Why is Austrian history and empire so underrated?
It seems like they got overshadowed by Prussia in very late 19th century then Germany in early 20 and completely dropped from view even though they were a main player in European geopolitics and protected Europe from Ottomans for centuries.
Here's a short summeary of Austrian history
>>1585110
Them being on the receiving end of height of Revolutionary France or Frederick the Great exactly because Austria was the foremost German power in Europe does not make them incompetent.
Their cavalry was famous and they could field competent armies that made them able to hold an empire bordered by PLC and Ottomans during their height while also challenging French position and they managed to expand into Balkans against Ottomans in Austria-Turkish war.
>>1585110
Of coarse the time and place, and the attitudes of the local lords, and wartimes and such factored into things. But overall it seems like things weren't so shitty for the humble farmer as everyone likes to say.
At least until the industrial revolution and land enclosure acts and people stopped bathing because they thought is spread plague.
Am I right or wrong?
They had a shitload of feasts and festivals and such.
They typically worked pretty hard, but partied on their days off.
That or spent them in church.
So yeah, if there wasn't a plague, famine, or war going on, it was pretty comfy.
Ever had to till a field in the summer time? Knowing there's no such thing as air conditioning waiting for you when you finish?
>>1585026
more noble a proletariate dependant upon which castle its serving than today at least anyway
Why should the weak fear the strong?
>>1584368
Because you're weak, and I'm strong. Also, Castro didn't do nuffin wrong.
It's the natural order.
>>1584368
>>1586312
Fucking commies
Frederick the Great sucks. Tell me why he is so great, /his/. He plays the flute like a sissy girl.
>>1584014
He had sex with Voltaire, thus performing a mega-cucking of the
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
>>1584014
>>1584014
Its that one asshurt polack again.
>Eastern roman empire: Survives against the powerful persian empire.
>Western roman empire: Is defeated by a bunch of half- naked barbarians.
What went wrong?
>>1579029
Bad leaders.. East had better borders. More money and resources. Etc etc
>half naked barbarians
the Germanic peoples who sacked Rome were professional armies
usually with commanders trained by Romans
Rome didn't have true armies anymore, and the mercenary armies turned on Rome several times
they had good steel and armor
>>1579029
>>Western roman empire: Is defeated by a bunch of half- naked barbarians.
That's so 1 AD of you. In the meantime Germanics made astonishing progress.
The irony is that when archaeologists find something from late 4th and 5th century, it's only a guesswork whether it belonged to a Roman or a German.
Post alt histories.
Divergence of Darkness is pretty fleshed out imo
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/divergences-of-darkness-history-thread.823974/
>>1599296
Here's a rather new map I saved. Basically, the US are transported to a new Earth. It's a new Alternate History Forum fad that I quite enjoy desu
I'll just keep bumping every once in a while
Was he a hero?
>invite peasants to have a feast in a church
>seal it from the outside and burn it
don't know if a hero but he sure knew how to prank and do social experiments
>>1599150
He was a monster, the pain he cause outdid the good he did greatly, his means are not justifiable, killing cripples by burning them alive means being evil.
>>1599153
Yea but come on its dracula, its just a few innocent pranks thats all
Tell me about the russian civil war
funny how soldiers adopted heroic poses for the camera
>>1598442
>Liberal revolution
>"stop war"
>"no lol, offensive"
>terrible casualties
>gommie uprise
>>1598442
Lenin really was a piece of shit coward. He would go to St. Petersburg, get everyone all stirred up, and then run away to his mansion in Finland when shit hit the fan.
Has studying history and philosophy influenced your worldview?
Yeah I'm way more of a fag now
everything I don't like is a spook
I hate Germany
Christians, what are your reasons for believing in God?
I want to return to the faith but the evidence just doesn't seem there.
Every action has some cause. Since time must be finite, there must be some original cause of all actions. That means catholics are right.
>>1596068
God can be a glorified acceptance of History, which strings you resonate or harmonate to is your individual reflection determined by either environmental factors (anything that can be influenced or controlled by another) or internal self combustion of free will (That which can't - often para or tantamounted to 'faith'). Or thus my worldview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3vyFepljl8
Chants of The Knights Templar.
Likewise, Byzantine Chants.
Likewise, Old Roman Chants.
Mozart, Beethoven likewise are honourable mentions ("classical"). Pray to the "God" of that which resonates to your blood, the often bound-construction of your "Soul".
See a personalised self, actualised.
There is no evidence. Even if he exists, he has no impact on the real world. And can you really say something that doesn't influence any part of the universe exists?
You could make a God tulpa, though. Then you'd make God real in your mind, and actually have a close, personal relationship with him, even if he can't impact the real world. Just talk to him and give him lots of attention, and you'll make him real, inside of you.
>"dutch" is the english equivalent of "deutsch"
>originally refers to continental germanic people (at that time, this includes both the germans and the netherlanders)
>netherlands breaks free from the >implying and becomes a seafaring power
>england and the netherlands come into close, frequent contact via competition and trade
>"dutch" now exclusively refers to the netherlanders (sumpfdeutschen)
>"german" replaces the term "dutch" for the remaining continental germanics
Is this more or less accurate?
>>1591975
also that charlemagne and probably clovis were vikings
>>1591975
>"dutch" is the english equivalent of "deutsch"
No, it's a loanword from Middle Dutch/Low German. The native English equivalent is Þēodisc in Old English and would be Thedish if it survived in Modern English.
Everything is else correct though.
>>1591975
DIETSLAND
What is /his/' favourite historical themed pornographic film?
And a better question, are there any that can be considered accurate?
Red Army Rapist II: Berlin
>>1600958
I'm dissapointed anon
Ernst Röhm presents: Sturmbannfuhrer Shemales of the SA
Why has socialism never taken off in a Protestant country?
Protestant work ethic.
It's a Jesuit conspiracy
>>1600110
East Germany, Estonia and Latvia.
Is there a reason why historically white men have contributed so much to human civilization?
>most scientific discoveries
>most inventions
>bravest warriors
>most medical advancements
>explorers and adventurers
>first to sail across the seas and venture into space
>philosophers and greatest artists
>human rights, individual freedoms
>responsible for the best nations and societies on earth
>>1604664
1. DEFINE "WHITE MEN".
2. DEFINE "HUMAN CIVILIZATION".
Considering the eternal revisionist anglo never considered mediterraneans white I'm not so sure of that
>>1604669
European and European American males. Mostly Anglo Saxon.
Human civilization as in Western civilization.
Morality is illogical.
Immorality is edgy roleplaying
>>1600169
So what?
>>1600169
False