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So I've seen two distinct narratives concerning life in the middle ages (I'm talking 11th to 14th century specifically). Of course the common view is that the middle ages were the fucking worst, that harvests were poor and farming technology made little progress from antiquity due to religious beliefs. Peasant work was back-breaking, hygiene was poor and famines were frequent. But a revisionist narrative goes that medieval people had holidays almost a third of the year, they actually worked many less hours than we do today, and the ''dark ages'' is an enlightenment myth.
tl;dr the middle ages, absolutely shitty or less shitty than usually thought?
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middle ages didn't exist
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>>1632595
Every historical categorization is ultimately artificial, and there is debate as to when the medieval period would have begun and ended, but how about we talk about the timespan specifically gave, you fucking pedant.
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>>1632606
no, i literally meant that the said timespan didn't exist. it's forged to history books centuries later to mark their own superiority.
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Who are some historical persons that we can retrospectively diagnose as autistic?
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>>1632534
hitler - on a high dose of retard instead of smoking the kush'
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>>1632534
napoleon was pretty socially retarded
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Julian the Apostate is basically a robot that managed to become emperor.
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This quote sums up /his/ perfectly...
Lao Tsu — 'Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.'
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>>1632514
True that
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>>1632514
why don't those who know speak
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>>1632528
No point, it gets drowned out by all the bullshit.
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why did life expectancy in China double from 35 years old in 1949 to 63 in 1975?
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>>1632481
Niggas stopped dying from all the wars and famine.
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anyone have a rebuttal?
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>>1632481
Everyone that was liable to die early was removed from existance.
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Why is English the only Latin alphabet language that does not use diacritics?
Are the English the true successors to Roman civilization?
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I can think of several English words that use diacritics.
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>>1632511
I came here to post this, but then I realized they were all loanwords.
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no, it's just that anglos are too stupid to understand more complex language/grammar.
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Why did Christian and Catholic empires never bother taking over Jerusalem? Why did they allow the Muslims to take control over it in history?
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weak bait
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>>1632482
explain
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>>1632465
They tried
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What's the difference between an intellectual and a pseudo-intellectual? How do I avoid being a pseudo-intellectual?
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It's really the same thing, no joke. Embrace being a philistine, intellectualism is for faggots
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>>1632248
This. Intelectualls are just dumbos in denial
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>>1632226
pseudo-intellectuals are like your girlfriends and you blow air up their ass because they let you tongue it
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[RULES OF NATURE]
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>>1632163
I wish Leviathan would bring back the primordial waters and envelope the world in chaos
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>>1632191
I wish someone would rewrite this book without appealing to christianity all the time as a crutch.
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Why did Jews get universally hate ?
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That's only 12 people.
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>>1631911
>12 most famous jew haters
FTFY
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>>1631911
There's a handful more.
Why did historians run out of good names to give wars after WW1?
>the Great War
Pretty dope
>world war 2
Come on, be creative
>the banana wars
Jesus Christ
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>>1631833
>Banana Wars
What in the actual fuck were they thinking?
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mostly because we now identify wars by the region they were primarily fought in. The Vietnam War, The Korean War, the Iran-Iraq War, the Biafra War, the Yugoslav Wars, and so on.
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There were many "great wars" in the past because of lack of historians and shortsightedness of human memories.
>banana wars
Because banana industry/companies had high stakes in national politics.
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When, in the last 300 years, has the Anglo ever lost?
I ask you, when has the Anglo-Saxon breed suffered a humiliatiom akin to that which they have wrought on all the colored peoples of the world?
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1939-1941.
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>>1631782
Suez?
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Around 2013 when white britons became a minority in their own capital city.
Tell me about the 3rd Roman Empire and its impact on modern civilization
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>>1631690
Giving us some white characters to play as in Battlefield 1.
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>>1631690
It was where David Ben-Gurion, the father of Israel, grew up and was educated
G-d Bless Turkey
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>>1631690
Balkan and Turkish butthurt in YouTube comment section. It's free entertainment, like a continuous and unlimited episode of an animal documentary.
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What did pagan religions think of each other, or Christianity?
Did Roman pagans ever discuss the aspects of the faiths of Germanics, Celts and other neighbors not worshiping the Roman/Greek Pantheon?
Specifically thinking about Polytheistic paganism in Europe or around the Mediterranean.
General paganism thread I suppose
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Pagans mostly just equated their gods with foreign gods, and added whatever didn't fit.
Religious discussion among pagans was more philosophical. Paganism was a folk religion, not a scholarly one like Judaism was, that involved religious texts and years of study of them. Paganism's intellectual aspect came from independent philosophical schools that, while often adhering the religions, where actually a process completely and utterly divorced from the worship, which was mostly a political dimension.
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>>1631534
Romans were fond of Eastern cults, Egyptian particularly. Isis was very popular, Mithras was another big one. I can't think of the Romans picking up any Celtic or Germanic gods-- they definitely didn't the Celtic faith, burnt down sacred forests in Britain IIRC. Most people weren't terribly fond of Christians, but at the same time the persecutions were greatly exaggerated.
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>>1633167
Problem about christians is that they were quite pussified when compared to the pagan religions
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what the fuck is with all the good russian leaders being midgets and all the shit ones lanklets
>Stalin 5' 4"
>Kruschev 5' 3"
>Brezhnev 5' 8"
>Putin 5' 7"
>Gorbachev 5' 9"
>Yeltsin 6' 2"
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>good
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>>1631487
More blood flowing to the brain.
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>Stalin
>good
Europe was great before christianity. Europe was great after christianity, when the renaissance replaced christian values with pagan values.
While christianity was dominant in that middle period however, Europe was at a low point of its existence. This is an undeniable fact.
Semantic debates about what to call the period, and evidence that it wasn't all bad, does not change the simple fact that it was the nadir of European civilisation.
In fact there have been no successful christian nations in terms of accomplishments, artistic, technological, financial, or otherwise. islam, at least, had a golden age.
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>What is the 12th century renaissance
It was the start of the renaissance cut short by the plague
Medieval Europe was a comparative backwater to the rest of the world yes but you can't blame Christianity, blame the fall of Rome.
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The Renaissance was heavily funded by religion. Also it's opening work is often considered the Divine Comedy.
I think your are mistaking rampant clerical corruption (something that was going on long, long before the Renaissance) with some change in values. Massive upheaval of values didn't occur until the Reformation.
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>>1631478
>Europe was great before christianity.
You mean that empire that had 1/3 of its landmass in Africa and 1/3 in Asia? Or the Greeks where every second important philosopher or sage came from Ionia in Asia Minor.