Where did the concept of aliens originate?
By aliens, I mean non-supernatural beings who come from other worlds
Does the concept predate American pop culture?
>>1613790
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon
>>1613790
The Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution, when people figured there must be people living on other planets.
There are earlier references to extraterrestrials like the Princess of the Moon and shit but they were definitely supernatural/mythological.
>>1613790
Lucian humorously depicted alien civilizations in his "True History" written in 2nd century AD.
The concept of alien inhabited worlds must have therefore been toyed since times immemorial.
>Yet in the early archaeological record of many regions, there are no traces of war, even in places where we have good recovery of the skeletons and settlements that would have revealed war if it had occurred. In later archaeological remains, signs of war appear, spread, and over time become much more common.
>Humanity’s peaceable deep past contradicts the common notion that war is the result of human nature or an evolved impulse to bond with our own kind and kill members of other groups.
>https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/china/tribal-warfare-and-ethnic-conflict
Why is it there is so little evidence of conflict before civilization? Many people on this board claim that hunter gatherers and agrarian tribal societies engaged in war often for resources, but this is contradictory to the archaeological record.
Could it be that nature is abundant with food and survival was not as difficult before civilization as we are led to believe?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society
>>1613763
It's difficult for skeletons to survive that long.
But there is a lot of evidence, there's a big pit in Germany with men, women and kids who were all killed and deposited at around the same time.
>>1613763
>Why is it there is so little evidence of conflict before civilization?
There isn't. You can go look up how "uncontacted" tribal societies NOW act and how violent they are towards each other. It's just that these societies are, somewhat necessarily, extremely small. Pre-agricultural populations are hard to keep at high levels. There isn't a lot of archeological evidence of anything they do, because there just isn't that much to work with, and you often have to create huge amounts of speculation from a few stone tools.
>>1613763
Foraging populations probably don't necessarily aim to kill and dominate as they are not locked into the region as agrarian peoples are, one simply needs to drive the other off and away. This at most would lead to small and scattered skirmishes of small fighters, likely killing only a few enemy at any given spot.
Ask a guy who changed from a history degree in a good university to an arts degree in an obscure comunity college anything
>>1613685
/academia/general?
I'm going to study geology? Anyone else here have any experience in the field?
Also could someone explain how the fuck I'm suppose to round significant numbers?
>>1613695
Yeah, i guess this could be an academia general.
I know some people that study geology. Some of them collaborate with archeologists, others do research but the majority goes for oil companies for the big bucks
>>1613685
Why would you do that?
And what sort of art degree is that?
Sup /his/syfits, can we talk about Georgism, aka, the Land Value Tax? It seems an eminently sensible suggestion that would solve many of the problems with our current tax system, but it seems to be completely off the political agenda and no-one ever so much as mentions it.
Pros:
Landlordism becomes impossible, because the tax on your land would equal the rent you seek from it. This would free up gigantic amounts of capital and liberate people from the crushing grind of working just to pay the rent to the landlord who sits on his ass all day counting his shekels.
LVT is simple to calculate and impossible to evade.
Taxes raised via this method are tied to the locality they were raised in, meaning tax revenues will directly aid the communities that pay them the most.
Cons:
Landlords won't like it.
Any thoughts?
http://www.landvaluetax.org/what-is-lvt/
>>1613646
did somebody say anthropophagi thread?
>>1613777
i got you covered senpai, also checked.
>The more numerous army flees because their leader is killed.
Is this realistic?
Depends on situation.
If for example a pretender is killed early on and his troops come to know it, there's really no reason to fight anymore is there?
>>1613635
This. You, or your lord, fight for someone trying to be king against the sitting king.
If your guy is dead what are you fighting for?
Or your a peasant and your lord drafts you to fight some people you don't know or care about 10 counties over. If he dies why wouldn't try to get home as quickly and safely as possible.
>>1613635
There is. Current king needs to be killed or else he will fuck you up for treason.
>the socratic dialogues
Nobody really gets angry in the dialogues, though. They're more like infomercial audience members.
>>1613468
>are you SICK AND TIRED of not being able to define arete?
>>1613459
meh, the Eleatic stranger was alright.
Also, Sophists are good lads, philosophers were just salty Sophists were getting all the dough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwCaZaSon9A&t=3039s
what was your reaction when you realized everything you were taught was wrong?
>>1613383
I don't care about history.
>>1613383
>taking a strictly literal interpretation of sources, unintergrated
>muh /his/ degree
>sumdum dew eet phoarrr meeeeeeee
Mind=blown
>>1613365
I don't get it
>>1613365
>>1613371
WHAT THE HEEEEEEEEELL
??????
Anyone with common sense hates the english
Anyone with common sense hates the scottish
>>1613299
romanized south nordic north
Was it a just war?
And why did it really happen?
The Eternal Anglo strikes again
>>1613290
For the French it was.
>Võ Nguyên Giáp (25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a General in the Vietnam People's Army and a politician. Giap is considered one of the greatest military strategists of the 20th century
Hmmmmmmmmmmm
Do you even military history
That guy fought Japan, France, China, United States, South Vietnam with mostly peasants and outdated weaponry, and still succeeded, he's the ultimate example of guerilla warfare.
If he was North Vietnamese then that title was definitely deserved.
>>1613211
Maybe someday when the Vietnam War is further in the past, and people are less butthurt about it, this will be more widely acknowledged.
Who was the first archetypal fedora in history, /his/?
You'd have to define it first, the meaning has been severely diluted and made into "anyone who disagrees with me" just like every old meme does. Otherwise a ton of retards are going to just flood you with people they don't like.
>>1613135
>archetypal
Anon, do I really have to?
How the fuck do you build something like this with basically no technology?
Carefully
A fucking pile of rocks.
Ancient people weren't idiots
Extremely lacking in complex accumulated knowledge, but not idiots
What other evidence do we need?
>>1612947
Yeah, cause after '90, people were allowed to leave, and many did after communism left that country completely fucked up. The same happened to most other countries in the region. The only reason so many people didn't leave before the fall of Communism was that they had fences all along the borders with Western Europe and people who tried to flee were shot.
Rate it.
boring garbage / 10
>>1612881
it's pretty messy but a lot better than what i could do