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>>1493519
No, but then again, I'm not religious.
Wait for the spiritual fags to flock to the thread for the interesting/hilarious answers

>>1493531
Can you describe how you view this single entity then? I mean, I can accept that one affects the other but that's about as far as I can understand.

>>1493561
It's not that one influences the other, more as it is that one cannot exist without the other.
Split my head from my body and see how well either gets along.

>>1492799
If you were homeless, you were basically shit out of luck in terms of ever getting yourself together. There were no halfway houses or shelters, most homeless lived under bridges, getting caught loitering while the town watch patrolled could get you pressed into forced labor.

Overall, it was a hell of a lot harder to be homeless in Rome than in Western countries.

Be more specific.

>>1492799
Absolutely awful. The homeless in Rome tried to sneak into baths at night in order to keep warm, there was no street lighting so the streets were very dangerous in the darkness, the poor were not seen with sympathy due to Roman cultural values and instead were pretty much laughed at by everybody, even either homeless. When you died, the torment didn't end, and you were lobbed into a mass grave outside the city. Upon archaeological excavations in the late 19th century one mass grave still stank 2000 years later, it was so bad that the archaeologist had to give his entire team several hours break for the still-rotting corpse smell to dissipate.

Then how did it break in two?

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>>1499767
it did but at a shallower angle, and the split was closer to the water than thought.

>>1499762
Daily reminder that the titanic as designed should have been able to survive the sort of impact it had with the ice berg

And now they're in the process of adopting their own constitution and re-militarizing.

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>>1494981
Which is what we've wanted them to do for years.
>le handrubbing burger merchant.png

>>1494974
The occupation of West Germany and post-war West German were huge successes too.

These were ex-world powers with their capital destroyed by war, and leadership that led them to a losing war. With the injection of fresh capital investment from the US and under the control of puppet states they prospered. You'll notice Italy is still shit post-war because it was shit pre-war.

East Germany was among the most successful states in the Soviet bloc, despite Russia being mad at ex-Nazis ant trying to steal their factories and scientists to bring back to the motherland.

People seem to have this false impression that a war-torn first world country and former world power gets reverted back to a 3rd world country when they lose a war. This isn't true at all. You would have to institute something like the Morgenthau Plan for that to be true, which is why they came up with the plan in the first place, but they didn't follow though. A ex-world power that loses a war is just a crippled first world country that needs to get back up on its feet.

>>1502414
They had what they wanted from China by forcing them to sign treaties.

Don't know too much, Vietnam was an on-and-off vassal state of China for about 1000 years.

The rest paid some tribute to whatever Chinese emperor there was once in a while. Maybe some actual knowledgeable Chinese history anon can help me out here.

>>1502414
britain already learned its lesson about trying to conquer and control geographically huge countries with India

squat black guys threw sticks at giant reptiles

>>1502418
There had to be more going on than that.

>>1502422
there was some koalas

The Soviet Union is like huge man. Both in terms of area and resources. Like...HUGE.

>>1502232
You ever consider that their investment in making tanks was much larger proportionally than that of other nations? I'm not sure I understand the problem/question here. They clearly devoted a large percentage of their government budget on tanks. The US and others just had other priorities I guess. Like aircraft.

The US gave them copious infusions of every resource they were missing and remade all of their factories on more efficient American designs.

The UK also helped.

Could The United State be considered an empire?

>>1502229
A nation-empire hybrid.

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>>1502225
Poor, warmongering, genocidal, obnoxiously agressive, uncivilized, soulless nation suffering eternal identity crisis(first they stole the Kievan Rus' history, then they defeated and subjugated another important Rus' cultural centre - Novgorod, claimed to be the "Third Rome", then tried to establish themselves as a proper European state copying the Western art and developements, then realizing how multicultural and diverse is their state they came up with """"USSR"""" abandoning their former flag and culture, after it's pathetic fall they are again lost and clueless so they sperg out). Collectivist minded and servile society with no regard to human life. They don't care about their personal wealth, freedom etc as long as Mother Russia and the Tsar is fine. They lack empathy, incapable of establishing a friendly relations on equal terms. Apart from Moscow and St Petersburg and some oil regions Russia is extremely poor and undeveloped - as the Russians are incapable of producing anything sophisticated almost the entire wealth of the country comes from it's natural resources. Except for the art and architecture directly derived either from the Greeks(all the Orthodox architecture they have horribly bastardized, icons) or Westerners(these fancy palaces in St. Petersburg) they barely have contributed to the culture at all. Considering a very large population their scientific contribution is utterly underwhelming, vastly inferior compared to the Western Slavs. Entire society is subjected to brainwashing propaganda blaming the Americans for everything, making them praise their Tsar Putin and support all the vicious acts of violence and terror. They can't even into geopolitics - Russia still pretends it's 19th century and the best way for the state to succeed is to be egoistic, xenophobic, expansive, imperialistic, overly-nationalistic and authoritarian. Russia is the true cancer of humanity and I sincerely hope it breaks apart as soon as possible.

