So, the Ainu and the Emishi are two of the indigenous peoples of the Japanese archipelago.
From where did the modern population of Japan colonize from? Ancient China? Ancient Korea? Is there even a modern equivalent of the ancestors of the modern Japanese population?
Photo is from the February 1967 issue of National Geographic, Ainu woman with tattoos signifying ability to marry.
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The Yangtze, where rice agriculture began and where most rice-growing populations originate.
Source: some bullshit I read somewhere
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>>1673152
Am i the only one who find them yo be somewhat similar to abos?
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>>1673190
They're supposed to be genetically related to the indigenous peoples of the Pacific North-West, like the Haida, Tsimshian, and Tlingit. You can definitely see some resemblance there, but I can see the similarities to Australian Aborigines in the heavy brow, deep set eyes, and thick hair.
It is known that God is Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnibenevolent, but what should be a proper terms for entities that got only some of such terms and not all package? For example, purely Omniscient entity is probably Oracle. The Pantheism uses only Omnipresence, if you add Omniscience, you will got something close to a Panpsychism. Buddha probably Omniscient and Omnibenevolent, etc.
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>>1673101
The catch all term for any combination of these attributes is "Fiction".
*tips*
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>It is known that God is...
Since when? Who "knows" these things? How did they get this "knowledge"?
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Was she really such a bad ruler?
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>>1673034
Something tells me siphoning public funds from developing your navy to making a palace is a shit thing to do.
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>>1673034
>dem nails
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She was first instagramer, need i say more
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Post contemporary depictions or descriptions of pre-modern cities and city life, either outside of the West or in the pre-1500 West, preferably based on eyewitness accounts.
I'll dump what I've got.
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Florence depicted in the Bigallo Madonna, painted about 1342 AD.
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>>1673004
The same city a century and a half later.
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A French depiction of a city, possibly based on Paris, from the 1450s.
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Mythology and History
How many mythological stories are actually based on history?
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>>1672966
Post more Hindu mythology art
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Mahabharata was based on real events.
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Five.
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When did the last bits of Anglo-American enmity die off?
Could there have been a third, post-1812 conflict between the U.K. and U.S.?
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>>1672956
When the US Industrialized and it's economic influence eclipsed Britain and it's unstable empire.
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according to the book Grasshopper Lies Heavy, yes
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There was the Trent Affair, I don't see it spiralling into a full-blown war given another roll of the dice though.
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>tfw you will never live during Augustus reign during Pax Romana.
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>Implying
The objective best time to live in the Roman Empire is under the reign of Antoninus Pius.
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>Pax Romana
Still sucked p. bad if you were poor
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>>1672953
I just wish we could still build modern cities that look like this.
>Of that Byzantine empire, the universal verdict of history is that it constitutes, without a single exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed. There has been no other enduring civilization so absolutely destitute of all forms and elements of greatness, and none to which the epithet "mean" may be so emphatically applied ... The history of the empire is a monotonous story of the intrigues of priests, eunuchs, and women, of poisonings, of conspiracies, of uniform ingratitude.
-William Lecky
>Its [Byzantium's] general aspect presents a disgusting picture of imbecility: wretched, nay, insane passions, stifles the growth of all that is noble in thoughts, deeds, and persons. Rebellion on the part of generals, depositions of the Emperors by means or through the intrigues of the courtiers, assassinations or poisoning of the Emperors by their own wives and sons, women surrendering themselves to lusts and abominations of all kinds.
-Eddward Gibbon
>At its summit was despotism, infinitely strengthened by the union of churchly and secular dominion; in the place of morality it imposed orthodoxy; in the place of unbridled and demoralized expression of the natural instincts, hypocrisy and pretense; in the face of despotism there was developed greed masquerading as poverty, and deep cunning; in religious art and literature there was an incredible stubbornness in the constant repetition of obsolete motifs.
-Jacob Burckhardt
Was the Byzantine Empire really that shit, or was that a western meme.
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>>1672904
It really was a mess.
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>>1672904
>Be Western European
>Destroy Roman Empire
>WE WUZ ROMUNZ N SHIET.
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>19th century idiots fresh off the riches of colonization try and judge polities that survived in more trying times than them.
really makes you think.
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Can anyone identify this? My great grandfather passed away and this was one of the things he gave me.
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>>1672885
That's from nazi germany
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>>1672908
Yeah i got that, but what is it
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>>1672915
A piece of metal. It has things written on it.
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Are we at a 'peak peace' level at the moment?
The world seems to be getting less violent compared to the last couple of thousand years, but with the population growing fast, will the demand for space and food cause it all to go downhill from here?
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We can still look forward to peace through nuclear extermination.
A big violent spike until peace never seen since the neolithic age.
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>>1672837
I don't think so, at least not yet. And population growth is actually slowing.
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>>1672845
I don't think the neolithic was peaceful
We just don't have any written records, but in the late neolithic era we start to find evidence for mass sacrifice.
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If armies would deploy and stare each other for several days in some occasions, why in battles like Agincourt(choke point of open field with forests on both sides) the largest army would treat the forests as walls?
Why not sending 1/3 of your army to enter the forest and going out on the other side?
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>>1672720
the french were very disorganised and were probably being very dumb about it
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>>1672720
In battle line of sight was extremely important. Also a forest is naturally disrupting for movement/communication, a small unit of English would be able to disable a much larger French force.
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>>1672720
Forests reduce mobility.
Other than that in case of Agincourt French sincerely believed that they will stomp the English.
In some battles the forests were used very eagerly though
I'm here to eat nerdz rope and look at funny history me-mes. And I'm all out of nerdz rope
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What's so bad about laissez-faire capitalism? It's why the West became so wealthy and powerful.
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>>1672457
Because it inevitably paves the way for the formation of monopolies and predatory corporations.
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Legal rules provide the foundation for markets where the gains of market participants are correlated with overall social gain.
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>>1672457
It's a fancy way of arguing in favor of oligarchy, or rule by a moneyed elite.
It is the enemy ideology of capitalism as we know it, as the core concept of capitalism is that competition spurs innovation, but if it is not properly regulated then there is nothing from stopping industry heavyweights from colluding together in order to manipulate the market and drive out competitors, because that is a more cost-effective way of staying in business than investing in product innovation or taking on risky new ventures
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The Great Society and the War on Poverty
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Why did it fail? Why did Americans become so disillusioned with liberal capitalism by the late 1960s that they abandoned the Democrats and voted for Nixon and neo-liberal economic policies?
For example, here's a documentary about the Head Start program from the period:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmwFbvWm6v4
Why did this kind of optimism disappear by the end of the decade?
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>>1672437
Because the world went to shit by 1968. The national guard were called into 6 cities simultaneously. Major portions of cities like Baltimore were burned to the ground and to this day have not recovered.
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>>1672450
>Because the world went to shit by 1968.
Yeah but why? And why would that lead to a rejection of the Great Society?
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>>1672587
White people didn't want to give their tax money to rioting black people, which is understandable. It was also understandable for black people to be rioting.
t. White boi whose parents and gf's parents were non racists who fled Miami and Detroit respectively after multiple race riots and huge increases in violent crime.
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Can crusades be justified by Christian faith?
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>>1671983
They can be justified by Islamic aggression
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>>1671985
thats not how they were justified though
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>>1671983
well if the popes word is gods word then yes it can be