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Ancient Civilization General /acg/ 2017-08-18 10:43:45 Post No.3260100
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2017-08-18 10:43:45
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Post anything related to ancient civilizations here. Tell me about your favorite bronze age civilizations, /his/.
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I like the Mycenaean civilization. Greeks and romans are overrated.
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Elam is very underrated.
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>>3260117
Myceneans were Greek anon...
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Donate your disposable income to charity.
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>>3260096
Make me loser.
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>>3260271
Stop eating animals
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>>3260391
I already have you total asshole
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Why did the ancient societies make statues with such small dicks?
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>>3260068
They were big guys.
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thats normal size flaccid
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>>3260071
>He doesn't know
Imagine being Cleopatra's ototo (younger brother).
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Incest is Wincest
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>>3260060
*otouto you weeb fuck
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>>3260060
Who?
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Okay /his/ I recently read about Doctors in the middle ages basically putting holes in their patients head and these people still living fine with it. Some Doctor even said he removed a tumor from his patients brain with this method. So I`m interested what did Doctors generally do to cure you when you got sick.
picture unrelated
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>>3259962
>prayer alone was historically more effective than medieval medicine because placebo is more effective than placebo plus bleeding you dry
really makes you think
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>>3259962
>generally do to cure you when you got sick.
Sick is bad, wounded is better, they had competent wound doctors at the time to cure cuts and broken bones.
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>>3259993
Don`t forget praying is also a placebo in itself due to it giving you hope and the feeling of not being alone with your sickness wich has been "proven" to make people get less sick and heal faster from their illness.
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OMAE WA MO SHINDEYRU
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NANI!?
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REEEEEEE NAPPY DID NOTHING WRONG FRANCE LOST DUE TO PARLIAMENT REEEEEEEEE CRYPTO JACOBINS GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY EMPIRE
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>>3259952
Here's a good article on the state of the French army toward 1870.
https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2016/06/15/french-army-reform-towards-1870/amp/
Post more articles on l'Empereur.
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This guy frankly used words like Greeks and Greek Empire to call Byzantines and their state in his work "The Story of Civilization".
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>>3259869
Your point being?
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>>3259869
Why btfo?
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Historiographically you can call it whatever you want. You can call it the Wacky Porphyrogennetos Playhouse if you like. That won't change the fact that when it was actually around it was known as the Roman Empire.
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Did he deserve it?
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>>3259707
Literally who?
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>>3259713
does this refresh your memory
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>>3259717
oh that guy, no hindenberg didn't deserve anything bad. he was one of the only good g*rmans as far as I'm concerned.
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is it true that had Skanderbeg not periodically shielded western europe from across the adriatic from ottoman conquests, the renaissance in Italy would have never taken place?
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>>3259660
No, its not.
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>>3259663
why
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>>3259672
He doesn't have to explain shit. You pushed forth a theory, you explain it.
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How did the Leningrad siege take three years?
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>>3259558
I'm not sure what you are implying but the german deliberatly let the civilians die by making a siege instead of storming the city.
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The Soviets were willing to defend the place tooth and nail, the Germans only had enough troops in the North to siege it instead of fully assault it (they were more busy with Moscow, Stalingrad, etc.), and the Soviets just weren't going to surrender to the sieging forces either.
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Germans didnt have enough resources to invest in fully capturing it
Russia was preoccupied in driving out the axis elsewhere and also with the Finns near Karelia
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Was the first World War a true total war? Or was only the Second World War a true total war?
On a global scale that is
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>>3259491
Both. Bigger? WW2
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>>3259491
Total war is just when a nation as a whole (industry, agriculture, people, media, etc.) are all mobilized for the war effort. Both world wars are an excellent example of it.
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>>3259539
Did the U.S. go into total war mode during WW1?
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ITT: /his/ punching bags
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More like Europe's punching bag until the 20th century (when it became America's)
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America's punching bag
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So I've been doing some reading up on the early Christian sects and briskly reading over the Gnostic stuff, it's left me slightly confused. I don't really see threads too often about this, so I don't know how many religion buffs are floating around.
Is there a gnostic "canon"? Does it include all the complete books in the Nag Hammadi Codex, or just a select few? This goes for the OT/NT as well -- books like Wisdom of Solomon and 1 Enoch are in or out? Or does it vary?
Is there a clear separation between Sophia and the concept of the Holy Ghost, or are they one and the same?
If the "hidden God" of the NT is good and the Demiurge ("LORD" of the OT) is bad, then wouldn't the narrative of Christ's death and resurrection fit in perfectly with the Gnostic narratives? I'm not entirely sure of how he fits in both the OT and NT narratives of the Gnostic tradition(s).
Thanks in advance for the answers.
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>>3259417
There aren't any genuine gnostics left because the lineages that Gnosticism require no longer exist. Reading PDFs about Gnosticism on the internet does not make you gnostic.
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>>3259751
>no longer exist
More like exterminated. At least reading Nag Hammadi helps you understand oh the gnostics
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>>3259825
The problem is like with every religious tradition, there would have been an oral tradition based on a master-student lineage, that accompanies the textual tradition. Which no longer reliably exists
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roman emperor
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roman emperor
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>>3259337
>roman EMPEROR
>KING of the romans
Pick one, actually don't because they're both bullshit titles
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Chinese Emperor.
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Does every culture have names?
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>>3259322
I think so?
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I also think so.
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Even the dolphins do it.