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Will warfare ever be this stylish again?
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>>1152789
You mean flamboyant.
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>>1152795
No difference
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>>1152789
Where is the bottom middle pic from?
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Hey /His/ just signed up for an archeology course at university. What am I in for?
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>going to college
You already fucked up
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>>1152764
this
>2016
>falling for the education meme
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Like what are the lectures interesting? Or how are the laboratories?
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Was there a culture in history that was accepting of the bride not being a virgin? Obviously I don't mean widows of divorced women, but a first time bride having had open sexual relationships with other men before her husband, and the community being a-ok with it.
Also this is a legit history thread, not an /r9k/-related thing at all, so don't you dare delete this, mod. And if you don't listen - well, to hell with you!
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Yeah, virginity wasn't a concern in a lot of non-western societies. Egyptian culture never placed any value on female sexual purity, and the same is generally true of most Polynesian and North American peoples.
In Japan, sexual modesty was important but defined through behavior rather than sexual history. Being a rape victim was less dirty than being sexually forward with one's own husband.
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>>1152639
Non-europeans are cucks
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>>1152639
So you're telling me Native American women could openly have sexual relationships and then marry someone else with the whole tribe knowing about it?
What is the most important 50-year gap in human history?
I'd say 1913-1963
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>>1152516
Gotta be 1919 to 1969
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>>1152516
1941-1991
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>>1152519
what about world war one?
I guess you fit the treaty of versailles in there
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Is there any known connection between the cossacks and the vikings?
The vikings were known for their exceptional ships, which were quite fast and good at navigating inland seas and rivers. The Kievan Rus was formed by vikings, and we know that a substantial part of their economy was derived from trade along the rivers near the Black Sea.
The Kievan Rus lasted until the Mongol invasion in the 1240s, and there are few records of Slavic people in the region between the Dniester and the Volga for a number of reasons.
By the 15th century, less than 200 years later, there is a documented society of orthodox slavs living in this region, whose livelihood is derived from fishing, trading, and of course raiding the local Muslims. The clincher for me are their boats, the Chaikas. Long, shallow vessels powered by oars and sail, and exceptionally fast along the rivers and coast of the Black Sea.
So /his/, is there any documented connection between the vikings of the Kievan Rus and the cossacks, or am I simply a victim of wishful thinking?
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If anything, they were more simillar to mongols and tatars
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>>1152474
The Cossacks were a response by local slavs to the threats posed to them by steppenegroes.
They're basically Slavs larping as Turkics to fight Turkics. You can see it in their equipment and dress. The topknot being the most glaring. Not to mention their free-floating lifestyle to enable them to travel in bands and fight the enemies of Christendom wherever they raid.
The fucking name is from a Turkic word meaning "Freeman" to begin with.
So in short: no.
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>>1152484
Naturally they would have been heavily influenced by Tatar and Mongol tactics, as these groups had occupied the region for over a hundred years. Culturally and ethnically they were predominantly slavic, no doubt about that.
I am wondering if there is any recorded connection at all between nordic/ viking society and the cossacks, even in such little details as their ship design.
The fact that the cossacks practiced democracy is also quite interesting. It is known that the nordic societies were among the first practitioners of democracy, and although the Kievan Rus was far from democratic, I still wonder if there might have been a connection.
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is empiricism supported empirically? seems like a logical reach.
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What does that even mean?
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>>1152378
BRO
YOU'RE SMART AS FUCK
SHIT
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>>1152382
empiricism means you only believe in things you can observe in the natural world.
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Are there any books about the artistic decline of culture?
Whenever you complain about culture being terrible today compared to the past, people call you a grandpa and say things like, "Yesterday's pop shit are today's classics," or "Today's great artists have yet to be discovered," or they say that youtube videos and internet memes are today's most important forms of expressions and I just don't "get it" or whatever.
Are they right? They don't seem right.
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Fags from any era always say that everyone is not as cultured and is shittier than a past era.
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>>1152171
this. Get in line OP.
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Yeah, don't listen to the cucks above
I don't remember the titles but I'll come back when I do
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What do Chinese people think of the cultural revolution?
How much does the opinion and perspective differ between mainland Chinese and other Chinese?
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>>1151734
I don't think mainland Chinese know much about it, I know Tiennamen square is heavily censored in China so I imagine the cultural revolution is similar.
Taiwanese and Hong Kucks like to cry about everything the PRC ever did.
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I dont think they are allowed to think badly about it.
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>>1151734
Trust me, basically everyone in mainland china knows about the cultural revolution; its only taboo to prattle on about it in public
From what I've seen, almost every educated Chinese person knows it was Mao's own little colossal fuck-up
>inb4 美帝走狗/汉奸 etc etc
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Could science be done without numbers?
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No-one knows number.
Take Putin for example, he doesn't even know 2. LOL... Seriously. People think that there won't be a Russia versus China war, immediately after.
1. West versus Middle & Far East plus some EU defects.
2. China, Middle-East versus Russia.
You can't think above 1 m8
>M0nK3Y knows 2 - infinity.
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>>1151229
wew lad
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>>1151241
I'm sorry, I made a mistake.
1.9r is China versus Russia.
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So who really was the founder of Roman Empire ? Caesar or Augustus ?
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>>1150919
Jesus
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>>1150923
J-E-S-U-S... that's not how people generally spell Caesar :^T
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>>1150933
Is Yeshua better?
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Educate me about the Republic of Novgorod.
Was it really democratic?
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>>1150904
>Was it really democratic?
Yes.
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Not democratic in the modern sense, but way more than medieval monarchies.
Also it was unreally literate for its time, the estimate is around 70 to 80%, including peasants. A rate like that was unheard of outside of monasteries during the middle ages.
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>>1150909
interesting if true
shame it didn't survive as a political entity
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What the fuck was their problem?
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>>1150538
Non-serbs
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Kebab
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Being untermenschen.
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How do you fix a gf who thinks Hegel and Kierkegaard are "boss" but thinks Camus and Sartre are "hacks"? I pointed out to here that Kierkegaard hated Hegel but she just said "yeah, taking them as a whole they're completely incompatible, but taken as teachers I still learn new things from both each time I read them."
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>>1150193
you get a GF that doesn't do humanities so at least one person in your household can actually provide for the family
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>>1150193
What's it like having a gf?
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You have a gf reading Kierkegaard and Hegel? I don't fucking believe you .
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Lost or Mythical Cities Thread
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What are some lost/mythic cities that are "not common", for a lack of better words (that is, nothing like Shambhala or Atlantis)
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>>1148878
I'ts literally the first time I hear of Shambhala t.b.h.
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Detroit
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Mu
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Why is it so hard to find stuff about tachi (and how they were used) other than
>it's just/mainly the different mounting
>it's used by cavalry
which I'm not sure are even true. I can't seem to find anything involving sparring either. Are the differences so small that everybody just uses a katana since it's more convenient? Is there even a stream of kenjutsu that recognises these two as different weapons?
Personally, I find the earlier swords more beautiful compared to modern ones which (at least to me) seem fatter, shorter and less curved.
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>>1141625
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19lJerM4bj4&t=11m41s
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>>1141625
Many of the older schools will use the term "tachi" in their kenjutsu. Aside from being a little longer their use on foot is practically the same. I dont know of anyone who has preserved tachi from horseback, or who practices it.
You find much sparring because many surviving koryu do not spar, especially among the arts that date back to the sengoku period. Most styles with an active sparring component were founded during the mid to late edo era, and focus on kenjutsu for dueling.
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What's the difference between tachi and katana?