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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Condition_(film_series)

For people which aren't pussies and don't have short attention span

I don't get it, have you actually read Hobbes?

Why don't you just read his works and come to your own conclusion?

>>1430389
Why would I need to read him? I'm just writing an essay on him. You should only read an author if you're doing it as a hobby or something.

>border control
you got around by word of mouth and experience, if you were lucky enough to find a map it would be grossly inaccurate.

Uí Neill best clan.
O'Brien shits need not apply

>>1430276

Common people did not travel more than a couple miles from home. Border control did not exist. Trade was done along known routes, by memory. If all else fails you ask where you are at an inn. No maps needed.

Yes, the meme being that anything that's praised by some group is in fact meme shit in the eyes of le 4channeur contradicteuriste extraordinaire

>meme
>rampant cultural idea, phrase, or style of humor (double irony, baiting, grieving), for better or worse

Easily the white death. He did not get 300 kills. Maybe 14-50. He did not bring 300 rounds with him into a tree and land all his shots.

>worked for centuries and centuries against countless different peoples
>meme

I guess artillery is a meme too.

Go home, Marcus, you're drunk.

>>1430101
> implying Claudius wasn't based af
Plebs, abi domum.

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>Implying Augustus wasn't primo princeps

Julius Caesar was ok.

Crossbow is a shit weapon

>slow to fire
>inaccurate

>>1430040
Life is not a video game.

As well as longbows the English also used crossbows, especially in ships, defenses, and such.

>>1430040
they had a developed culture of archery, and the longbow was a reliable and effective weapon on the battlefield.

>>1429786
There's an article on two in wikipedia

>>1429786
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zunbils

Sun cults weren't that uncommon. Romans worshiped the Invincible Sun for a long period.

>>1429786
If I remember correctly it was real, but all the stuff ingame with it is fanfiction.

>I try not to reference as I go

... Why?

Anyway I have to write essays pretty often (undergrad in history) but I've tried to break my procrastination habit the last year or two, so I tend to pluck away at stuff at 30 minutes a day and then cram all the rest in for as long as it takes on the second-last day. Then proofread and submit on the due-date.

>>1429735

I find it breaks my flow - I usually start with a pretty good idea of what I am going to write, and go back through my notes and books to find out where I got my points from.

Time consuming, but I've always worked this way.

I'm doing a Masters - at a good university. I always feel like a slacker who has fluked his way into this position.

I haven't got any more organised since my undergrad. I wish I could work in the way you describe, but I just don't seem to be able to.

>>1429818
>but I just don't seem to be able to.

>justdoit.jpg

The reason I do it in 30 minute bursts is because I'm also an unmotivated asshole, but 30 minutes is short enough that I can generally force myself to sit down and do it. Once you have a habit it's not that gruelling. To me this feels way less stressful than burning through my entire day trying to hit a deadline near the due-date, and all the other anxieties that accompany procrastination. I don't know about you, but approaching deadlines tend to eat away at the back of my head until they're out of the way, doing a little bit tends to banish that thought for the day. Besides, if you end up on a roll you don't need to stop at 30 minutes either, I find sometimes once I get on a train of thought I can keep at it for a while.

>I always feel like a slacker who has fluked his way into this position.

There's actually a name for that phenomenon, though I forget what it is. Mostly everyone who isn't a narcissist experiences it sometimes. The reality is most people you think are smart are bullshitting their way through life as well.

>>1429428
I don't think European powers would have accepted a united Greater Germany

Bismarck did it for Prussia not for Germany

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>>1429428
>hey let's add a bunch of Catholic foreigners to the Reichstag

You mean romanized celtic actual farmer peasants left defenseless after the roman troops withdrew?

>>1429410
So how come they didn't conquer Wales?

Also the Anglo-Saxons ended up buttfucked for awhile by the Danes.

>>1429419
They already had all the good parts, zero reason to waste time and men getting the rocky wasteland that is Wales too

>>1429230

That sounds like a Laudes a praise genre on Latin origin which remained in use during the Middle Ages.

>>1429254

But those usually praised kings and other rulers, not nations, right?

This is from al-Biruni's description of India around 1030 AD. It's not really 'nationalism' (you won't really find a lot of that) in the strict sense, just the usual cultural chauvinism. Still interesting though;

>We can only say, folly is an illness for which there is no medicine, and the Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs. They are haughty, foolishly vain, self-conceited, and stolid. They are by nature niggardly in communicating that which they know, and they take the greatest possible care to withhold it from men of another caste among their own people, still much more, of course from any foreigner. According to their belief, there is no other country on earth but theirs, no other race of man but theirs, and no created beings besides them have any knowledge or science whatsoever. Their haughtiness is such that, if you tell them of any science or scholar in Khurasan [Eastern Iran] and Persis [Persia], they will think you to be both an ignoramus and a liar. If they traveled and mixed with other nations, they would soon change their mind, for their ancestors were not as narrow-minded as the present generation is.

>in all manners and usages they differ from us to such a degree as to frighten their children with us, with our dress, and our ways and customs, and as to declare us to be devil's breed, and our doings as the very opposite of all that is good and proper. By the by, we must confess, in order to be just, that a similar depreciation of foreigners not only prevails among us and the Hindus, but is common to all nations towards each other.

>>1429225
A meme more tired than spooks

>>1429225
It's just a meme caused by a smug French philosopher that has been regurgitated by people on 4chan. The Holy Roman Empire was a mar geopolitical force in Medieval and early modern Europe despite not being as formal of an empire such as Rome. in my opinion the Holy Roman Empire was an epitome of efficiency considering it was a actual thousand year Reich.

>>1429220
Most likely slander. He was a popular war hero and a very rich nobleman so he probably had many rivals who wanted to fuck him up. Apparently the Duke of Brittany who pushed for his prosecution later acquired a large portion of his wealth.

He was pretty based when Vincent Cassel played him in the movie

Well, he confessed.

>>1429165
The Middle East and E. Europe were home to expansive environments suitable for cavalry maneuvers. Also they're neighbors with Steppenigs. So cavalry armies are priority.

Meanwhile in Western Europe.
>Dense forests.
>Mountains
>Hilly terrain.
>Most land ought to be used for agriculture.
Hence European Cavalry became one trick CHAAAARGE ponies.

To be fair, European heavy cavalry did perfect the art of the charge.

>>1429165

Greener, but a fuckton of either forests or mountains/hills.

Also castles. Fuckton of castles.

>>1429165
The Poles and Russians had gigantic steppes and a small population so feeding a horse was no problem. Western Europe was densely populated so keeping a horse was quite expensive, the peasants demanded more money too.

That said there were times when Medieval Europeans mounted entire 18.000 strong armies and during the latter phase of the 30 years war some Western European armies had around 50% cavalry.

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The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, a 1st Century AD Roman copy of a 4th Century BC painting by Timanthes, discovered at Pompeii, and now in the Museum at Naples

More info: http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/TimanthesIphigenia.htm

Largest version I could find (too big for the board): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Iphigeneia_sacrificed_MAN_Napoli_Inv9112.jpg

Hope that helps.

>>1429019
> not knowing who Iphigeneia was
> history board

>>1429952
>Iphigeneia
>history

>>1428972

BECAUSE IT DID NOT FIT THE JUDAIZED MUNDANE FORMALISM OF THE CHURCH.

>>1428972
There were wildly different interpretations of not just the historical events described in the gospels, but the very nature of God, Jesus, Christ, reality, and salvation.
They could have just bound everything together, but it would have been an absolute mess.

>>1428972
>scriptures rejected and excluded during the formation of the New Testament?


There are invention, and exageration of the new testament not rejected text.