So this is how Europe was born
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I don't fucking care you dumb snowcuck
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No. It seems there were three more or less contemporary groups in Germany, France, and Spain, which were very similar in their material culture.
One or all were influenced by or ruled by people from the Yamna culture group.
Ideas diffused between them in all directions.
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Why are we told to remember the Alamo?
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Because it's shitty propaganda that tries to sweep the fact that Texan founders were squatters and slave owners, under the rug.
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As a Texan who had to take a Texan history class, I can say that, without a doubt, the Texan revolution was a cluster fuck full of incompetent leaders. If the Texan Bureaucracy had any competence at all, they could have easily held the Alamo.
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>>1375152
Because 'waaaah Santa Ana is LITERALLY Satan!'
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What was the best year to be born to witness the most 'happenings' historically? Let's be super generous and assume you live to be 80 and can travel easily.
>be born in 1770
>be 6 when the US Revolution starts
>13 when the US Revolution ends
>19 when the French Revolution starts
>23 when the French King is executed
>35 during the Battle of Austerlitz
>36 during the Battle of Jena
>41 during Napoleon's fun times in Russia
>45 during the Battle of Waterloo
>55 when the first railway is opened
>57 when the first photograph is taken
>60 during the 1830 Revolutions
>66 during the Alamo
>78 during the 1848 Revolutions and the Mexican-American War
BONUS POINTS: find a famous guy that was born around that year. My choice: Metternich (1773-1859)
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I'm sure there are plenty of happenings in store for our generation.
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>>1375132
Probably being born right before the civil war and seeing the civil war, ww1, and then ww2
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>>1375132
65 million BC so i could see the dinos explode
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Siberia before the 19th century 2016-07-05 17:54:44 Post No.1375060
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Siberia before the 19th century
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Most maps of the Russian Empire show it as expanding very far into the east in pretty early dates. I know that after defeating the tatar khanates successors of the Golden Horde, there wasn't much resistance basically because almost nobody lives in Siberia and the Far East, but the Trans-Siberian Railway was started at the end of the 19th century.
So before the 19th century how much control over the peoples of Siberia and the Far East did the russians actually have? Were the inhabitants of those remote areas actually ruled by Moscow/St. Petersburg beyond symbolical protocols? Was it basically a Wild Eas with no law? By the inhabitants I mean both the natives and the ethnic russian settlers.
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There was nothing to rule over. Natives lived their life, which was simple, no need to Russian involvement. Later when the Russian settlers came the Russian state expanded their control.
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>>1375060
There was a large land empire called Tartaria which has been written out of history, you can see it on old maps from as late as the 18th century
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>>1376140
But how did the power of the state reach that far? It must've been fucking months of travel.
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What are some historical theories and mysteries that can't or will likely never be solved?
(for example, the princes in the tower)
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The location of the Tomb of Alexander the Great
The Roanoke Colony incident
Black Dahlia murder
Zodiac Murder
Mary Celeste
The abandonment of Teotihuacan
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Weren't they murdered by Richard III?
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The identity of Baron von Ungern-Sternberg's heir.
The location of Hitler's remains.
The location/true nature of the Holy Grail.
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Democracies can only work if the people are virtuous. This observation can be found in the works of many diverse workers. Montesquieu cliamed that a monarchy runs on the monarch's desire for glory while a republic runs on the virtue of its people. We even see this basic assumption from an audience as diverce as revolutionairies as Franklin, Rousseau and Robespierre to anti-democrats like Voltaire and Burke. What they disagree on is not whether virtue is required, but whether the masses can be virtuous enough.
On the other hand, the problem with a monarchy is obvious: there is no guarantee that the monarch will be good, competent or logical. An evil monarch, an incompetent monarch or a monarch that rules entirely by his own whims can singlehandedly ruin a nation. The severely inbred Charles II for example drove Spain from the height of its power to being a bargaining chip used by the other powers of Europe.
So how do we solve these problems? How do we either ensure the virtue of the masses (or at least their devotion to the volonté générale over the volonté de tous) and/or how do we ensure a steady line of competent monarchs (or at least manage to somehow maximize the power of the competent while at the exact same time with the exact same system minimizing the power of the incompetent)?
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Tie the weight of a person's vote to their intelligence and/or stake in the success of the society?
E.g. a young adult has a bigger stake than someone on their deathbed
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Aristocratic Republic with elitist schools for budding statesmen. Imagine statesmen drilled like Prussian officers. The Republic elects leaders to serve terms of 4 years.
There are 'nationals' (non-citizens born in the country), and citizens. Only a small % of the population become citizens. Citizenship is not guaranteed by birth, it is a voluntary position a boy takes at ages 14-15. He will be drilled through elite education (if he is fit for it). At 21 he will be either accepted as a citizen or rejected. Every year there is a national wide celebration/holiday called "citizen's day", citizens become a respected and responsible member of society.
