I'll start:
>Lebanese
>Were Phoenica and Carthage.
>>3246195
I'll bite. Wasn't there a recent study that came out after the Lebanese were confirmed WUZ that proved that the modern Greeks are the same as the ancient ones.
>>3246195
Modern Greeks and Italians are descended from ancient Greeks and Romans.
German people literally wuz Dichter und Denker not so long ago
Not really history related but more on the side of psychology.
Ive had the sudden realization that the fear of spiders at least in the west was almost not existant (or at least not recorded) compared to the start of the 20th century,even more noticable in the mids of said such.
Lets discuss.
>>3246048
Isn't feat of bugs and creepy crawlies just a evolutionary thing? Shouldn't you be asking /sci/ about this sort of stuff?
>>3246086
Yes it clearly is.
But it was never recorded even in west mythology or religion to fear spiders.
Rats,roaches,Locust,fleas...you name it but never spiders.
Its clearly evolutionary,so thats the question.
If its clear the fear for spiders in general and as you say it makes sense,why did it just started to pop up in the west in the early and mid 20th century?
I miss threads like this on /his/
Is this the most perfect man in human history? Name one thing he did wrong.
Let his wife browbeat him into accepting shitty Tiberius as his successor.
kill people
>>3245794
Tiberius was a better man than Augustus. Tiberius only started his reign of terror at the end of his reign, when he was bitter and worn out. Augustus started his naked grab for power with atrocities and murders.
Any criticisms? I've heard it said that this book is damning evidence of the evil of communist ideology (or at least ideology in general), is that true?
The gulag literature is really rich. As for exposing the evils of communism it's only the tip of the iceberg. They've done far worse so I almost pity the apologists.
It wasn't real communism.
Some of the objections I have heard revolve around the fact that nearly all of the stories not from the author's perspective are "just hearsay" without solid evidence and could therefore be complete fabrication. Others object that the work whitewashes all of the prisoners of the labor camp system as being victims of the Stalinist system when some of them really deserved to be there for committing crimes, but I don't really think that is true if you read the books. It is certainly a harsh indictment of the USSR in the Stalinist period, and a sad record of man's capacity to inflict terrible cruelties upon himself.
Can someone explain certain aspects of Christian doctrine to me, particularly the concept of God's grace, will, plan, and predestination, etc?
So if God has predetermined everything, and everything happens for a reason, and God wills everything, than there is no actual free will, right? So if a good person is murdered, that was god's will, therefore the one who murdered that person was also exercising God's will and therefore blameless, right?
Seems kind of fucked up. Is this just a Calvinist thing or is all of Christianity like that?
>>3245429
God knows everything, he hasn't predetermined everything. Everything is a consequence, and God is aware of everything, but not everything is the will of God, for he himself has given us Free will.
If a good person is murdered, that's a consequence of someone else's will, not God. God lets it happen because he doesn't meddle in the matters of humans that much, his intention is that people worship him and help each other out of their own will.
>>3245429
You're still thinking like a human, and not a character on a stage. Even if Macbeth is ordered by the script to kill his king, he still has to be punished for it
>>3245429
The usual explanation is that God is not only omniscient but omnipotent, and thus capable of blinding himself as to the actions of specific individuals, and in this fashion, gives you a soul (even if this is treading on the "Can God make a rock so big he can't lift it" conundrum.)
It made a little more sense under the original Hebrew model, where angels don't have free will, as he did not do this for them (or, going further back, when he was neither omnipotent nor omniscient, just the "mightiest" of each), but I suppose it's among the better "problem of evil" arguments.
Much like us, God compartmentalizes.
what went wrong?
>>3245211
gela caput mundi mbariceddu
>>3245211
Those fucking Mamertines.
What is the name of the painting on top ?
Sorry if its wrong board to ask
>>3245070
Try "Ryse art"
>>3245296
Ryse did actually have some good artwork in it.
>>3245070
This image is dumb.
Just how common was anti-semitism in the Western world until the holocaust happened?
It wasn't gas all the Jews, it was just normal levels of dislike.
Similar to today, really
The holocaust, and the Nazis, did more to make discrimination, and racism, taboo than any other thing in history.
