How come Spain barely colonized Africa?
Africa was colonising them.
Spain was weak when the massive colonization of Africa happened.
>>1181581
Okay but why didn't they try chipping away at the Ottoman's African possessions, or more of Morocco at the least when they weren't so weak?
>"Whoever claims to be noble must conduct himself nobly."
What does /his/ think about this concept? How real do you think it was in the past times? Basically it comes down to "try not to be a cunt to those below you". It included various things from helping the poor, acting in a civilized manner whatever the cause and generally not abusing your power and wealth, and instead using them to improve the community you rule over.
Today people mostly view lord-peasant relations as outright abuse and mistreatment. I'm not denying such stuff happened but we also often neglect other possible sides of those relations.
Come on you fags this is interesting
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2013/12/whatever-happened-noblesse-oblige.html
interesting read, it shows from a surviving example how noblesse oblige would've actually worked
That's part of chivalry and courtesy. It's quite specifically a code of conduct that appeared in France in the Middle Ages, and was most prominent from the 12th to the 14th century.
It was very real as an ideal, and more real in practice than one might think.
part of the trouble is that for everyone noble or royal who did act with noblesse oblige, there were 5 more who did not
What does /his/ think about this
I think it's stupid to use a well known liar for your mod on history's greatest empire.
>>1180839
What empire are you talking about Anon?
>>1180832
It's pretty fun.
>>1180839
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What makes gold a very valuable commodity throughout history?
It looks pretty.
It's shiny and rare
>got a ban warning for making a thread about the Crimean war
Could we get mods who actually know about history?
Was the fact that the communist managed to survive the long march the biggest tragedy of Chinas history?
>>1179968
The biggest tragedy in China's history is that Sun Yat Sen died prematurely and the KMT was left in the hands of Chiang "Gay" Shek
>>1179972
>Impying Sun Yat Sen would have done a better job at keeping the commies at bay.
>>1179978
Probably, we know how things ended with Chiang in charge.
17th century European army vs 100 AD Roman legion.
Who wins if they both have equal numbers, fight in plain terrain and have the average army composition of their day?
Delete your stupid thread.
>>1179835
wewlad
OP is a faggot
Are there any books that analyse and explain the nazi's beliefs in occultism?
I've heard of Kenneth Hite's book, but I'm not sure if I trust an video game writer to teach me history
Miguel Serrano and Savitri Devi took the nazi occult shit and cranked the memes up to 11.
>>1179600
>Miguel Serrano was a Chilean diplomat, journalist and author of poetry, books on spiritual questing and Esoteric Hitlerism.
>Chilean
>>1179588
Yes there is. Use Google.
What happened to it? For centuries, people in Europe and America were taught the classical liberal arts education of the trivium (grammar, logic and rhetoric) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy). This would, of course, be bolstered by other studies such as geology, philosophy, theology or what have you but for centuries it seemed to work and produced our great thinkers and leaders.
So what happened? Why has it fallen by the wayside, seemingly becoming hijacked by/associated with the idea of lazy/useless young people and crap like gender studies and the like? At the same time there's an increasing emphasis on going to school to find a job or career as opposed to going to become an educated, virtuous, enlightened man. What caused that change and is there any way to get back to it?
A liberal arts education today has little value, since the world labor supply exceeds the world supply of capital. 50,000,000 more liberal arts-educated people would not expand the economy as much as 50,000,000 more people educated in diverse subject matter.
Also recall that education was the purview of the wealthy before public schools became widespread. Being wealthy precludes the need for functional education in welding or structural engineering, for example.
Also consider that even in primary school, we know far more about the natural world than our ancestors, so more and more of the curriculum is taken up by ideas like "evolution" and "ecology" and socially useful subjects like drug prevention or civics.
>>1179612
So I guess that brings up the question of why even have an education in the first place? Just give kids a basic grade school education then start them in vocational schools as early as possible. There's no real value placed on knowledge anymore because it seems that the options are "GOTTA WORK GONNA BE A STEMLORD" or "fuck you gonna major in gender studies with a focus on undocumented Amazonian tribes". It just seems that education as a whole has become far more compartmentalized with everything getting its own niche and less broad with the idea of creating a well-rounded individual.
>>1180955
Well take it from the name artes liberales, can be interpreted as "arts" for the free men.
As Cicero said, you are little different than a slave if you have to get up in the morning and toil until sunset in order to eat.
Hence liberal arts should be reserved for the rich. It was reserved for the rich in early 20st, century and beyond. Thank FDR's GI bill that eventually made everyone thinking they are entitled for a college education.
If you have to work in order to eat, you shouldn't study liberal arts, humanities etc.
Tell me about this guy.
All I know about him is that he was a religious nutjob that cucked his way into the royal family.
Fucked more women in a day with his gargantuan penis than your average anon will fuck in his entire life.
>>1179497
He is Russian's greatest love machine. Also he is a real life wizard.
>Poisoned by Cyanide that enough to kill elephants.
>Still alive
>Get shots many time including on the head.
>Still alive and tried to fight back.
>Get bludgeoned on the head carried to the river nearby.
>Still fucking alive and tried to escape.
>Drowned into ice cold river
>Finally dead.