>>1502203
Jobs. Just like today.

>>1502203
I don't know about the ancient world but I can't see it being too different from the medieval. In large European urban centres the death rate outpaced the birthrate, so there was opportunity for social mobility for rural lower classes who would otherwise mightn't be able to ever become a master rather than just a journeyman.

Jobs, proximity to power, the hope of having a better life than being reliant on the harvest

>>1501981

The IVC had actual toilets and sewers, making them several cuts better than even modern Indians.

Ashoka is simply the greatest, H.G. Wells said so- but seriously he ruled by himself almost all of the Indian subcontinent, freedom of religion, etc.

>>1501981
What indian civilization? The majority of India's history is being under the rule of non-indians, being ruled by turks, iranics, brits etc. Pre islam you have non indian identities like the kushans ruling vaste swathes of india, after islam I won't even go into how much muslims raped india. And we all know european rule of india, every european got a piece of india at some point. Ashoka was alright, but his rule is literally we wuz kangz tier long ago.

>>1501943

Depends on how you define "war filled".

Historical political entities, really most of everything pre 18th century or so, spent almost their entire time being at war with someone or something. But war wasn't as "total" as total war depicts it.

I haven't played Rome 2, but if it's anything like medieval 2, a typical battle kills 50-100% of the losing force, and maybe anywhere between 10-33% of the winning force if it's not a total curbstomp. That's what's enormously rare. Battles that wiped out the other side didn't happen often and when they did they were talked about for ages.

Raid and counter-raid was far more common; and it was hard to assert control over areas even if your armies marched through it. And if you won a battle, you'd usually be lucky to eliminate more than a quarter of your opposition, and due to the fact that standing armies were VERY rare (itself a complicated subject) it was hard to sustain a long campaign, which meant that even if you won a battle and sliced off a border province or something, it would be hard to advance further, and that gives your opponent a time to catch his breath, assuming nothing goes wrong in the meantime, which isn't common.

No, most places went decades without any conflict.

Though in some places cattle raiding and low intensity warfare was quite common.

>>1501943
Field battles were pretty rare. Sieges were very much the preferred form of war.

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>>1501754
heisman's historiography is where you can begin and end
>tl;dr: machine head

>>1501754
It's too late, just get a job at Trader Joe's and accept your lot in life

>>1501772
Why late? I still can read and memorize shit, honkey.

>>1501514
It is one of the more beloved podcasts. I think it focuses a little too much on the narrative of the emporers and less about society as a whole. It's a good introductory podcast. The best eras were punic wars and crisis of third century.

It's as good as a popular history can be. And he's usually up-front and self-aware of when he's merely speculating or indulging in the speculations of other historians, so when he goes off the rails you're never really offended by it. It's a really great listen.

>>1501514
The quality gets better over time, but overtime it also becomes more and more focused on the Emperors than necessarily the Empire as a whole.

The process of decolonization and the rise of communist regimes in Eastern Africa is pretty cool.

No post WWII history is interesting. Even WWII is kinda boring.

Pick one.

>>1501464
Israel
Vietnam
Singapore

like ur mum

>>1501350
Rekt

>>1501342
>soldiers were basically allowed to wear/use whatever they wanted as long as it was serviceable

Nope. Maybe he's thinking of certain kinds of auxiliaries, who could be Syrian archers, Balaeric slingers, Germanic horsemen etc.

>mail armor and scale armor were always way more common than the plate armor that's always associated with rome

Sort of true. Only briefly, near the start of the Empire did lorica segmentata ever get used on a large scale and even then it was not ubiquitous. Most of the time it chain. Scale was often used by Roman soldiers fighting in the east against more heavily armed opponents like Persians.

>round and oval shields were always way more common than rectangular ones

Nope. Romans had square scutum for many centuries as a rule, with it only changing in the later Empire accompanying other massive shifts in the Roman military i.e. much tinier legions, much smaller formations, use of spatha swords instead of shorter gladius' for more one on one combat, oval shields to reflect that type of fighting style etc.

>armor was rarely shiny and polished, and usually dark grey and likely rusty.

The centurion would beat the shit out of you with his vine staff if your armour was not finely polished. 99.9% of the time Roman legionaries were sitting in a fortress or camp near the frontier, not fighting a war. Keeping up discipline was why the Roman army was always considered so brutal.

>Did roman soldiers ever look like pic related

Yes. For a time, though the helmet could be incorrect for the time period.

>Any historically accurate depictions in films/games?

EB2.