It matter where you were. Jews in Italy didn't have it as bad as Jews in England.
Why were crusaders so ineffective?
>>3244711
They were pretty sucessful inside Europe. In the balkans and greece and in iberian peninsula they were massive victorious.
>>3244723
Dude white people conquered the entire world, from the english, to the french, from the portuguese, to the dutch and spaniards and then americans.
>>3244754
>Dude white people conquered the entire world
I don't see any wh*Tes here bro.
Your logic is false! You cherry picked the battle where peasants went ahead of the actual army and got lost. Why don't you show the battles and sieges that happened after this battle?
Turks are not good soldiers. Mongols are good soldiers. Turks do nothing in life other than get assimilated by cultures around them and lie to themselves about them being the best. And they keep getting raped by mongols. (Both seljuk and ottoman empires were destroyed by mongols in two different wars)
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
Were the people in the middle ages racist? Like, would england have a problem with a german king?
>>3244574
>Were the people in the middle ages racist?
To an extent.
>Like, would england have a problem with a german king?
Yes, very much so.
>>3244574
Define "people"
If you mean the aristocracy and other people with power, yes to both questions
If you mean the general mob, yes somewhat to the first question and not really to the second question.
wh*Tes were not considered as people here.
Were there black berbers/moors?
Go to Morocco and see how many black people you can find
In the North? No.
>>3244385
I believe one of the Numidian groups, the Maures, was known to have darker skin and sometimes called the 'western Ethiopians'. This was back in Roman times and 'Ethiopia' was the name for all sub-sahara Africa at the time.
Why is killing people viewed almost universally as the utmost sin/crime?
It seems that most cultures have it as the ultimate prohibition, as a direct-to-hell ticket over any other kind of crime. I understand that life must be protected to keep the species, nation, whatever, but in some places it goes as far as letting your village be entirely robbed or pillaged if by that you avoid killing your enemy.
How does this prohibition, and to those levels, develop?
>inb4 edgy, sociopath, etc
I don't get why crimes that (IMO) are worse, like rape or torture are always considered lower than murder, almost in every culture AFAIK.
>>3244323
>I understand that life must be protected to keep the species, nation, whatever
this is why life must be protected? good god man
>>3244323
Would you want to be killed? Golden rule faggot.
>>3244506
Then why aren't rape and torture condemned in the same way, historically?
Is the HRE the country which suffered the most throughout history?
>>3244133
>tfw /his/ can never have a legitimate discussion about the HRE without >H>R>E taking up the entire thread
>>3244133
>ywn never live in a world where Charles V united all of the HRE with Italy, Spain and the south of France and created a real succesor to the Roman empire that would exist for atleast 1000 years.
>>3244241
>ywn live in a world where Western Europe is split between the Angevin Empire and the Greater HRE
how prevalent were manlets throughout history?
The one on the right is abnormally large.
>>3244124
the greatest sniper of all time was a manlet
>>3244124
>5'11 vs 6'0
Called one of 18 most important battles in history the Battle of Warsaw was the most decisive event of the Polish-Bolshevik War (Feb.1919 - Oct.1920) which stopped the invading communists from joining the revolutionaries in Germany. They will never be this close from taking the Western Europe again. It was a joint effort by Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians (yeah), Hungarians, French, Latvians, Estonians, Americans and at least one Brit.
Regardless of who the war did or didn't save it's a very interesting event (just like all so-called Pygmy Wars after WWI) and sadly unknown in the West because it was such an embarassment for the USSR that naturally they didn't like to talk about it after they already conquered that part of Europe in WWII.
The war was more dynamic than WWI and so Charles de Gaulle who fought there as a volunteer adapted this style later into his career.
Key battles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Minsk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Daugavpils
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev_Offensive_(1920)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Warsaw_(1920)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Niemen_River
Key people (aside from Lenin, Stalin and the already mentioned de Gaulle)
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Pi%C5%82sudski
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Jordan-Rozwadowski
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Haller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Foch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxime_Weygand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merian_C._Cooper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symon_Petliura
I mean it's on August 15th.
>>3244074
But you guys got fucked by commies in the end.
>>3245629
Western Europe? No, not really.