Hey /his/, I got a question about armor. In the eras where plate armor was in use, either as cermonial, for duels, or large scale combat, what did the common soldier wear? Was it simple chainmail and a helmut? Did they just wear borderline normal clothes with indicators who they're fighting for? pic related could not have been common.
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Most commonly they would wear either leather or chain mail.
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At the bare minimum everyone would have a helmet or at least a padded coif. Even a glancing blow to the head might kill you so if you're going to invest in one piece of armor it should be a helmet.
Most poorer soldiers might have a gambeson, slightly less poor soldiers might have a brigandine or coat of plates. Mail hauberks actually started to become less popular, because they were a lot harder to make and didn't offer enough of an advantage to justify the price.
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>>1405894
I doubt that sword was ever used with that armor. A one handed dueling sword wouldn't do much good against armored opponents.
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The First Council of Ephesus laid out the doctrine of Hypostatic Union. Namely, Jesus had two distinct natures, one divine, one human, united in a single body.
This is very important, because it means the human nature of Jesus developed more or less as anyone else. He grew, had puberty, learned to speak and walk just like a normal human being. The human nature was wholly human, just as the divine nature was wholly divine.
And human nature begins at conception. Sperm and egg must unite to produce a zygote, which grows into a fetus. Now, I can almost hear someone screaming "IMMACULATE CONCEPTION" at this point, but I need to remind you all, that Immaculate Conception is a doctrine that not only is Catholic, but is also concerning Mary, mother of Christ. Rather, there was Virgin Birth, which is the divine part of the equation, the Logos becoming flesh, and the second nature in the same body.
But, speaking of Mary, it is well attested to by her mention of being perfectly favored that she was sinless. And to give in to vile lusts, even for conception, is sinful. Thus, it must be concluded that Jesus was born sans lust. And it would be impossible for a young, perhaps even teenaged girl, to see her lord and lawful husband, to feel him inside her vagina, without feeling the tremors of lust.
No, it can be pretty conclusively established that Jesus was born of Sodomy. Sodomy between man and wife, but Sodomy nonetheless. Probably a bit of ejaculate leaking out of the anus and into the vagina. And because Maria certainly did not want such sexual contact, due to her sinless nature, we must regretfully conclude that at least by modern notions (Ancient sexual notions, of course, being much different, and they were married.) that Jesus's human nature was born of rape.
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Interesting, but that's very unlikely
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>anal=rape
Ok
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Oh shit.
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Communists, democrats, fascists and islamists all got their fair chance to rule the society to try their best at what they see as solution to the all problems. Why doesn't Libertarians never got to the power?! Is there a deep historical reason for that?
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Libertarian utopia sounds like a shitty place to live to vast majority of people
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>>1405636
Because the principle behind libertatian government is to concede power. The majority of people who enter politics are seeking power.
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>>1405666
this. it's a paradox that can't be rectified with human nature. it's like establishing a lottery system to benefit poor people. it might payout $10 billion a year but 99% of those poor people are getting scammed and getting poorer and poorer playing while
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Best /his/ games for a romeaboo? And general /his/ vidya thread
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>>1405625
Never actually played Ryse but someone asked if I was involved with making the game after I went full romeaboo mode one time. Something something about Roman resolve to win a war was unshakable because to Romans Rome represented civilization and for Rome to lose a war was for Romans to let the the light of civilization be stolen from all of humanity.
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>>1405625
>"This board is dedicated to the discussion of history and the other humanities such as philosophy, religion, law, classical artwork, archeology, anthropology, ancient languages, etc."
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>>1405625
So apperantly Activision was going to make a CoD game set in Ancient Rome. Call of Duty: Roman Wars. It was part of a contest of developers under Activision to make a unique CoD game. It was shown to the heads at Activision and they considered it but wouldn't attach it to the CoD name which the developers really wanted so they never made it.
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Here's a blurry pic from the new CIV VI video, showing all the leaders. Can anyone clear it up and make out who they are?
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so that leaked list going around was fake and gay
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Bismarck, Saladin, Guy de Lusignan, Carol I, chinese emperor
roman empress, Catherine II, William the Silent, Charles II of Spain, some arab shit
scandinavian king, fucking Ghandi, mongol leader,
fuck it
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I think I see Peter the Great (of Russia)
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Fairy tale and folklore thread
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Let's talk about stories, /his/
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>>1405007
Just getting this out of the way. No need to thank me.
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After the days of light came, we walked the earth and prospered and were given free will, but as we prospered we became complacent and evil and drowned in our own sins.
It is only then that the creator spoke to us and released us from his bondage and given us freedom.
He told us to be good but our greed could not be overcome and we were banished across the earth to pay for the sins of the world.
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>>1405171
What the fuck are you talking about
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What events were so catastrophic people thought the world was about to end?
>The Huns threw themselves on the Alans, the Alans on the Goths, the Goths on the Taifali and Sarmati. Expelled from their homeland, the Goths
have expelled us from Illyricum, and it is not yet ended. We are at the end of the world.
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The Black Death always amazes me. Over half of Europe's population dying in a few years is just crazy.
They were entirely justified in believing the world was ending. If the plague had been just a little worse, it really would have (for Europe at least).
