Is she right, /his/?
this makes my blood boil
was she caught?
>>1558281
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
>>1558288
Was on r/archaeology or r/egypt the other day so I'm sure some redditors complained.
Middle east suddenly disappears and Rome and Han border each other. Who wins this war?
>>1556273
The himalayas between them
>>1556282
North west China still borders Eastern Rome
This gon' be good. The Han would have superior cavalry (stirrups) and superior missile troops (badass chinese crossbow). Romans would have superior infantry and probably logistics because of muh roads. I don't know who would win, but I'm certain a couple of anons who are VERY strongly convinced about either side will dispute it.
Why doesn't God help starving children?
Everyone has a role in God's Mysterious Plan, theirs is to starve.
Maybe god is punishing those wicked sinful children for willfulling and shamefully choosing to reject his divine grace and mercy.
>>1555395
To bait well-off westeners into charity
Why is the moon landing considered an achievement of all mankind when the project was researched, funded and performed solely by the USA?
>>1554219
because it utilized scientists, scientific knowledge and technology from multiple nations.
Literally not a single achievement or technological advancement in mankind was funded globally.
>>1554219
Everyone was rooting for you.
(Except the Soviets)
What made America have such harsh race relations?
>>1553353
Its obsessed with race to being with. Thats where the problem roots.
racism
>>1553353
Importing blacks to do slave labor. Literally all of the racial problems America has wouldn't exist if there were never any blacks.
>>1553227
>yfw the feudal meme struck another victim
>>1553227
New Russia Party, Putin's political party is an example of contemporary neo-feudalism in practice.
>>1553254
>neo-anything
Into the bin it travels
Can we talk about language death? i.e. when a language loses its remaining speakers and becomes functionally (if not outright) extinct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuone_Udaina
>Dalmatian language
>an independent tongue that had descended from Latin along the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic
>as the cities of the coast became more insular to protect themselves from the threats of the Slavs, Gepids etc. inland continue speaking Latin within the walls gradually shifting to a new language as in Western European romance languages
>gradually cucked out of existence by Slavs and Venetians like most other remnants of Rome
>last speaker dies an ignominious death in an explosion while building a road
>hadn't even spoken the language for 20 years
E el daic. Jon ciairt jomno ci avaja doi feil, e el plé pedlo de louro daic a soa tuota
Remnants of Gothic, the language spoken by the men who sacked Rome in 410 and seized half of the west in the 5th century, may have continued to be spoken in the Crimean peninsula by surviving Goths until the 18th century. I wonder what the last peasant speaking it would have thought, surrounded as he was by Turks, Greeks and Slavs. The same with Cumbric, the language of the men of the Old North in Britain that was conquered by the Anglo-Saxons and survived up to the 12th century in the crags and fens of the northern counties.
Anyone else interested in this? What is your favourite dead language? Can a language really die, or does it just change naturally?
Favorite dead language? Sanskrit or ancient Greek.
There's no inherent value in any language, but having a variety is beneficial.
>>1538341
Manchu is pretty much dying. Only 10 native speakers remain.
>>1538626
Jesus. Another thing destroyed by the fucking Han.
ITT: Interesting historical figures
>pic very related
>>1562178
>literal faggot
>Balkanaboo
What the fuck was wrong with this guy
>>1562183
>had a pet lion
>went to cambridge
>life led to the creation of vampires
>his illegitimate daughter helped invent the first computer
>famous poetry
>handsome
>seduced some turk ruler
>lived in France, appreciating the beauty of the land
>friends with great authors
>joked at Shelley's funeral
Jesus, you could go on and on
Francisco de Miranda, participated in nearly every damn revolution of the 18th century and traveled everywhere in Europe.
Basically, all law literature is a theoretical mass of excuses for coercion by politicians. That's why it's full of inconsistencies that makes it so difficult to use to judge and act on, unlike physics or biology sciences.
Prove me wrong.
>protip
You can't.
because you cant reduce the mind into units.
