or is it outdated now?
It's best used to understand the way in which he shapes the historical weltanschauung of the 1800s.
Read it not to actually learn, but to get a feel for the paradigm.
And yes, contrarian jerkoffs, I am using those words correctly.
>>1533204
Only Christian apologists/revisionists dislike Gibbon and his near totally credible work "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". There's literally not a single argument I've seen them use besides "muh snowniggers". Granted that Germanic barbarians had a role to play in Romes fall, the underlying cause was still Christianity.
>>1533252
Do you still wear pantaloons and tricorns, too?
ITT: post pics about people of the olden days having fun and goofing around
>>1533139
All of them probably died brutally
>>1533146
Don't we all, eventually?
You as you are now are transported to Berlin in 1880 and there is no possible way back. What do you do and who do you become?
Serial killer-rapist and I'll spread rumors of myself being named Adolf Hitler
I would probably move to Vienna because fuck Berlin.
I would probably move to the US because fuck Yuropoopland
Any apocalyptic events, or actual apocalypses, that have happened before in the past but still fly underneath the radar of pop culture and history?
>>1533060
any battle that has happened at Meggido
>>1533060
Younger drays.
Mass mega fauna extinction, gigantic flood caused by melted glacials wiping clean North America and cause increase of sea levels that cover gigantic areas of fertile coasts. Probably caused by impact and probably crushing humans preflood civilizations with little survivors. Leaving some hard to date remains like megalithic ruins, submerged cities and strange artefacts.
>>1533060
The Injuns of Central America were mass raped by Spaniards so quickly that almost everybody is mestizo after such a short timeframe
>"Actually anon, Hitler wasn't German he was Austrian"
>>1533058
actually he was jewish
>"Actually anon, our gardener isn't American he's Mexican"
>>1533058
>implying dirty Schlustenscheisser is a German
They're all Slavs in denial
So, is this supposed to be The Virgin Mary?
>>1533029
It's supposed to be a vagina. not even memeing
>>1533045
holy shit, it is. but I can't find the cliterous
>>1533029
mary wasn't a virgin
she got ROMANED
What time period and place would you most like to live in and why?
>Detroit in the 1940s-50s
>was the richest city in the US
>low crime
>97% white
>Sydney Australia, 11/8/2016
>Highest point of human technology, comfort and safety
>Higher education readily open to me
Lovin' it.
>Detroit at any point of history
It went from an ugly, smelly industrial city to a ugly, rundown nigger city. Not to mention the weather in Michigan is beyond awful.
If I had to pick then probably California before it went full leftie.
>>1533006
>>Highest point of human technology, comfort and safety
Was Nazi Germany a danger to Western civilization?
[spoiler]It wasn't[/spoiler]
Yes.
t. pre-1936 Mussolini
>>1532921
fuck, you just reminded me of how stupid he became in 1936. Thanks, anon.
Whatever happened to the Jutes?
>>1532809
The Jutes in denmark become part of the danes
>>1532809
They assimilated with the others to form the English
formed the Kingdom of Kent until the Vikings when it disintegrated and the nobility joined the Kingdom of Wessex
Are there any medieval dynasties that LEGITIMATELY descended from a roman emperor?
>>1532782
The Byzantine Empire, descended from East Roman Emperor
>>1532782
Charlemagne was descended from a Roman patrician family, and all surviving European royalty are descended from him.
Nahua and Maya tribes went to war with themselves and each other for centuries.
When the Spanish arrived in Mesoamerica they exploited these differences -- working with some Nahua to take down some Maya, and working everyone to take down the Aztecs.
Did tribal rivalries and wars disappear as soon as Mexico was conquered? Or did frontier wars persist until the 19th century, like how Sioux and Lakota went to war with each other even after their territory was under nominal American sovereignty?
How do different tribes feel about each other today?
>>1532732
>How do different tribes feel about each other today?
Kek, there are no tribes today. They either got killed off or assimilated.
What's left is are just muddled traditions left over here and there. Mexicans identify more as Mexicans than they do Aztec or Maya (though they do say they're proud of that lineage).
No Amerindians fought with each other. That is a myth, and a product of the Eurocentric, white male patriarchy's rewriting of history.
Before the backwards Spanish arrived with their horses and ships and wheels, the Nahua and Maya would regularly meet up for coffee and a chat. Sometimes they would camp out together and have marshmallows around a fire whilst regaling the other tribe with tales about Quetzalcoatl, God of Homosexual Fabulousness and Transgender Issues.
In future, please Google these things before posting as you may harm the collective feelings of the oppressed. And check your privilege.
Why is that everyone only talks about aztecs and mayas when muiscas and tayronas were superior?
What podcasts can /his/ recommended to me? I've listened or listen to 'The History of Rome', 'Hardcore History' and 'The Martyrmade Podcast'. Also 'Zafarrancho', but that's /ñ/-exclusive.
What else is good?
bump; i'd also like some history podcasts
>"Revolutions" Mike Duncans series after History of Rome about various revolutions
>The Eastern Border, show about soviet history by a latvian journalist. It's quite good, but I recommend starting with the "Olympic Burger" episode
>The Lesser Bonapartes, comedic show about under-appreciated areas of history, generally factually accurate. I suggest starting with their first series about the successor states to Alexander's Empire
>History on Fire, Like Dan Carlin, but with an italian accent and a focus on fact rather than entertainment
>The British History Podcast, A very well done show about the history of the British Isles, does a good job not neglecting the Anglo-Saxon period. There's a large chunk of non-narrative history episodes after the arrival of anglo saxons that you could skip, but I suggest listening to them.
>The History of Byzantium, Follow-up to the History of Rome. Great for Byzaboos like me
>The History of China, an okay podcast on Chinese History, gets much better over time.
If you have anymore, add them. These are the good ones which I am presently listening to.
bump for more podcasts
Any good sources for learning Medieval sword fighting, stances, blocks etc. No books just online sources
>>1532611
Fight with swords.
How much of a retard do you have to be to think you can learn a martial art from reading a website?
>>1532611
OI MATISTON HERE SCOLUH GLADYATORIUH
If Plato, Aristotle, or Pythagoras were transported to 2016, what religion would they be?
Would they go to church? Some type of temple?
What would Plato have thought about Christianity?
Greek Pagan, they wouldn't magically change religions you flaming retard.
Who the fuck knows
>>1532608
Kek.
But seriously, despite the lip service, their religious views would be classified as Deistic by today's standards.
What did he mean by this?
You can't tell a lie if you don't know what's true, because lying is knowingly saying something untrue. Since truth cannot actually be known, it's impossible to tell a lie, because you have no way of verifying the veracity of your statements either way.
>>1532520
lying isn't neccisarily telling something that's untrue, but telling something that you think is untrue. lying is about having the intention to deceive
>>1532500
I take it as him saying liers and manipulative people in general are usually more astute observers of society.
Gotta understand the system to game it.