OUT OF OUR WAY NAZI FUCKING SHITS
>>1475910
>>1475936
reminds me of pic rel
Who is history's greatest monarch?
>>1474961
My dick
Does Augustus Caesar count as a monarch?
Charles V of the HRE, I of Spain.
Why did Marcus Aurelius insist on making his son , Commodus, his successor? In every practical sense, Marcus Aurelius seemed to be a wise and very intelligent ruler, but this seemed like a real boneheaded move on his part.
>>1474909
Maybe he became blind with fatherly love?
>>1474909
>wise and very intelligent
>stoic
Choose one.
>>1474974
But you only gave us one choice.
You all couldn't be actual shut ins who never traveled right?
Post photos of historically significant/heritage sites you've taken yourselves.
Pic related; Honnoji temple for the Weeabs out there. Nobunaga's final resting place is now in some market hall and behind a Familymart convenience store. Visited the place back in 2013.
>>1474904
>Nobunaga's final resting place is now in some market hall and behind a Familymart convenience store.
How very Japanese
>>1474904
This is the city of Eger, where in the 16th Century, what remained of the Kingdom of Hungary hurled back an Ottoman army twice the size of the defenders.
Failed to take a picture of it, but I was standing on Eger Castle's walls.
>>1474904
>taking photos
Literally pleb tier tourist.
Hello /his/. I was wondering if the reason why Seoul(capital of S.Korea) may not be as "culturally relevant" to i.e. Tokyo or Peking was due to major historical events or centre of culture occurring there or due to Western Orientalism becoming aware/literate towards Chinese/Japanese culture than that of Korea.
For example, when I think of the US I think of New York, Chicago, Texas, LA. For Europe I immediately think of Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Rome, etc. Do these questions of being "relevant" depend on whether or not they actually are more culturally/economically powerful than other possibilities?
Before Japanese colonization, Korea was basically a continuation of Ming Dynasty culture, i.e. not original at all. In fact, many things that are now staples of Korean society and culture were introduced during Japanese colonization.
Korea had not been relevant for thousands of years until rapid industrialization and the spread of Korean pop culture. The way that people view Korea nowadays would've been unthinkable merely 30 years ago. It's one of the modern world's most amazing success stories.
>>1474539
But there are cities like Casablanca or Sydney which probably weren't ever the capital cities of great powers, but tend to be well-known.
Furthermore I don't think a culture needs to be original to become "famous" or "relevant".
>>1474603
Korea *literally* shut itself from the 1500s-1800s.
They coined the term Hermit Kingdom for sakes.
reminder the Irish were historically treated worse than blacks
That's because the Irish themselves were worse than blacke. Damn potato niggers.
Pay reparations for white slavery you filthy sassnach!
Leopold II of Belgium wants to remind you that it's important to talk about timeframe when making broad historical claims like this.
How did Attaturk win his War of Independence while being occupied simultaneously by Britain, France, Italy, Greece and Armenia?
Were the allies just too war-weary to put down this revolt?
Were they secretly hoping for a secular modernizer to take the reigns of the Ottoman Empire?
>>1474182
it really salts my cod when people write his name as "Attaturk". It's like if somebody wrote "George Waschington". It's incorrect.
>>1474182
The occupiers put their support in with Turkey after the king of greece died and greece was in a period of political instability
>>1475584
this sounds irrelevant af, do you have proofs?
Lets talk about Göbekli Tepe, /his/
What do you think about thay discovery?Any archeologylads around here?
Red pill me on Göbekli Tepe, /his/
Is it the central Temple of alien Aryans?
>>1473974
>I cannot into irony
>kek Protestants took stuff out of the bible, they're not even real Christians
>the Roman government literally decided what books would comprise the bible
>God loves you anon, he knew who you were before you were born
>woah woah, you can't actually talk to him directly, there's an army of middlemen and saints for that!
How do Catholics even justify this?
Saints were mostly a trapping to make Catholicism an easier pool to swallow for the polytheists they converted.
They're just role models nowadays and a cool way to celebrate Church history, like a modern "Acts of the Apostles"
>>1473718
>They're just role models nowadays
[Citation needed]
As far as I knew, the rules for sainthood haven't changed.
>>1473718
>a trapping to make Catholicism an easier pool to swallow for the polytheists they converted.
does a church actually admit to this
How do fedoras make it work when they on one hand jerk over moral nihilism and muh Nietzsche and on the other think a woman should burn if she has an affair?
>>1473129
They don't really, they just don't think about it deep enough to realise there's an issue with their beliefs.
Go look at /r9k/ for this being demonstrated even just in the basics of "No women will sleep with me and this is bad" but also "Women sleep around too much and this is bad". They're saying that women not having more sex is bad, but also that they shouldn't have as much sex as they currently are.
>>1473317
Sex with different people, anon. It's not "Women have too much sex" it's "Women are not monogamous"
>>1473323
But the issue there is that's not actually backed up by any evidence. They take the data (I think average amount of partners by 40 is around 8 for both genders, might be lifetime) and just assume that they're all having casual sex. Then they get mad that they aren't having casual sex with them.
Maybe a better example would be anti-natalists who say they're that way because life is objectively worse than death, yet don't desire death themselves.
Apologies if I'm not explaining this well, I'm kind of out of it.
What was history's biggest mistake?
your birth
The Catholic Church. We're about 200 years behind because of them.
Not even memeing.
>>1473114
Fall of Constantinople
I FUCKING HATE THIS FUCKING SLAVE ORPHAN BRAT SLUT CUNT WHORE AND HER MANLET INSANE FUCKING SPANIARD MAN FUCKK I HOPE SHE BURNS IN HELL FUCKING
Maybe the Aztec shouldn't have been a shit, universally hated, unstable empire.
>>1471805
Maybe this fucking cunt shouldnt have lied to Cortes and basically everyone she knew and caused the death of thousands of her countrymen
>>1471811
Didn't they sell her as a slave?
How do we evolve beyond nation states?
>>1474183
Communism and racial mixing
With the rise of anarcho-capitalism.
>tfw only half kidding
What are the tenants of "Nationalism"
What went wrong?
>>1475751
The bubble era.
>>1475751
The Japanese miracle couldn't go on forever. It's easy to catch up and hard to stay in the lead, and everyone lost spirit when they saw that the golden time was over.
In effect, it was just a gigantic market correction. A painful reality call, if you prefer.
>>1475813
Explain 2000-present.
A lot fewer NPLs and zombie banks + explosive world growth 2000-2008 and 2010-2012.
>""""""Great"""""" Zimbabwe
Weren't Sardinians building similar structures like 3000 years before great zimzam?
>>1475365
yea and they were much more impressive with domed roofs and such
not to mention Zimbabwe was likely built by Indian traders.
>>1475365
I don't really understand arguments like this. Humans don't advance on a global scale.