So /his/ what classes are you taking this year? Surely your not only taking classes that you already know the content of, and only limit your perspective of history.
>>1526107
>International Communism, HIS 400
>Stalinism, HIS 600
>Courtly Love, HIS 500
>The Western, COM 400
And a couple practical film courses to finish my major
Civil War History
on my own time since almost no colleges in the North have classes specific to the war
>REL 404: Evangelicals in America
>REL 360: Religious and Societal Conflict
>ANTH 484: Magic, Science, and Religion
>PHIL 500: Philosophy of Film
>REL 350: Islam
Shaping up to be a gr8 semester famalam
How did Ancient Rome achieve a level of infrastructure we didn't achieve in the West again until the 19th century with technology worse than what we had in the middle ages?
>>1526100
for the predominance of their infrastructure building days they paid in a standard of currency called a silver denarius that had a high % content of the precious metal; silver. the point of their expansive empire namely through spain through to england was for the mining of this resource: silver. this has set the precident to this day
the lack of a faith where the whole point of life is to praise god every day so you get to heaven in the end, in the middle ages there was no pressure to create a better civilization because everyone firmly believed theyd go to paradise after death until the plague made people stop trusting the church as much
>>1526100
The realm was largely peaceful, and good wages encouraged people to learn craftsmanship and do lots of good work. They paid these wages in silver denarii. Currency would layer be devalued and after Rome fell the entire economy broke down, making infrastructure harder to build or maintain. Because territory became more segmented and feudalism meant decentralization, large scale infrastructure work was harder to coordinate. Only after feudalism died and Europe became relatively stable could infrastructure again reach its ancient height.
Hello,
To make a long story short, I'm traveling to Munich this fall and would like to arrange an interview with Edda Goering.
If anyone could provide me with genuine contact details, I would be immensely grateful.
And - if you know how to contact her - I'll provide any info you want so as to prove that I'm a real person.
Try not to get raped by nationalist anti-EU groups.
>>1526052
Didn't she get herself sterilized so she could never pass on any Goering genes? Why the fuck would she have anything to do with a Nazi-worshipping site like 4chan or any of its users?
>>1526067
Goering's niece had herself sterilized.
>Why the fuck would she have anything to do with a Nazi-worshipping site like 4chan or any of its users?
Believe it or not, not everyone on 4chan is a Nazi.
I just want to speak with her for historical purposes. I'm not interested in glorifying NS or demonizing it.
What history youtubers/podcasts do you guys listen to?
I'm looking for some good ones about feudal Japan, western antiquity, and Spanish colonization.
>>1525858
Here are some pretty based lecture series.
Early Medieval history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8JcWVRFp8
Roman History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H1FSrqXxfM
>>1525858
Bump for podcasts, something I can walk around to, youtube's too big a commitment. Can't even lock me phone
>>1525934
I'm about to try out the China series from Harvard X too, if this or a similar thread is up by the time I'm done I'll post it if it's any good.
What the fuck is the deal with Nick Land?
>>1525680
When people say
>we were born too late to explore the earth, too soon to explore space, but just in time to post dank memes
he's someone who was born too early to post dank memes.
>>1525691
What do you mean by this?
>>1525691
But he posts dank memes constantly. The guy's Twitter is like a collection of 4chan posts.
Can someone tell me what the hell was going on with Spain at the turn of the century that was giving them endless art and brilliance?
From Gaudi to the 1888 Exposition to the Art Noveau all around town, it seems like everything in the city was going well.
Today it seems a shell of what it once was
It happens to all the best, it's a matter of time they shine again, at least a region.
>>1525657
all those spice and herbs importations that justified new world expansion and silver hording were actually paying for drugs
>>1525657
From what I've heard, the Generation of '98 and the beautiful art around Barcelona was a reaction to Spain losing status as a Great Power. The artists wanted to show people that Spain was still great and would still be great even if it lost its colonial empire.
It could have been great, but the Civil War and franquismo ruined it.
Why didn't the French participate in the Vietnam war when the Americans escalated it? I never hear about it. If they didn't, is there a particular reason why not? Did the Americans ever consider the possibility of restored French colonial rule as an alternative to communism?
Let's try to keep the surrendermonkeys meme to a relative minimum.
