Which Empire was the greatest?
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>>1654700
This one tbqh.
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>>1654746
>no Channel islands
What made societies like Mongols, Vikings, Maori uber macho?
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>>1654569
PNG have the patrician barbarians. Still fighting to this day.
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>>1654569
Inherent savagery.
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Not being fucking millennials.
Did Cromwell do more harm or good to England?
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>>1654558
Harm
t. royalist cavalier
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>>1654558
i would say he did more good the new model army didnt take shit from nobody
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Good. If not for Cromwell there would've been a French Revolution 2.0 in the 18th century. Cromwell wasn't that bad, and he helped form what we know as England today. He was more English than the King.
What civilization and when had the most relative power over the world?
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Post Cold War America.
Alexander the Great, Hadrian and so on did not have much influence on Eastern Asia or the Americas.
The Mongols didn't have a large influence on Western Europe or the Americas and the Japanese gave them the middle finger.
Post Cold War America had no rivals.
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>>1654544
Over the entire world? America in the 90's. Britain is the only other entity to ever have even vaguely similar levels of global authority
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The map looks like this because the Catholics voted for the Centre Party, which joined the Nazis in passing the Enabling Act that handed power to Hitler, not because Catholics could see Hitler for what he was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Party_(Germany)
Hitler's speech on the occasion of that act's passage included nods to the Catholic support:
>The struggle against the materialistic ideology and for the erection of a true people's community (Volksgemeinschaft) serves as much the interests of the German nation as of our Christian faith. ...The national Government, seeing in Christianity the unshakable foundation of the moral and ethical life of our people, attaches utmost importance to the cultivation and maintenance of the friendliest relations with the Holy See. ...The rights of the churches will not be curtailed; their position in relation to the State will not be changed.
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>>1654460
Why didn't they just vote Nazi in the first place then?
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t. either atheist nu-male or """""""Catholic""""""" deus vult LARPer from /pol/
>Pius XI watched the rising tide of totalitarianism with alarm and delivered three papal encyclicals challenging the new creeds: against Italian Fascism, "Non abbiamo bisogno" (1931; 'We do not need (to acquaint you)'); against Nazism, "Mit brennender Sorge" (1937; 'With deep concern') and against atheist communism, "Divini redemptoris" (1937; 'Divine Redeemer'). He also challenged the extremist nationalism of the Action Française movement and anti-semitism in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XI#International_relations
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>>1654705
Because the Center party catered to Catholics specifically.
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>Tojo wanted to keep Western presence out of Asia
>Bin Laden and the like want to keep America and it's interests out of the Middle-East.
Really, when will America stop?
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>seriously, why does america keep reacting whenever we bomb their shit?
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>>1654469
>EVERYONE IS ATTACKING US FOR NO REASON!!
>WHY CAN'T THEY LEAVE US ALONE!!!
Ye xD
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>>1654418
>Really, when will America stop?
November.
His Divine Grace, Donald I will build the wall, and that will be the end of America's involvement in international affairs.
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If Native Americans are Asians who crossed the Behring strait then why are them so backwards, when Asians are doing much better?
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>>1654353
More inbreeding because of a smaller population. Abundance of food, water and other resources didn't require them to rapidly increase technology. Lower IQ + far enough distance from other tribes + enough food and water to sustain your population = no need to develop.
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>>1654381
that's until now though. They have no excuses for not developing anymore
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Alright
Firstly, Asia is a fucking huge place with some of the biggest and most diverse cultures in the world. Secondly, what is the definition for "doing much better"? You mean Native Americans from 400 years ago weren't as technologically advanced as Japanese and Chinese today? Most of Asia is was still very primitive even 60 years ago. A lot of them still are right now. Failing that, do you think there aren't Siberian tribes that still live mostly isolated and traditionally?
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How did ancient civilizations, that were so prosperous, end up in the state they are in today?
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Greece was once considered one of the greatest civilizations around. They produced amazing literature and had some of the most revered philosophers of all time. Then they had a downfall that they never really recovered from, and now in current day it is in economic chaos and is no longer even close to a frontrunner in terms of how advanced it is as a society. I wonder the same thing regarding Egypt as well.
Same goes for the civilizations under the Islamic golden age. They were very advanced and deeply valued science and knowledge. Now, many of these places are in constant war with eschother, some have not advanced at all and some of the countries that were under this golden age can even be seen as backwards and stuck in the past.
Why is it that these once prosperous civilizations that produced such amazing thinkers, ideas, and technology, are today, so far behind?
