Describe your life as historical period.
Let me start!
> my life is like The Great War
> endless struggle for minuscule gains
>>1233467
Came here to post this.
>>1233472
Any instance of a country or civilization being poor, stupid, and desperately wanting to be somethinh else? I might be modern Philippines
>>1233477
Meant to respond to op, not first poster-chan
Given that the Out of Africa theory is correct, and the first Native Americans arrived to America via the Bering Strait, how were Mesoamericans more developed than the North Americans? The Mesoamericans had floating gardens, and terrace farms and advanced astronomical techniques while their supposed predecessors were still living in trival bands. It doesn't make much sense. Theoretically, the North Americans who've been their for much longer would have more time to develop, not to mention the abundance of the Mesoamerican jungles would probably stagnate development of civilizations.
>>1233449
Why would how long people have been living there be in any way related to how technologically advanced they are?
HOLD
>>1233458
Well more time means more chances to develop. It seems that the Mesoamericans developed incredibly quickly upon migrating down there, what with the Zapotec and Olmec ancestors setting a precednt for civilization.
So tell me, what's the absolute worst alt-history you've ever seen?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Domination
>>1233405
Don't make me do it anon, I swear I will make thousands of alternative history threads about the aboriginals.
ITT Historical figures who were most certainly autistic
>It's an "every introverted historical person was """"autistic"""" episode"
Isaac newton was not a leader, but he was such a pedantic dick that there's no fucking way he wouldn't have some kinda diagnosis today
The words "autistic" and "spook" should be auto-censored on these boards.
What did Franz Ferdinand do to deserve it?
What other significant actions did The Black Hand take?
>>1233341
imperialist oppressor, tyrant, autocrat
Tyrannicide is the greatest Heroic deed a man can achieve in his life
No one did like him, I guess.
>>1233341
Barely anyone liked him but he shouldn't have died, dude was gonna liberate Serbia anyways
Why do so many philosophers seem to live completely ordinary lives, not living their lives in any radical sense after the philosophy they developed?
The only true exceptions I can think of is perhaps Diogenes the Cynic, and Simone du Beauvoir.
>>1233192
Most philosophers are just bourgeois with too much time on their hands. People such as Voltaire or Karl Marx are examples of this.
>>1233192
I've read somewhere that philosophers of ethics agree mostly that being vegetarian is the ethical thing to do. However they aren't any more likely to be one.
I can't remember if there was more to that.
>>1233192
"I'm a philosopher" sounds a lot more attractive to chicks than "I'm a bored pretentious faggot who doesn't have a real job".
Daily reminder that India reked the Poortuguese
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Portuguese_India
A newly-unified state with hundreds of millions of citizens manages to snatch away a poorly-defended conclave controlled by a failing colonial empire?
No way!
Did Portugal have the shittiest empire ever?
Oh
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cochin_(1504)
Any examples of successful libertarian socialist societies?
That have lasted for a decent period of time.
Socialism needs a strong goverment. Libertarian socialists are just morons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPl_Y3Qdb7Y
the point isn't really to create "societies" though but to find out the best ways possible to advance human freedom and put them into practice
anarchists are criticised for not being realistic, but this is a meme argument that relies on the is/ought fallacy and the real pragmatism comes into the implementation of what's right
if something's right, it being harder to ahieve should make us more determined
>>1233123
>libertarian
>socialist
Pick one
Why were the filthy rebel scum given pardons and amenesty after they tried to destroy the Union and killed 620,000 americans. A bunch of rich men use the poor as canon fodder because a democratic election wouldnt have let them expand the industry that lined their pockets with human atrocities and they get a slap on the wrist? We should have at least gotten a Nuremberg tier purge of the upper echelons.
Wew lad.
Lincoln was elected without a single southern vote.
Illinois-tier politics should stay in the state of Illinois.
>>1233098
>Let's kill off a whole bunch of people in the land that we have just taken back
>It won't cause outrage at all
>What's reconciliation?
>>1233131
>Not punishing captial crimes because people would get upset
What happens here?
>>1233066
Vandals.
>>1233066
Human sacrifice and trade.
>>1233066
Literally nothing wrong.
>“We knew that that was not something God would want us to do…Who are we to say that that person is not worthy to live?”