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Huns
Black death
WWI
Obama
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When Rome got sacked in 410 by that two-faced traitor Alaric. The news traveled the known world and everything started to change. All through Europe, the Mediterranean, and Aftrica art and architecture started regressing and expressed a need for order and stability. No more whimsical flourishes or herioc icons, it was stark and geometric and stank of fear and insecurity. Through art we now view this as the beginning of the Dark Ages.
meanwhile the Eastern Empire was swimming in gold, spices, bitches, and pubescent houseboys for all
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Prove that Augustus wasn't the best leader history has seen
>Protip: you can't
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>proving a negative
we're sposta be having legitimate discussions on this board, or at least strive to
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>>1404914
touché
point still stands tho
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>>1404905
This guy was better.
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>be West African hundreds of thousands of years before west Africans even existed
>120,000 years old Skhul and Qafzeh hominids of Israel
have a modern West African-looking skull[16] with archaic features, specifically mandibular prognathism (jutting lower jaw) and Supraorbital ridges (brow ridges).
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Skhul_and_Qafzeh_hominids&oldid=487907008#cite_note-16
post anachronistic anomalies here
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>be Mongoloid 750k years before it was even cool to be Chinese
750,000 years ago Peking Man with Mongoloid features
"On the Relevance of the Regional Continuity Features of the Face in East Asia" also found that a form of facial flatness is unique to China (i.e. only appears there at high frequency, very rarely elsewhere)
Shovel-shaped incisors are commonly cited as evidence for regional continuity in China.
"It is the pattern of shoveling that identities as an East Asian regional feature, not just the occurrence of shoveling of any sort
a non-depressed nasal root, non-projecting perpendicularly oriented nasal bones and facial flatness are unique to the Chinese region in the fossil record and may be evidence for limited regional continuity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiregional_origin_of_modern_humans#China
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do this count?
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/the-brain-2/28-what-happened-to-hominids-who-were-smarter-than-us
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>>1404878
>Our results thus revealed that shape variability of early AMH was highest among all tested groups, i.e., within a sample of the genus Homo embracing the last 1.8 million years. The shortest connections between early AMH are either with other specimens of this group or recent modern humans, for instance, Omo 2 [recently dated to ~195 ka (1)] and LH 18, two of the earliest east African candidates for the emergence of modern human morphology (18), and the Levantine Qafzeh 6 connect with recent Australian aboriginals (cf. ref. 19). We also find a connection between 3,500-km-distant sites in the Levant and northwest Africa, i.e., between the more archaic looking Jebel Irhoud 1 and Skhul 5, whereas Jebel Irhoud 2 connects to recent Europeans. Qafzeh 9 (Levant) is linked to a European UP specimen. We find, however, no single link between Neanderthals and AMH, including Upper Paleolithic specimens.
You have no clue what you're talking about.
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Serously what was his fucking problem ?
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>>1404819
he did not wan't his country to be Venezuela?
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>>1404819
He did not want his country to be Venezuela?
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>>1404819
he did not wan't his country to be Venezuela?
recently started playing as Aq qoyunlu in EUIV and have had my autism triggered. What is known about them other than their name translates to "White Sheep"?
also, any interesting minor EUIV states that often get overlooked?
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>>1404507
And kara koyunlu means black sheep welcome to turkish names.
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Isn't that location where those spoopy White Huns settled down in? Perhaps it has something to do with that.
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>>1404507
>Aq qoyunlu
>White Sheep
It doesn't looks like sheep for me.
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Why were Spanish tercios so superior in 16th and 17th century?
Even when Spain lost battle, it was usually because non-Spanish formations cracked.
Others adopted same tactics, but nothing approached the quality of Spanish formations.
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Probably a convergence of good stats timming ( and their mangas and privados hace them some advantage)
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tercios superiority slowly fell down along with the range of the musket increased
their superiority in close combat and h2h combat became irrevelant
exactly the same happened to the chinese and japanese armies in the 19th
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Spanish tercios were what you call an elite army. High discipline, top equipment, loyalty and shit.
Also the Tercios were usually named as "los viejos tercios" "the old tercios" because of the advanced age of the soldiers. An old veteran who fought tons of battles and survived has more value 10 newbies.
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Also this. Tercios fell together with the pike. These soldiers were famous in Europe for being absolute savages in close combat and never giving up. The improvement of fire weapons and artillery made them completely obsolete.
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>"I will build a great wall – and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me – and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our northern border, and I will make Britannia pay for that wall. Mark my words."
Hadrian
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It's a shame that Hadrian only ever seems to get recognition for a wall be really didn't give that much of a shit about when he did so many other things and was generally one of the more interesting emperors of Rome.
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>I will unite all Roman peoples under one vexillum
What did he mean by this?
Simple question: Are humans naturally good or bad?
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>>1403997
humans are naturally good humans. which is bad
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>>1403997
Humans are naturally very clever simians.
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We're all born with Original Sin
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Friendly reminder that if you're a Catholic 2016-07-12 16:13:51 Post No.1403912
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Friendly reminder that if you're a Catholic
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you're bound by faith to worship Allah.
>The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth,(5) who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God.
>But the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator. In the first place amongst these there are the Muslims, who, professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore the one and merciful God, who on the last day will judge mankind.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html
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Wew unto ye.
Wew indeed.
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Bump for Allah.
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>>1403912
"Allah" is Arabic for "God". Arab-speaking Christians refer to God as Allah. It's just a just a different word, same concept.