Citizens are allowed to 'vote' when they are also landowners, they will vote for regional representatives which will then form a people's assembly that is advisory to the main aristocratic assembly. Similar to the HoL and HoC in some ways.
>inb4 *tips Plato*
>inb4 back2/pol/
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>>1374879
>E.g. a young adult has a bigger stake than someone on their deathbed
This is where your proposal collapses. How would someone on his deathbed not have a stake in the success of a society? Would an old man not want to leave behind a proper environment for his children grandchildren and greatgrandchildren? Why would his opinion hold less value than that of a snotnosed brat who thinks he knows everything despite his lack of experience in both life and politics?
The problem with meritocracies is that you have to ask by what standards merit is judged, and who judges this merit.
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Can anyone in a nation state truly say they are free?
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What do you mean?
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I am free
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Freedom to do what?
Freedom from what?
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General tank discussion thread.
Models accepted
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Best tank of WW2. Prove me wrong.
>protip: you can't
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oops, forgot picture
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>>1375881
The M4 Sherman was cheaper to produce and had much, much better mechanical reliability, and much, much better crew arrangements.
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Incredible monuments from the past that no one would suspect exist 2016-07-05 15:33:39 Post No.1374671
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Incredible monuments from the past that no one would suspect exist
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Orney, Scotland.
This is how those fuckers lived in the fucking neolithic (pic related),
"The dwellings contain a number of stone-built pieces of furniture, including cupboards, dressers, seats, and storage boxes. Each dwelling was entered through a low doorway that had a stone slab door that could be closed "by a bar that slid in bar-holes cut in the stone door jambs".[9] A sophisticated drainage system was incorporated into the village's design. It included a primitive form of toilet in each dwelling."
They had toilets, fucking tolets, the settlement dates back to 3180 BC, fucking late neolthic, it's amazing what these people achieved, so isolated and so far back in time.
"The dwellings contain a number of stone-built pieces of furniture, including cupboards, dressers, seats, and storage boxes."
This is AMAZING.
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Lol it's like the Flintstones
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Lmao
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>>1374682
You know what's really fucked up? Dino, the dinosaur pet from the Flintstones, used to talk in the first episode but in subsequent episode's he can only bark like a retard. Did they give him a dino-lobotomy or something?
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What aspects made for a prosperous and culturally influential ancient society like Greece and Rome.
Was it just iq?
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>warm but not tropical med climate
>ease of access to the wealthiest & advanced areas of the region
>insular tribal culture led to competition being a virtue
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>iq
That don't explain while a civilization may overtake the other.
Like why Rome declined
>Rome declined because of mixing with slaves from other high iq places such as Carthage and Egypt
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Asians have a significantly higher IQ.
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Whatever happened to this guy's armor?
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>*blocks your path*
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He wanted roll damage
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>>1374603
When he died they couldn't get it off him
Will they one day be seen as mythical figures that didn't exist?
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>mythical figures
They already are
>that didn't exist
No, why would that happen?
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In a few decades the only one they'll discuss is George Washington
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>>1374599
Nuclear war.
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What's the deal with slavery /his/? How come it was so common through out history? You'd figure slaves would constantly revolt against their masters. You'd expect that even slaves that were comparatively better treated, like house negros or high level Roman slaves with easy access to their masters would kill them simply out of spite.
What am I missing here? Does it have anything to do with feudalism where most people didn't work for money but just to have something to eat so basically slavery was all the same?
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>What am I missing here
Slaves were/still are often the spoils of war, and if you get your ass kicked by a superior military power to the point where they can enslave you, you generally aren't in any position to disobey.
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>>1374373
>How come it was so common through out history?
Because people are always looking for ways to cheat other people out of their labor
>You'd figure slaves would constantly revolt against their masters.
The only way to keep this from happening is to keep them illiterate and continuously terrorized.
>You'd expect that even slaves that were comparatively better treated, like house negros
They were warehoused in order to maximize profit margins
> or high level Roman slaves with easy access to their masters would kill them simply out of spite.
Romans had a different attitude towards slavery than American southerners because they viewed it as a civilizing process and were frequently freed upon their masters death (as opposed to the southerners who saw it in terms of racial determinism) a high level slave would have wanted to stay in his master's good graces because he'd be looking for employment after securing his freedom
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Liberty is a modern ideal.
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How would China have fared in WW2 if they had legendary figures like Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei to lead them?
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Poorly since everybody was trying to learn how adjust from ww1 tactics, even well into ww2 on the African front.
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>>1374312
Why would having some of the greatest strategists in history be a handicap to them? You don't make much sense desu famuri.
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>>1374319
Don't over purchase into memes.
If you look at the Africa campaign, you'll see one general gaining 500 miles because of land because of ineffective tread pins on enemy tanks, then losing 500 miles because they have limited fuel. No grandmaster tactics here or there. Their scouts would smell blood and then they would yolo.
The very early battles in the war were guessing games.
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ITT: We discuss the denial of holodomor.
Worse than the holocaust?
Probably.
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