>Hannah and Michael were able to enjoy 47 precious hours with their son before he passed into the presence of his heavenly father.
Why are people so fucking cruel /his/? It seems even the most colossal amounts of cruelty can pass under the guise of religious morality.
I'm not a fedora, and I believe it's cool to have religious freedom, but man, sometimes I want to strangle Christians to death.
>>1233057
And just for retards who don't get it, because there's always plenty of those: They let their baby be born and die slowly and painfully from brain spasms for 47 hours instead of aborting him, so they could feel good about themselves.
>>1233057
link
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/04/22/doctor-told-them-to-starve-their-baby-starve-to-death-because-hed-die-shortly-after-birth/
>>1233057
This happened more than 25 years ago, right? This is /his/tory, right? This isn't >>>/pol/ or >>>/x/, right? Are you lost or is this a special type of bait? "I will post a story where it doesn't belong because I am butthurt about those lifers and I want all of /his/ to feel butthurt with me."
When is the academic community going to accept the fact that the Pharaohs of the Fourth Dynasty did not build the Great Pyramids?
H
U
>>1233032
Well golly. We would love to see YOUR research. Do you have a valid argument or is this some SHITPOST bait that belongs in >>>/x/?
>Baldwin IV was educated by the historian William of Tyre (later Archbishop of Tyre and Chancellor of the kingdom), who made a disturbing discovery about the prince: he and his friends were playing one day, attempting to injure each other by driving their fingernails into each other's arms, but Baldwin felt no pain
What the fuck?
Was all medieval era entertainment this stupid?
>>1232999
All young boys' entertainment is that stupid. You find seven and eight year old boys still trying to do things like this.
Sounds more like kids being kids than any sort of medieval viciousness.
I didn't really get up to stupid shit as a kid but I know plenty of people who did.
We don't know enough about real medieval entertainment, but chances are that kids really just played with each other, adults drank and talked about stuff.
Nobility entertainment was where you saw dudes recite poems to music in the court, and they'd just sit there for hour listening to some guy talk about Siegfried or Roland and how many dudes they could kill. In the High Middle Ages Women were becoming a bit more influential, and you had the somewhat legendary court of Eleanor of Aquitaine where now you find the Arthurian Romances being created, where they focus less on how many people were killed and more on the intrigue of courts and things that would appeal to women as well.
The high middle ages also saw the gradual reintroduction of plays and what now. Drama just didn't happen in Europe for a long time during the fall of the Roman Empire to this point, it just wasn't on anybody's minds. That was until (as some legend dictates) some German (i think?) parish decided to put on a really short play for Easter. It was from that point that drama grew again, and you would find in the 14th and 15th centuries that one of the most popular types of plays other than the "Miracle Plays" was the Allegory, where character would be named certain concepts and it would usually have a clear moral and message.
Other entertainment for all kinds of people could be found in going to the fairs and talking and gossiping there, feasts for talking, country dances, Carnival, and parades.
Some entertainment was stupid, Henry II for instance had the "flatuist" Roland the Farter in his service who was so well liked by the King that he was given estates so long as every year he would perform his signature "one jump, a whistle, and a fart" on Christmas.
What's the biggest /his/ fail you've noticed/heard of in video games that were made in the last 10 years?
>>1232767
Civ 5 didn't include "Minoan" or "Hittite" civs, but did include "Zulu", "Netherlands" and some formal disparity between "Iroquois" and "Sioux" because "reasons", even though those representations and differentiations had relative jack dick to do with the world's societal development. They were only a sycophantic inclusion for a lame attempt at political correctness, as was including more than one female leader.
Homefront, bigest lolz in Murica stories.
>>1232808
>those representations and differentiations had relative jack dick to do with the world's societal development.
did you ever stop to think that is not the basis on why civs are included?
>United
>Soviet
>Socialist
>Republics
Pic related
Tell me why I'm 100% correct about this. I am implying that the implications of the words used to describe the "Soviet Union"are incorrect.
>Republics
You think the country constituted some form of monarchy?
>>1232760
>Monarchy
>Rule of one
Yes it did.
>>1232738
>United
Yes
>Soviet
Initially, but later the Soviets were basically vestigial.
>Socialist
More or less, not that socialist but socialist no less.
>Republics
Yes, defo republics.