661
Probably some rando village that got lucky
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>>1673661
walls if aoe1 is anything to go by
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Studying Ancient Mediterranean Civilisations.
>>1673673 is correct.
This guy did his best literally every time he encountered trouble and yet life always shat on him. Why isn't there a picture of him with JUST hair?
Any other historical figures who just got fucked over by bad luck no matter what?
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Who?
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>>1673655
Constantine IX
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I would say his situation meant there was little luck could do to change it.
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Did the Germans screw Russians in partition of the Poland in 1939?
Pic related is where Industry was located. Everything important went to German Reich, Soviets got only scraps.
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>>1673592
Never thought of this before. That highlighted industrial region, if memory serves correct, under Russia and Austria before WW1. The 1939 partition makes more geographic sense, though.
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>>1673754
Yes, I think Poland had a quarter or something of all Russian industry before world war 1.
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>>1673592
The Russians were not expecting Germany to defeat France. They saw the deal as temporary until the time came to seize the rest of Poland, I would guess.
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Let's talk about antipopes /his/. Did any of them have legitimacy to claim the throne of St.Peter? Were the Avignon Popes antipopes, and can a Pope move the See away from the Vatican?
And a question to those on this board that do not consider Vatican II to be legitimate, do you acknowledge the Popes after John XXIII? Do you think that the throne of St.Peter belong to one of the modern antipopes or do you think that the See is in the sedevacante state?
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Of course they were legitimate only Luigis would tell you otherwise.
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>>1673492
Antipopes.
Legitimate.
kek
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Kinda dumb.
Weren't they all male?
They should have called them Uncle Popes.
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American History Books 2016-09-09 17:11:01 Post No.1673391
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Gimme some good books on American history do it do it do it
I've already got Empire of the Summer Moon but I've heard that might be reddit-tier.
GO GO GO Give me the suggestions hand them over put them in a post and then hit the "Post" button and then I will read them and I will know more about American history
Thank you in advance
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>>1673391
howard zinn
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>>1673391
noam chomsky
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>>1673391
murray newton rothbard
niall fergusson
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>be Voltaire
>“History is the lie commonly agreed upon.”
Is this accepted by /his/torians? Is it just an illuminist early meme? I know Napoleon always rated him.
inb4 le roleplaying christfags bash this beatiful free-thinking erudite
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Not really, it's just sophistry. It's witty, which is what Voltaire was good at, but it isn't really true.
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>>1673386
Slightly less true with academic history, but in the public mind absolutely true.
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>>1673396
Socrates was the greatest sophist.
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make a speech worthy of a 5th century Athenian assembly on anything from a new law to declaring war, lets see how many word smiths and decedents of Odysseus are on this board.
Also general Athenian appreciation thread, Sparta is for homos, Thebes is for sacred homos, and Syracuse is for tyrants.
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>>1673372
shutup cunt
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>>1673372
Today the Original Poster gathered us here with the promise of stirring words and glorious oratory, woe to him for not realizing the error of his ways!
The oratory of the ancients is not contained in mere words but in the presentation, the performance, the spirit of a speech. A gifted orator infuses his words with an ineffable essence. What those on /x/ might call loosh. What those on /pol/ might call memes, what the degenerated cretins on /b/ might call 'lulz' with a semi-conscious prayer to a bygone age. Surely the Original Poster had good intentions, but he has erred in his ways and doomed us all to babble and pasta most foul!
Verily OP is a faggot, and always shall be. This wisdom is the greatest and most ancient of creeds, surviving even the degenerated discourse of latter day image boards.
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H-hello, my fellow Corin--, I mean Athenians...
M-my name is S-Seleukos and, um. Um, I...
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Is it "nile-ist" or is it "nie-hil-ist" or is it "neil-ist"? I hear "nile-ist" all the time but that doesn't seem right so I just use "neil-ist".
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>>1673336
nie-hil-ist
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>>1673350
Are you sure? I used that pronunciation once with a friend and he sperged out on me telling me it's wrong.
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>>1673336
If the word is "nihilist," then it's pronounced nile-ist.
/phil/ humour thread
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>>1673331
wrong board this is /his/
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>>1673412
>& Humanities
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Was the Bush War winnable?
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Not without fuel :^)
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>>1673314
>Bush War
should of put those niggers to work on hemp farms boom bio-fuel
empire lasts forever
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Given the religious and nationalst furor that motivates the Talisman and Iraqi insurgency groups, combined with their guerilla tactics, recruitment/indoctrination, and complete lack of a strong central government, no.
Neither war was winnable in the smack down sense of the word. There will never be a VA or VI day. The best the US government can hope for is puppet dictator after puppet dictator that can keep the actions of these groups to a minimum.