Do that, and then we can try things the autistic way/
>>1562066
Dumping text about jurisprudence:
The juridical person in private law is conceived as a fact ruled by the legal order. A personality, then, is when the law recognizes the
pursuit of a common purpose by a collection of individuals, as if the pursuit was done by a single person. This emerges when personality is linked with a situation of fact recognized by the juridical norm, as a factor of individualization of the volitive being, and it does not imply that a sole statement defines the personality, because the recognition of the norm is a requirement as well as the will of the being whose norm should be individualized.
>>1562066
Pretty much, ita just practical.
So how similar was "boot camp" or training in ancient Rome to the modern idea of it? I always was curious about this. How long did they train them? Would they scream and mind fuck them? Has there been any real change in the basics of training soldiers in the western world?
It was probably more like: Ypu are now this legionnaire's bitch and he has to teach you right or his Centurion will get on his ass. Oh and you fight in front because you're not as valuable
Show me your war face /his/!
Pretty sure that for most human history if you were a soldier your superiors could beat the fuck out of you, even rape or kill you for any reason they wanted.
Your reward for putting up with this is that if you sacked a city you got to pillage and rape civilians :D
I mean they were the greatest civilization for most of the recorded history so why no colonies, exploration or proactiveness on their part?
Europeans from Greeks to Romans to Germanics to Vikings (that even discovered America in the 10th century AD) to Portugese to Spaniards to Russians to French, Dutch and English, Europeans, it seems were always interested in knowing what is behind the next hill and the next hill while the Chinese were just content to stay this side of the hill and farm.
It makes even less sense if you consider that most colonies happened because of overpopulation in the home country at least up until Spaniards started exploring to find different passage to, ironically, China. Chinese had ridiculous population and have always had ridiculous population they could have established massive colonies on Kamchatka, Alaska, Oregon, California, Indonesia, Philippines etc.
So what gives? Why were they so passive?
>>1561850
They're not as evil as the white man. The white man is the cancer of human history
Vikings discovered a small piece of North America, get your facts right.
>>1561850
u fokin wot m8
just because they did it to slanty-eyed bastards doesn't mean they never colonized anything
The expansion of Vietnam.
How was it that Vietnam was able to push south and obliterate indigenous Cham and Khmer Kingdoms?
>>1561817
It's not obliteration if it takes you 800 years to expand an area smaller than britain.
>>1561817
Superior Chinese genes
>>1561817
Nanyue having anything to do with Vietnam
Was this guy the answer of Italian to French's Voltaire ?
>>1561514
No, he's "It's just a prank, bro" of Renaissance.
>>1561514
How can he be an answer to Voltaire when he lived centuries before?
>>1561520
Both looks smug as fuck.
if communism didn't happen, could Russia have developed like America? Where there's these huge diverse states with amazing cities dotted around the whole country
I mean, it's very different from america, but it's also this huge vast land that's very diverse.
Right now the only 2 places that matter are Moscow and Saint Pete. There's literally no reason to go east
>could a country with 900 years at that time of totalitariam rule develop like the country founded on freedom
lots of regions will also try to break off im sure
>>1561279
Only 2 places that matter today in America are NY and LA.
>>1561397
well I think they are all quite diverse. I really like america, from chicago, to boston, new york, LA, texas. I love them all and I get a different feel. drivng through america was awesome, and in Russia it's a bit depressing that outside of moscow it's just a huge nothing. We have good scenary and resources but the tyrants are swallowing all the money.
>>1561390
if we switched to an American style, would we develop similarly? would we have the resources to?
i remember playing some RTS games back in my childhood and there were these drummer units that were supposed to boost up the morale
was this actually a thing in real wars?
what did their music sound like? i can't find anything on youtube
>>1561259
I might be wrong but I belive that it did, much like the eagle and colours did. However in musket warfare instrumental sounds were more often used to signal commands
>>1561259
Not sure, but the drums and trumpets were used to give orders, like charge, or (specific) march, etc.
>>1561259
Yes, although morale had nothing to do with it. They existed to quickly relay orders via musical cues.