What is your favorite historic book that you own or have read?
>>1653868
The Prince by Machiavelli.
>>1653868
Admiral Horthy's memoirs. It's a window into a long-dead era, and an important source of information for a part of the war that's largely ignored in the west.
Plutarch Parralel Lives
>in Louis the XIV courts, they had no toilets
>people were free to shit on the floor wherever they felt like
>King Louis himself had a chamberpot, he would often meet guests while defecating into it. It was considered a great honor to be greeted by the king sitting on his "throne".
>they sat aside to store all the feces cleaned up from the rest of the palace
>once this room became so full that the ceiling broke down and all the content fell into the level below
>enemas were also a popular way to treat illnesses in his court, female courtiers would sometimes instruct their servants to publicly apply enemas to them
Tell me again how the present is degenerate and we are regressing from some great past.
French nobles have literally never not been "degenerate", especially the Bourbons.
Still, most people who nostalgia over the past have no idea what they were in for.
>>1653769
Thank god for the revolution
I know it was two Kings down the line but there is no reason for this shit
Mostly nostalgia
Like how losers in the city think the countryside is some arcadian utopia where we'd accept their autism
Is Maoism just Stalinism with peasants? What policies do Maoists really want and has Maoism actually worked well before (no Cultural Revolution our Great Leap Forward)?
How is Maoism good and why do Maoists want the rednecks in America to be the revolutionary class?
Where has Maoism worked and will it work in the West? Do you think it's worse or better than capitalism?
>>1653638
>Is Maoism just Stalinism with peasants?
Yeah basically
>>1653793
Is Maoism bad?
>>1653638
It has a lot more propaganda and a love of destruction
How good of a job did Dark Souls do with accurate armor? What is this based off of?
>>1653586
"Accurate" how? Like, the models?
Better than most, not as good as proper autism sims.
Only a few look realistic the rest are silly, and the way the armor works is unrealistic.
This is realistic in its visuals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC0F_I5zyOg
>>1653586
100% scientifically accurate.
Hello /his/, lately I have been quite interested in the shared history of Eurasia, specifically the Indo-Europeans. Now there have been some threads that discussed the influence of these steppe people and there have been several studies brought up.
What I've learned so far was that one of the first off-shoots of the Proto-Indo European people were the Yamna people. According to wikipedia they had dark hair and eyes, with light skin and were quite tall on average.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamna_culture#Physical_characteristics
There are several studies that show up that it is Northern Europeans, the people with the highest amount of fair skin and eyes have the most admixture of the Yamna people. Someone in the threads said that the depigmentation was actually already occuring in the neolithic farmer populations and was therefore, more or less native to the European farmers.
Now here comes the confusing part. I have also been reading up on the Tocharians and the early Iranians. Now according to wikipedia these people however were quite depigmentated.
"Many of the mummies have been found in very good condition, owing to the dryness of the desert and the desiccation it produced in the corpses. The mummies share many typical Europoid body features (elongated bodies, angular faces, recessed eyes), and many of them have their hair physically intact, ranging in color from blond to red to deep brown, and generally long, curly and braided.".
My question is. If the Yamna were dark haired and eyed, and they supposedly got lighter features from the people they invaded. How did other early off-shoots like the Tocharians who lived in China obtain these features?
>>1653563
"INDOEUROPEAN" IS A LINGUONYM, NOT A RACIONYM, NOR AN ETHNONYM.
>>1653571
Eastern-European steppe admixture if you like then.
Light eyes were present already in in Hunter-gatherers of Europe even prior the spread of Indo-Europeans, but those hunter-gatherers had considerably darker skin.
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>>1653488
>>1653498
these two were for the ladies id assume? They have such tame taste,whoever they were!
>>1653498
The guy who asked for this was adamant i do it, so here you go friend.
Does the ship of Theseus at some point cease to be the ship of Theseus, or does it not?
>>1653452
If it does, then why does it?
>>1653424
It is a ship of Theseus, but not the ship he left with.
No.
Continuity is what matters.
What's the point of castles? Can't you just go around them?
>>1653354
Has no changed since the last thread.
>>1653360
Why do you assume everyone lurks as much as you?
>leaving pockets of fortified enemy strongholds between your supply line and armies
HURRDURRR. Castles were the thing in medieval Europe, at least in England and the Anglo-Saxon states. There's a reason why building them without the kings permit was illegal and why feudal lords were so powerful. If you had a castle = you had so much leverage over your feudal lord (because rebellion is so much easier) Before siege craft became advanced enough you essentially had to starve the castle out, which is a logistical nightmare
A friend sent me a video of a competition between a scythe and a push mower, now I'm stuck on watching videos of people cutting grass and wheat. I don't know why, but I really like the simplicity and efficiency of older tools like this.
Are there any historical tools you like that aren't used much, but still do their job perfectly well?
Some people are fucked up by historians, but in my opinion, this guy is the perfect example of the opposite. He is one of the most beloved national heroes in Brazil.
For instance, he is credited for his efforts to "end slavery"... however, Brazil was literally the LAST country in the western world to abolish it. The guy actually withheld slavery as long as he could! Slavery in Brazil was as massive (if not worse) as in the US.
Let's not even talk about the fact that Brazil was a monarchy back then, when most independent American nations were becoming republics. Furthermore, Pedro II was a heir for the Portuguese empire! How does that help for the newly attained independence of Brazil?
