Hello /his/.
I recently purchased a late medieval war hammer found in the river danube near Neuburg an den Donau.
Date is around early 15th century.
This one has an etxtremely long spike. How would this particular hammer have been used? Most of the weight is in the spike and you'd think it would just get stuck.
Oakeshott is no use since he barely covers hammers.
My guess is someone comissioned it just because he could afford it and he thought it was cool.
Pic related. Mine is in way worse condition and the spike is slightly smaller.
it's a pick. not a warhammer.
One with not one but two oversized spikes. Also German. The first one I posted is of eastern european origin btw.
>>1509815
>second from the right
Why is this so sexy
How come a country that controlled this much territory ended up being pushed around as if it was nothing?
What caused the decline of spain?
Kek
Wrong pic
>>1509597
Spain ruined itself. First it fucked it's own economy by importing so much gold and silver that inflation went out of control, then it fucked itself militarily by waging a series of ruinous wars in Europe, finally it fucked it'sown navy by picking a pointless fight with England and sending it's fleet all the way round Britain during winter (storm season). By the time of the Spanish-American war, Spain was already a paper tiger, but that marked the final end of it's international sway.
Spain was always shit.
They just were lucky to be in a good spot to exploit the resources of the new world.
When other, superiour countries caught on with colonialization, Spains fall was only a matter of time
>The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood
What did he mean by this?
just another autocrat trying to self justify by saying freedom isn't important and implying democracies are inherently weak
>>1509453
He meant exactly what he said.
>>1509461
But its true though. The more powerful a nation gets the more undemocratic it becomes.
I'm a conservative south american with a major in latin american history ask me whatever you want
Is Argentina white?
From the papal bulls of Alexander VI to the cold war I'm here to help you understand Latin America.
Why are all of you subhman?
hello everyone I'm from Rome and here latin is a mandatory subject in highschool ask me anything
>>1509306
This is an 18+ board. Begone.
>>1509306
How much is Latin similar to Italian?
>>1510435
Good reply to a 7 hours old thread.
I agree.
Why does he suck, again?
>Inb4 "TURKS DINDU"
Who?
literally who
>>1509167
Dude looks and sounds awful.
Extra history is okay but they embellish too much desu.
>tfw you'll never be a Roman Consul
HE
>>1508938
>tfw you will never be a Sassanid dynasty Cataphract rider
>You will never impale multiple Romans on your lance then return home after a hard season of campaiging to your large estate in Persia
>And fuck your qt Aryan waifu and get several more sons and daughters while your relax in the qanat pools
>you will never be a late Roman landowner's son sheltering a group of QT grills from the barbarian onslaught beyond the frontier
>you will never take advantage of them and break all rules of hospitality in the process
Was he the last great intellectual debater of our time?
>>1508875
No, I am.
>>1508875
Yes.
>>1508879
No, it's me.
Idiot.
So im just now getting into philosophy, so some of this may seem silly. But as of now i am looking into nihilism, but im having a big issue with doing so. I just cant find any good material on epistomological nihilism, so im kinda stuck on it. So i am wondering if any nihilists here could help me out if possible. I was wondering if it is even possible to hold certain beliefes about our reality in general if you hold epistomoligical nihilism to valid. Lets say that i am a materialist and a nihilist, wouldnt that be contradictory because i am making a truth claim about our world?
>>1508450
what difference does it make?
>>1508450
If you think Nihilism is about giving up and simply accepting nothing has no meaning you fucking lost and failed to grasp the basic fundamentals Nietzsche tried to expound onto you.
Nihilism is about coping and eventually beating the fact that everything is inherently pointless. It's not about giving up as every millennial seems to think it is.
I already beat Nihilism, it's your turn now.
>He thinks Answers in Genesis is correct about the origins of Earth
>he thinks Ken Ham is smart
Why are Creationists such fucking retards? When will they just get their /rel/ board and leave us alone?
maybe approach the argument and argue with them rather than mock them, I dont stand with them on their views but still dont just mock them, argue your point
>creationists =/= young earth creationists
>>1508433
>approach the argument and argue with them
>trying to argue with fundamentalists
Why did Napoleon invade Egypt?
>>1507004
He wanted to prove the French built the pyramids.
He was black. He just wanted to go home.
>>1507004
He wanted to cross over to India and ally with muh nigga Tipu Sultan who was, at the time, killing the British with rockets.
No joke.
>>1506913
Please leave.
My guess is they would be still at feudal stage
>>1506913
>WE COULDA BEEN KANGZ N SHIT
Am I the only one who feels exasperated at reading about the Whites in the Russian Civil War?
They simply seem so... so incompetent. They comprised the remnant of the Imperial Army and military apparatus and bureaucracy in large parts of the former Empire, yet they lost to the Reds, who despite being a popular movement, managed to organize and establish both an administration and chain of command much more efficiently.
>>1506111
They were, by and large, the leftovers from the Czar's extremely incompetent government. What exactly were you expecting?
because the White movement was anything under the sun that wasn't Communism. Monarchists, anarchists, republicans, all groups that had mutual distrust and hate for each other.
it wasn't uncommon for white units to fight over white units over conflicting views, and this tore each other apart while the Reds remained united.
it's pretty acceptable to say that the Russian civil war wasn't Red vs. White movements, but an all out brawl between each conflicting ideology, with the whites having a bare minimum agreement to work together in fighting communism.
>>1506111
They were incompetent because it was considered in bad taste and revolutionary for a tsarist officer to engage in politics. Because of that they failed to enforce social and administrative reforms on the home front and gather international allies on the foreign front.
Also the Reds controlled Moscow which was obviously the central railway junction of all of Russia, which allowed them to concentrate their forces where they were needed. OTOH the Whites failed to conquer Tsaritsyn early on which would allow the southern and eastern fronts to unite.
As long as Whites remained volunteers, they kept winning battle after battle. But they couldn't win the war with that.
Of course, there was a large degree of incompetence too, such as May-Maevsky spending the crucial moments of the Tula-Orel fights stone fucking drunk, and had a Bolshevik spy as one of his top aides.
t. Whiteaboo
Depictions of death and decadence, please.
The Silk Road and Central Asia have always been some of the most fascinating historical subjects to me. So let's have a thread about them.
When, how, and why did the Silk Road lose its importance?
>>1501233
When British imperialism and advancing technology rendered it pointless.
>>1501239
Apparently it was actually Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan.
(and the dissolution of the Mongol empire)
>>1501233
Even with the discovery of Americas and the Westerly Route, the fact of the matter is that everyone that lined the silk route in the 1500s WAS A MAJOR FUCKING EMPIRE meant that it was a vital trading route even if the Yurofaggots found ways around it.
That, and the Spice route never lost its importance. Ever. Hell it got a fucking upgrade when the Suez Canal was built.
One could truly say that the Silk Route died in the late 19th century. Not before.