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>>1654341
In reference to Greece, after the death of Alexander they couldn't really sustain such a vast army and the money coming in from the east had been very limited, which pretty much laid the foundations for them to get BTFO'd by Rome later on. Greece over the course of history has been raped several times and never really got to pick itself back up, I'd say the same for Persia. It's a shame that so many of the civilizations of the past have been inherited by incompetent and corrupt leaders. Pre-Islam, the middle east and south Asia were the places to be. The richest parts of the world, vibrant and colorful with immense amounts of wealth and disciplined armies. Greece was on par with Persia (obviously not in terms of land capacity). It hurts desu. It really does.
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>>1654372
>Pre-Islam, the middle east and south Asia were the places to be.
Post-Islam was pretty good too for a while, with thinkers like Avicenna, Biruni, Khwarizmi, ibn al-Nafs, al-Razi, et al
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>>1654341
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSQozWP-rM
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At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
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>>1654255
But where does the player controlling the chess armies go?
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Shitty metaphor proves nothing. It remains a more pleasurable experience to be rich/powerful and comfortable than the opposite.
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>>1654255
the end of the game is irrelevant. What happens in the game is of much greater importance.
so fuck you and your box
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Is China the mother culture of all other East Asian cultures?
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>>1654241
Sorta, but China wasn't a united country yet when the other East Asian cultures split off from them.
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>>1654241
Yes. East Asian civilization started in china, in the Hueng He river valley.
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>>1654241
Kind of but not in the same way that Rome is the father of the west.
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Other than cost, was there any advantage a spear had over a poleaxe?
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>>1654224
Well if we're going to apply some common sense here, I'm guessing it was less heavier (as it didn't have as much metal on top) and therefore better at what it does, which is penetration, at a faster rate than a halberd.
Anyone can correct me on this if I'm wrong, I'm just jabbing this question for the sake of answering his question.
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>>1654224
spears a longer, a pole axe requires more room between people to be used to its maximum advantage. In terms of concentration of force the spear is superior.
except for shock actions and allowing a small group to hold back a larger one the spear holds more advantages for formation combat
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What kind of combat would someone want a poleaxe or halberd over a spear? I'm not a weapons expert, but it looks like OP's picture would thrust a lot slower than an average spear
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Was he right?
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he was cute
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Neo-keynesian for life.
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>>1654045
>what is automation
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What's the deal /his/?
Is it possible to know when something is truth? What is truth anyways? pls help. Pic unrelated
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>>1654024
pilate pls
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>>1654024
>What is truth anyways?
That's a good fucking question. One could say that truth is that which is factually correct, but I don't feel that says much, as you now have to answer what is factually correct, and I suspect it would be tantamount to saying "truth is that which is truthful." You could say truth is that which is beautiful, but that denies the possibility that truth can be ugly. I personally suspect truth may not actually exist at all, and is simply that which we believe to be true.
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https://(eight)ch.net/christian/res/306685.html
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Yes, yes, well done england, well done england!
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>>1654022
HOWEVER
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Yes, yes, well done england, well done england!
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HOWEVER
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Hello /his/ I have a question pertaining to the battle of Stalingrad, and from a wider frame to probably most if not all urban warfare.
What was the battle of Stalingrad about, really?
I mean we know it was an important city, an industrial powerhouse for the USSR. But beyond that, what importance did it have? Why did it become the place for one of the largest battles in the entire war? Why did both sides struggle so much over its control? It lost its practical value in the form of any economic output already so why did both sides keep funneling resources and men into that deathpit? All the street house to house fighting for what? There was no building in that city with a roof standing. It was all just ruins and rubble. And desperate civilians hiding and surviving. What did gaining yet another useless street in this city give to any side?
Yes, if you capture a tactically important building you can gain an advantage and use it to pressure the enemy or push him back. But at that point, why would anyone really want to fight for the city? Why would anyone defend it or waste resources on its capture?
Pic related is Pavlovs house. Number 6. The "Russian fortress" that the Germans couldn't take despite all their attempts.
Look at the image. Take a good look. What importance did the house actually have? A good view, yes. But of what, ruins? Fields? So if you gain the house, you control its surroundings. Hooray? Now what?
And to top it off, ultimately, despite all of the German efforts to capture the city and of all the fighting that occurred, the battle was lost not due to what occurred inside the city, but by a Russian breakthrough, ironically a thousand miles away from the battle. What a waste.
Anyone care to explain what was the point of it all? Why did a city remain as an important priority way beyond its usefulness?
The first one to tell me it had anything to do with the name of the city is going to die in their sleep tonight.
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>>1653919
Railroads and the Volga river. Also cut off oilfields in the south
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>>1653919
Here have a look at the bigger scenery surrounding the Pavlovs house.
This is the "important sector" the building was defending. Is this a joke? Important for what? Landing men on the shores? Why would you even want to bother with landing men to fight for that shit?
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Propaganda reasons. The city is named after Stalin afterall. Not to mention its the gateway to the oil fields of Astrakhan and the Caucasus