ITT: Post your 9 favourite historical figures and we try to guess where you're from
https://bighugelabs.com/mosaic.php
>>1531929
spain
Wow yes very difficult, Madagascar?
Sweden
So, did these exist or what?
>>1531872
Bumping for interest
>>1531872
I don't understand why someone doubts it, it's not like that shit is difficult to make.
>>1531872
I don't think archeological digs have found enough canals into Babylon to support something of that scale
Why did Spain put nipples on their breastplates?
>>1531831
Those discs are protecting a gap in the armor
>>1531831
To trigger /tg/
>>1531831
Aesthetics
>Christianity and Islam are nothing but Pagan and Jewish fanfiction!
How do you reply to this statement?
They're not, they're Zoroastrian fanfiction
Laugh at him and sage.
>>1531780
>How do you reply to the truth?
Burn him at the stake/Allahu Akbar!
How were the olympics in ancient greece different from the olympics now?
For one they were always held in Greece and not in a Huezilian failed state where you get shot while buying groceries and have to swallow feces everytime you dive into a bay.
>>1531762
Only men
Only citizens
Naked
Winner take all, losers are losers.
Wing wangs were wiggled
The Olympians fucked each other more
They weren't held in stupid places like Sochi or Rio
Other than that not much else
VIKINGS WERE FUCKING SHIT
PIC FUCKING RELATED
>>1531544
kefir?
>>1531792
Kefir?
>>1531806
kefir
What ever happened to legalism?
>>1531509
It won by becoming the iron fist hidden beneath the velvet glove of Confucianism, Buddhism, Communism, or whatever was the nominal ideology of the time.
>>1531509
It's pretty much the basis of every modern nation state. You think ancient Chinese bureaucracy was anywhere near as expansive as a modern one?
>>1531509
Elements of Legalism crept its way into Confucianism when the latter was the dominant Philosophy under the Han Dynasty (which set the pattern for Chinese Empire). However the Han did build on the shit Qin Shi Huang founded.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/58/The_Death_of_Postmodernism_And_Beyond
Thoughts?
>>1531495
Nigga did you expect me to read?
Actually though mind blown and awareness of new paradigm achieved.
yeah it's pretty well-established by anyone with an education on the subject that post-modernism was just a late 20th-century movement, but many of the conditions to which it belonged still persist and as such the movement continues to influence the contemporary, as much as new conditions and older movements.
sometimes people come onto 4chan and elucidate what post-modernism means but largely no one listens. it's embarrassing for a history board to have as much insight into post-modernism as /tv/
The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) by Salman Rushdie
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist (1990) by Mark Leyner
The Things They Carried (1990) by Tim O'Brien
Almanac of the Dead (1991) by Leslie Marmon Silko
Omon Ra (1991) by Victor Pelevin
Maus (1991) by Art Spiegelman
The Gold Bug Variations (1991) by Richard Powers
American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis
What a Carve Up! (1991) by Jonathan Coe
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) by Douglas Coupland
Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson
Vurt (1993) by Jeff Noon
A Frolic of His Own (1994) by William Gaddis
AstronautilÃa HvÄ›zdoplavba (1995) by Jan KÅ™esadlo
Galatea 2.2 (1995) by Richard Powers
The Tunnel (1995) by William H. Gass
Reservation Blues (1995) by Sherman Alexie
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) by Haruki Murakami
Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
Chapayev and Void (1996) by Victor Pelevin
Fight Club (1996) by Chuck Palahniuk
Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon
>soldiers of group A attack a position held by soldiers of group B, shoot them until they mostly stop moving and take control of whatever was the point of the position
>not all of group B actually got instakilled but group A was in a hurry for the objective because of reasons
what happens in this situation? what priority is checking on downed enemies when you've also got other things to do? what happens when you miss one? have people gotten shot in the back like this?
generally just what happens when you lose a firefight, aren't dead, but don't do an organized surrender?
there has to be some crazy WW2 story about this kind of thing so tell it to me.
Pretty dead my dude
come on /his/ i wanna learn
Usual military procedure is to put 2 bullets in the chest, and then 1 in the head when the enemy is downed.
In your example, the number 1 priority for the soldiers of group A would be to put 1 or 2 extra bullets in the fallen fighters of group B when they enter the position.
Woah.
Vikings, WEWUZ and Marx threads should be autobanned at this point.
>>1531468
win some lose some, apparently the vikings had enough of an edge over the competition to settle and conquer vast areas
>>1531473
Conquering Saxofags is hardly an achievement.
Did Socrates exist?
>>1531361
yeah whatever
>>1531361
But what is a Socrates? Is it a emotion, a element? How do judge what a Socrates is and if it real or not?
>>1531361
Probably.
What are your thoughts on the Talmud and the history of its composition?
Have any of you read the entire thing?
>>1531340
It bears a remarkable similarity to the formation of common law. And given the relatively late date of composition, I find it interesting that you apparently had Jewish religious courts long after the collapse of Jewish sovereignty.
I haven't read all of it, but quite a bit, more than half of the Talmud Bavli.
>>1531357
Are you Jewish? Do you read along with the Daf Yomi regimen?
>>1531438
I am Jewish, but no, I don't do any sort of systematic study, I just read when I have time and energy to do so.
Do you think someone from the humanities will still one day be able to contribute at least something of importance to artificial intelligence?
no, the humanities are about actual intelligence
Well, Neil Bostrom at the University of Oxford has written a book about A.I which enunciates some of the philosophical issues, such as the existential risk to humans et.al.
You should read more tbqhfamalam.
>>1531355
Nick*
How is this guy not seen as a massive traitor?
>collaborated with an enemy power
>overthrew and killed the rigtful ruler
>ceded a generous chunk of territory to said enemy power
>launched his country into a massive civil war that killed millions of people
>made his country comparatively weaker, not even being able to beat a completely new country like Poland
I mean, imagine if the US went to war with China and some Chinese agent would cause a civil war in the US and cede Hawaii and all of the West Coast to China, would he not be a traitor?
>>1531264
Pretty sure the Russian Empire /did/ see him as a traitor. Gommunists don't because Gommunism is internationalist, not nationalist, so the prospect of one Capitalist regime unwittingly unleashing Gommunism on a rival Capitalist regime merely amuses them.
>>1531285
I mean if you're communist isn't it kind of weird you would admire a guy that collaborated with a capitalist reactionary monarchy?
>>1531292
The end justifies the means I guess.
Don't mind me, just posting best qt
>>1531255
Please, pic related is the all-time champion qt. I've lost track of the number of times I've knocked one out to her, eternal virginity = eternally tight AF.
>fapping to big strong western yuros
your waifu is not pure
Welcome to real taste