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>>1529059
Honestly it would have just turned into another Iraq/Syria/Egypt/Libya most likely.
Then again Iran is doing alright even with their shitty islamic system, perhaps there was hope.

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SHUT IT DOWN

The Tudeh party were wankers who used political violence to get into power.

TPAJAX was stupid, but Mossedegh did kind of deserve it.

I don't act like a disgusting nouveau-riche pleb, no.

>>1529045
>Although Kim enjoyed many foreign forms of entertainment, according to former bodyguard Lee Young Kuk, he refused to consume any food or drink not produced in North Korea, with the exception of wine from France.[112] His former chef Kenji Fujimoto, however, has stated that Kim sometimes sent him around the world to purchase a variety of foreign delicacies.[113]
>calling this plebery

>>1529048
More like Le young Cock

>>1528990
Taoists dont believe in non action, they believe in not acting before nature. Its such a varied religion with so many different sects and beliefs that its hard to nail down

If you dont think taoists were very active, look at the yellow turban rebellion.

>>1528990
>non action
>he thinks Taoism advocates not doing anything

Western cucks who can't into eastern philosophy will never not be funny

>>1528990

Nah, taoists do stuff, they just try to act in harmony with nature.

Zen Buddhists are the OG NEETS, they literally sit in their parents basement doing nothing.

>>1528967
>How did Europeans think of God in the Middle Ages? Was he a big man in the sky?
Why don't you go and ask them.

>>1528969
But anon, they're all dead!

>>1528967
For you.

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also this one

>>1528922
I read about half of it for a basic history course

It was pretty interesting, especially the account of his early life
but expect bias like "Genghis Khan invented x" or just general exaggerations about how great a warrior he was
I mean he was great and all but some stuff in the book just seems a bit far fetched
haven't read the second book.

>>1528922

I found it to be an interesting narrative concerning a historical figure whose background I had not been acquainted with. I was informed, and yes, entertained, although the book is geared more toward a general audience. I would recommend it, especially since it's not long.

There are two caveats with this: I have a personal bias in that I went to college just up the road from where the author was teaching at the time (hasn't he gone native/gone to live Ulan Bator or some shit?), and the author visited the proper history course where we had the text as assigned reading, and he talked a bit about the mongols, so that was rather cool.

So on the one hand, I have a personal bias in that I "liked reading the book", to say nothing of scholarly rigor, and have a little personal history relating to it. On the other hand, I have heard that more serious /his/torical types have criticized the book as being revisionist (whatever that is supposed to mean in the present context), "pop history", etc. So just be aware of these criticisms OP. I still say read it, of course, just keep that critical brain active like you're supposed to, and then read into the above criticisms as you are inclined.

We have monarchies today.

Ask the residents of Tonga, Saudi Arabia, Swaziland and Thailand.

>>1528860
No.

>>1528860
>Is it surprising that the people could see their fate and that of the world only as an endless succession of evils? Bad government, exactions, the cupidity and violence of the great, wars and brigandage, scarcity, misery and pestilence -- to this is contemporary history neatly reduced in the eyes of the people. The feeling of general insecurity which was caused by the chronic form wars were apt to take, by the constant menace of the dangerous classes, by the mistrust of justice, was further aggravated by the obsession of the coming end of the world, and by the fear of hell, of sorcerers and devils. The background of all life in the world seems black. Everywhere the flames of hatred arise and injustice reigns. Satan covers a gloomy earth with his somber wings. In vain the militant Church battles, preachers deliver their sermons; the world remains unconverted. According to a popular belief, current towards the end of the fourteenth century, no one, since the beginning of the great Western schism, had entered Paradise.

--Johan Huizinga, the Waning of the Middle Ages

Sounds like a pussy ass bitch to me.

>>1528824
So sad ;~;

Literally /pol/

This thread.

>>1528686
>things faggots overrate that triggers faggot op so much he swings to the complete other end of the spectrum as a reaction but were really just meh
Ftfy

>OP
Oh wait everyone believes that.

>>1528668
On Money is a good read.

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>>1528668

Why it still continues though.

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>>1528665

I completely agree.

>>1528674
What happened there?

>>1528665
I think it's a nod to how the "Social Sciences" use an inductive format resembling that of the Natural Sciences, but, like the Humanities, have trouble finding the proof to turn theory into law. Economists can't just crash the economy "to see what happens" the way chemists perform an experiment.

>someone posts a le vikings were shit thread again
>immediately some other anon posts another
Every time

You would probably get more of the attention you want in /pol/ most people in /his/ know that vikings were overrated now let's make room for better threads.

>>1528663
>killing each other over insults

Yeah man, imagine the horror if men today had honor!

What savagery, it would be hell on Earth.

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>be vikings
>build the only important Irish cities
>irish chimp out
>defend yourself against irish barbarians
>more and more irish savages keep coming
>eventually forced out

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>>1528717
>implying vikings were civilized

lmao their ''architecture'' is Africa tier

>>1528731
Compared to the irish? Yes they were

>people who treat war as a for-profit enterprise lose to people who treat war as a government service

Color me shocked.

Woowee the stuff you learn on /his/

>>1528533
Then why the fuck everyone says vikings were such great and fearless warriors?

Maude

>>1528438
>Maude
Awesome, thank you.

>>1528447
No probs man.

If you want to be fancy get the Everyman edition

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Just be yourself :)

I think it's worth pointing out that the caste responsible for keeping track of the calendar in the earliest (Neolithic/bronze age) civilizations was almost always the priests. Come to think of it, I can't think of even one exception to this pattern.

>>1528416
Please do not conflate Catholicism with Christianity.

They're two entirely separate entities.