>>1179497
He was a certain man who lived in Russia long ago
I have something you might be interested in, /his/.
It's a short book from 1947 written by American labor journalist Ralph Chaplin. In it, he gives an overview of the methods by which organized Communists infiltrated labor unions and bent them to the ends of the USA Communist Party, acting as a liaison for the Soviet Union. He goes into great detail of old-school infiltration and propaganda tactics, and provides many examples of how US unions fell to such influence.
In all, lots of neat early-20th century labor history here. The names Chaplin brings up include Harry Bridges, Earl Browder, Joseph Curran, Michael J. Quill and Ben Gold.
Since I couldn't find a copy of it online, I decided to photograph and transcribe the book and share it with you guys. Hope you enjoy it.
https://www.mediafire.com/?a6bt6avnq1t6e9k
>>1178683
Some choice excerpts, along with some key illustrations:
"Red baiting" is held up to the public in general and to the labor movement in particular as a very vile and reprehensible thing. So efficient has been the work of the publicity machinery of the party that the term itself has become a kind of synonym for die-hard reaction and labor hatred. The assumption is that there is no answer to the accusation. When they "put the finger on you" as a "red baiter" the jig is up. The only thing you can do is hang your head in shame as though you had been caught stealing pennies from a blind man or trying to beat your wife.
"Red baiter!" shouts the undercover Communist in the union hall whenever anyone dares to oppose his will. Immediate and energetic denial is expected, and if this is not forthcoming, you are pigeon-holed and catalogued as an outstanding example of everything unprogressive and reactionary. In other words, if you do not permit the Communist or apologist to go unchallenged and unopposed, you are forthwith branded with this Muscovite mark of Cain - and that's all there is to it. Every good American with a union card in his pocket should be proud to be called a "red baiter." He should be proud to include Communists among his enemies.
>>1178696
>"Red baiter!" shouts the undercover Communist in the union hall whenever anyone dares to oppose his will. Immediate and energetic denial is expected, and if this is not forthcoming, you are pigeon-holed and catalogued as an outstanding example of everything unprogressive and reactionary
It seems nothing has changed.
Good find, OP.
>>1178696
A few quotations from communist books, theses and documents will give an equally clear picture of the sort of propaganda and indoctrination which enabled Harry Bridges and his party-trained henchmen to split the West Coast labor movement into two parts. Let us start with what Earl Browder had to say about the CIO at the time the dual organization was in the midst of its first onslaught:
"The leaders of the CIO have shown great alertness to the main political problems of the day, and a growing readiness to act upon these problems, in which they faithfully reflect the rising political consciousness of the masses whom they lead. The CIO has become, not only a great force in economic life but also simultaneously in politics. It expresses in all fields a process which may be described as the birth of the American working class as an independent and conscious force...
"Labor generally, includes us Communists, who approach this question with our own standards, have every reason to proceed to the particular task and problems facing us, with great confidence in the strategical line of the CIO leadership...
"The strategy of the CIO has proved itself to be basically sound and correct. We find that it coincides with what we independently estimated as correct strategy...
"The whole line of the Communist Party has been, must remain, and must become universal - one of confidence and whole-hearted collaboration in the work with the responsible leading elements and with the rank and file activists who make up the core of this great historical movement of the CIO..."
Post your favorite historical person
>>1170883
L E N I N
>>1170883
That is some amazing hair
Who is this odd fellow and why do people keep posting him on various boards?
>>1169370
a spook
>>1169370
he is basically an anarchist with an over inflated ego who is basically only known because he wrote an obscure book and that Frederick Engels drew a picture of him in an unflattering way (OP pic)
>>1169370
Mr Spook.
>tfw 22 and scared of dying
Why shouldn't I be afraid to die? What if there is nothing there for me?
No use being afraid of something that's inescapable.
>>1183114
Because it's not going to bother you much when you're dead. Unless you're religous I suppose.
Just remember that there are billions of humans (and animals) that have already died, and that your death will thus be nothing special.
I dunno why but I always found that very comforting - yeah I'll die but at least I'm not the only one, as morbid as that sounds. My grandparents faced it. So did their grandparents, and their grandparents, and theirs, and so on. And I'll have to face it too, just like they all did.
What would happen if Germany have focus all his forces in British Empire(Britain, North Africa, Middle Eastern) the way it did with URSS instead?
Failed invasion of Britain followed by getting completely steamrolled by the Soviets. War ends three years sooner.
Consider our humble screwdriver. Can we possible think of all uses of the screwdriver: no we cannot. How can we possibly prestate all possible uses of the screwdriver in all possible environment? I think you get my point.
Any question of "what if" preassumes that we can possibly predict the causuality of any minor changes: this we cannot.
This rebellion against "what if" speculations is an initial hint of a new emerging worldview.
>>1181943
And if had not invaded Britain, but conquered North Africa and Middle East Britain domains?
So you guys like to make fun of HRE, but was Byzantine Empire any better? Did they acchieve anything worthy of notice, besides not paying debts?
>>1180867
of notice to who
>>1180867
>besides not paying debts?
I want Enrico Schlomonito to take his fallacies and leave.
>>1180867
Depends a lot on when you consider them to start being Byzantines.