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CSA was the most idiotic thing. Practically none of the seceding states held any referendum, and the couple that did had massive, MASSIVE voter intimidation. The CSA had to draft like crazy just to fight, because few wanted to fight that ridiculous war waged purely for slave owners (who were a tiny fraction of the Southern population), and the North didn't have to follow suit to keep up until years later, which would be the first time in history the U.S. used the draft.

Abraham Lincoln was absolutely based. Shame his family didn't blossom into a dynasty.

>>1284242
>Abraham Lincoln was absolutely based. Shame his family didn't blossom into a dynasty.
Monarchism is the most un-American thing in the universe.

>>1284242
>North didn't have to follow suit to keep up until years later

Both sides started drafting in 1862, fuckhead.

>>1284157
Sure:
https://archive.org/details/historyofnewfran01lesc

Marc Lescarbot was among French refugees fleeing the French king's harsh hand against Protestants. I read it cover to cover, and after reading in-between the lines of the him desperately trying to convince the king to support colonies in the New World and his own personal interest in the New World itself.

There are others but this one should take you some time

>>1284191
Thanks! I really appreciate it

>>1284195
Anytime, anon. Note his explanation of the use "Savage". It struck me as I continued to read his book and his sparing use of the word. Very interesting.

That's your average romeaboo
DUDE SQUAMATA/HAMATA LMAO
VARUS WHERE'S MY LEGIONS LMAO
DUDE CELTS SUCKS LMAO
DUDE SUCH AN HONORABLE CULTURE LMAO

And what historical podcasts would you recommend?

>>1284637
Books

Opium is a hell of a drug

>>1283879
Too many Han.

>>1283879
Communism

The non-black one.

Putting Andrew Jackson on a federal reserve note was a big 'fuck you' to Andrew Jackson.

Jackson.

Freeing hundreds of slaves is nice and all but it has little effect in comparison to the Trail of Tears. By sheer number alone, Jackson wins by a landslide.

no. gb2 /x/

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>>1283467

>Manchukuo
>real country

>>1283397
It makes China look better t.b.h. That northern cancer looks horrible.

First time I hear about this board loving it though. Actually, it's full of chinese diaspora and chinaboos.

>>1283420
maybe it was a small meme a while ago then although i quite like the flag

Interested as well

>>1283292
Six Frigates by Ian Toll. Although it is not at general as I think you are looking for - it may be a good start.

>>1283502
Not a bad start, but I was hoping for something more worldly. Most accounts focus on the royal Navy during the colonial era and the Napoleonic wars, with mentions of French of Spanish navies depending on if it's focusing on age of exploration or Napoleonic war era, so I was hoping for something that focuses on ships as a whole.

>>1283271
Napoleon, surely. Probably George Washington, Einstein, Hitler, Elizabeth II (for list in records of ruling female monarchs), Peter Higgs, Edwin Hubble, a few other theoretical physicists if their theories pan out, like Michio Kaku.

>>1283271
Assuming we don't have a MEE or anything that compromises our means of archiving our history, chance is what happens in this era on will have a library for it so there's no way our history can get lost or confused and combined with other past or future eras...

Said the Atlantans.

As far as people go, History has shown that the ones most likely to be remembered are Royalty/World Leaders philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians.

tl;dr, Hitler will be remembered in the annals of time.

>>1283350
>Said the Atlantans

o no. wut happen to atlanta. were it kill?

>>1283225
>get knocked down by your own cavalry because knights are cunts

Indeed it was.
The pope and the knights were buttmad.

>>1283225
What is it with all these summerfag threads

democracy does not mean republic.

Republics are good for the economy (compared to monarchy or despotism) because they encourage continuity of government (less likelihood of market crashes/power reshuffles) and because they encourage an extensive, nonpartisan bureaucracy to implement the law.

Developed countries tend to be republics nowadays because the nationstate ideology overcame monarchism 200 years ago. In the future, you may see nationstates decay as globalism/corporatism/"movementism" become more effective administrative apparatuses.

Ok, there have been studies to suggest that as a country gets richer, the more the middle class pushes for democracy. Certainly this idea was pushed by a political scientist called Seymour Lipsett. But as we have seen recently this isn't the entirely the case.

We see around the world incredibly rich states existing with very little democracy. For instance the Arab Oil Sheikdoms, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea until the 1990s and Taiwan until the 1990s as well.

There's no real correlation that says firstly democracy=wealth or even the reverse of wealth=democracy. When rich countries don't democratise there are usually three reasons why they don't.

1) The authoritarian regime makes enough money to pay off its people, i.e Saudi Arabia, China
2) The authoritarian goes to great lengths to prevent democratisation, i.e South Korea until the 1990s, Taiwan
3) a combination of both, i.e Singapore

So it's really a complex relationship between money, power relations and civic culture.

democracy purportedly started out in greece (scratches head). by modern standards, they are...what? average most likely; not super rich, that's for sure

and it started being practiced well before empires were established on it (united states, eruopean union, ussr (not democracy for real, but a simulacra for sure))

so, no, i don't think wealth determines it per se; i.e. pursuit of democracy.

does democracy promote enormous wealth necessarily? no, as above cases show. capitalism promotes wealth generation; that's essentially what it is. might as well be called "wealthism."

so the point of this exercise is that you can't have an economy without a political system and vice versa; but you can't attribute democracy to wealth nor wealth to democracy

Engineering feats.

Most people alive understand the principle of mechanical energy and thermal energy. Show your engineering marvels by building mechanical pulley systems, hydro power, bicycle, etc

Literally any sort of mechanical device will a genius invention to them. The wheel barrow for example is a perfect example that China invented later on(or maybe around same time).

>gun
While gunpoweder might be hard to do on your own, you could effectively utilize the fluid dynamics to create hydrolics based weapons or tools/systems. System of elevators can be done using primitive hydralics systems.

Well, with my superior knowledge of the modern day world, I would most likely become some sort of genius.

>>1282972
I die from no modern medicine.

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Current history shows that his diagnosis of the process of capital is VERY correct.

For over a century, his prediction of workers wages falling did not come true.
But for the past 40 years, wages have either dropped or stagnated.

We live in the world Marx and Engels wrote about over 150 years ago.

>>1282697
No. He died a fool, dependent upon his wife's parents for charity.

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>>1282724
He actually was supported by Engels, who ran his father's company.

His wife, Jenny supported her husband and believed in his cause.

Marx was a brilliant man who read and spoke multiple languages.

Just because you disagree with Marxian theory is no reason to call him foolish.

His influence on the world is permanent.

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>>1282426
They did.Might makes right

>>1282454
Why didn't they convert sooner?

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>>1282426
>>1282454
>>1282653
most of them just went to North Africa or the Ottoman empire. A very small number converted.. hence the "Spaniards are literally Arab meme" .. despite the fact that most "moors" were just Islamic Iberians in the first place

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>>1282278
Some imperfect beings are less imperfect than others.

>>1282278
Chomsky is an establishment fart. Worthless pseudo-contrarian.

>>1282278
What are we supposed to do then?