Among other things, he completely fucked up Paraguay in a war that followed absolutely no chivalry code. Proportionally, it was the war that killed the most of a country's population in history. He kind of screwed Uruguay as well, but that was overshadowed by Paraguay.
He indebted the country to militarize it, but was not even capable of controlling it, he was taken out by a military coup eventually. He didn't even live his last days in Brazil, he returned to Europe and was eventually buried among European royals.
Petista pls go
Slavery was maintained for so long precisely because D. Pedro had instituted a constitutional monarchy and relinquished absolute power, and this power into into the hands of the only people learned and qualified enough to actually run the country, wealthy aristocrats who didn't care for the abolition movement.
So what if it was a monarchy, does that make it automatically bad? Remaining a monarchy actually had Brazil emerge as a stable power with a clear political hierarchy and not a war-torn land like most of the rest of South America, which fell into internal conflict between the various freed states as well as civil war inside those states. Brazil meanwhile was mostly peaceful except for a few small rebellions and Guerra dos Farrapos. Also, a political union between Brazil and Portugal, where both states were united into a single polity and not merely a case of Portugal ruling over Brazil would have been beneficial to both parties.
I will not deny that there were excesses in Paraguay, but Paraguay at the time was the North Korea of the 1800s, and they started a war for absolutely no reason against our neighbors. If we had done nothing and Paraguay had won, we would have been their next target.
He was usurped by a traitor who openly followed positivism that described the best form of government as a dictatorship. Under Deodoro the nation was much less free and democratic than it had been as a monarchy, and the republican leaders of that early period were absolutely unfit for governing, and we are still reeling from the instability they caused by deposing the Emperor. And the only reason he didn't live the rest of his life in Brazil was because he didn't want to plunge the country into civil war, and because he honestly thought that republicanism would be best for his country, and because of that you could certainly say that he was a fool who doomed us all.
>>1653338
Paraguay had already invaded Brazil, in fact.
>>1653259
Vete a tu cama, Francisco Solano Lopez.
Who was in the wrong here?
>>1652998
The one who started the war and then couldn't stop meddling in it.
>>1652998
They were both incompetent shitheads, to be honest.
>>1652998
stalin because hitlers coat
Discuss.
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hahahaha that's not a real place you retard, that's from Assassin's Creed, kys idiot
>>1652944
>video games
Let's have a thought experiment.
Let's say aliens exist and are smart enough to travel intergalactically. What purpose would they have to visit earth?
Here are some things they wouldent be here for.
>As a resource
Their are so many planets out there that don't have life but also all of our mineral resources that picking the one with biological formations is dumb. We'd be more valuable alive then dead.
Here are some reasons why they might
>they are hedonists
They are traveling the universe to experience any and every cardnel pleasure they can and possibly attempting to obtain new ones. What if this race never has the ability to hear and found a race of musical professionals?
>they're cruel
Unlikey since a race like this would probably kill itself before ever landing of their lunar equivalent, but who knows.
>They're diplomats
They are here to talk or study us. They may not want us a part of whatever orginization they are apart of but they came to let us know they are here.
>>1652904
>Our planet is one of the rare ones with intelligent life inside the borders of their galactic empire, and they are trying to subtly increase our technological and moral potential, projecting to let us join their empire and make us their allies
It might amuse them to do so
How about 'why the fuck not'
If there's an item in a large, otherwise empty room, you go check it out for no particular reason.
In medieval times and before was fat actually considered attractive or just seen as a benefit for the relationship?
As in was it attractive in the sense of "damn I wanna get me a pizza dat ass"
Or was it seen as "you are fat and therefor must have money which could benefit me and my family"
Propaganda from fat feminists based on Ruben's habbit of being a chubby chaser.
>>1652830
Me left from right-most.
>>1652810
In some asian cultures being fat was considered to be a sign of wealth/goodness, some cultures exaggerating this to the point of force feeding their women to make them as fat as possible
What's going to happen to the ticking time bomb known as North Korea? Will the Koreas merge in our lifetime?
>>1652208
They're not a ticking time bomb. Their military is somewhat strong, while their resources are non-existent. No one is ever going to bother attacking them, because what's the point. It would be a tedious war without any payoff. And North Korea is never going to attack anyone because they know they would be obliterated in the long run. They have no functioning long range missiles or any nuclear warheads so they don't pose a threat to anyone but South Korea.
Reddit has this narrative that every time they're making a lot of noise and declaring war once again, it's their way of begging for food donations without losing face but that's a half truth. It's rather their way of telling people that soon they won't have anything more to lose because they'll cease to function as a state because everyone is starving and so they might as well go out with a bang.
Anyway, nothing is going to happen unless there's a bigger conflict in the area. No one is actually interested in North Korea.
>>1652270
This is true.
For the most part, the countries surrounding it stand to lose more than they'd gain if North Korea were to either implode or explode. China really doesn't want a country with US military bases right on their border, and South Korea, despite their talk of being "one people" doesn't want to deal with the huge humanitarian crisis that would insue were they to reunify. And the counties that have the power to affect change in the region (the US and Russia) don't want to pass of China. So with the way things are, North Korea probably isn't going anywhere anytime soon
>>1652270
>>1652321
What are the chances of an internal coup in North Korea though? I know it is very difficult to come up with a reasonable answer on that due to the lack of information on the inner circles of the north korean government, but I remember that there were rumours of a coupe a couple of years ago.