Because
>returning the former colonial ruler to a recently decolonized country facing a nationalist insurgency is ridiculously stupid
>after the Evian accords, France was done with foreign conflict for pretty much the rest of time
>they are legitimately crap allies
>>1525446
>France was done with foreign conflict for pretty much the rest of time
France has been very active in supporting their former colonies in West Africa though.
>>1527710
Because they're still our colonies and contain actual ressources like Uranium and zinc, but this is not limited to West Africa, we still have special contract with Algayria concerning the oil and the gas.
What are Iraqis?
Are they arabized sumerians/babylonions? It's where those civilizations were, after all.
Are they arabized persians? The area spent a lot of time under Persian control and the Sassanid capitol was pretty close to modern Baghdad.
Are they just the descendants of northern arab migrations? They were the first stop when islam started to spread out of the peninsula, after all.
What are Iraqis?
Not a single ethnicity.
Theres kurds, arabs, assyrians, yazidi, etc.
Iraqi nationalism is supposed to be a blend of kurdish and arab nationalism, but that basically died out.
Most Iraqis are arabs.
Kurds, Yazidi, etc are basically islamized or arbized persians or however you want to put it (inb4 theyre just persians- they really took on a lot of arab traditions or culture and mixed it with their own) but thats pretty much it.
Iraq is made up of different ethnicities. Its a multi-ethnic state
>>1525581
ur a multi ethnic state
>>1525581
This.
Its borders were drawn by the British and French after the Ottoman Empire lost the land after their defeat in World War I. Like many borders drawn by the British and French outside of Europe (namely in Africa), they weren't drawn with regards to ethnicities living there.
Is empathy necessary for human survival?
Why or why not?
>>1525364
What a ridiculous question.
We have no other reference point to judge.
>>1525364
If mothers didn't have empathy they wouldn't raise children
Obviously not.
It's been proven that Anna Anderson (Franziska Schanzkowska) was not Anastasia. So why are there still people today who believe it?
People cling to cute stories.
It's been proven that the two party system is fucking bullshit yet people still keep voting for the two parties.
anyone knows if symbol in pic related has any meaning/story?
its in the book Skagboys by Irvine Welsh
sry, had no idea where else to post this
>>1525293
I don't know the meaning for sure, but my grandpa has a book with this symbol all over it, on many pages. I have to look it up around the house, though, don't know where it is.
It has something to do with 1943.
It is a gang's 'signature', known as a 'Menchie' here in Scotland. It incorporates the initials of the gang - in this case 'Young Leith Team (YLT)', in a distinctive manner, just like a 'tag' in American graffiti culture
Usually gangs (especially in Glasgow) take the form 'Young *Neighbourhood* Team', or variations thereof. Some are quite unique and original.
>>1527716
I should also add that most of these gangs have relatively long histories, forming in industrial working-class areas of Scotland. They are not involved in organised crime, and mostly consist of 10-18 year old boys who drink and fight rival gangs for entertainment.
What's with the ancient people and long dicks?
>>1525271
>humon comics
For example
>>1525285
This shows that King Cuck often received well-endowed slaves as tribute.
Why shouldn't we immanentize the eschaton? If Heaven doesn't exist, why not create it on Earth? Shouldn't it be man's goal?
>>1525205
t. kabbalist
your heaven is another man's hell
>>1525205
The earth is in heaven
Accidents, natural disasters, nothing being perfect, life being unfair, and entropy and gradual human development prevent utopia and heaven on earth. No one can be born perfect or immune to suffering and death, so said goal is illogical.
I'm doing a project and the topic is "taking a stand"
Which event(s) should I choose?
Pic related
>>1524719
Constantine on christianizing rome
Holocaust revisionism
The Ku Klux Klan
Ethiopia against Italy
Milos
Greek nationalism against the ottomemes
Martin Luthor
The Grachii Brothers
The genocide of Namibia by Germans
Witch hunts were very rare in the Middle Ages because the Church didn't believe in witchcraft. What changed in the Early Modern Period to make the Church accept the existence of witchcraft and led to all of the 16-17th century witch hunts?
>>1524700
The Church didn't change its positions at all.
It was just weak as fuck outside of the major cities during the middle ages.
>>1524700
Witches.
>>1524700
"Witchhunts" were generally just an excuse to eliminate polytheists. The Catholic Church had a general policy of tolerating other religions so long as they didn't try to start something, so it rarely authorized witch-hunts. Protestants were far less tolerant in that regard.