Today 498 years ago began one of the most epic journeys of the humanity in the age of exploration, the first circumnavigation around the world. From a fleet of 5 ships and 270 men, after 4 years of sailing against the elements, only one ship and 18 men returned completing the feat.
>>3224088
Sounds boring desu. Tell me more about these guys.
>>3224088
>Mfw my hometown's claim to fame is killing Magellan.
>>3224103
>tfw they came back nevertheless
damn spics should've stayed in the americas where there's gold.
Just how common was the use of field artillery prior to the invention of cannons? In this context, I'm asking about the use of artillery weapons outside of sieges. Films like to portray 'gun lines' of catapults (think the opening battle in gladiator), but it seems like artillery would have been difficult to use unless you were on the defensive or conducting a siege.
Would medieval or ancient armies actually have utilised artillery in open field battles much? I know the Romans had some small artillery pieces they apparently used, but I'm curious if larger catapults/trebuchets were ever used in this manner.
>>3224058
Siege weapons where not used in field battles only very rarely. Battle of Mohac is an example where it was used in a field role.
They're rather difficult to aim as I understand it. Not so much of an issue when you're aiming at a castle or city and you have plenty of time to aim and adjust, but becomes a problem when you're aiming at 5786876667 screaming barbarians who are rapidly getting closer.
That said, an anonymous poem describing the battle of Bosworth claims there were springalds there. Wetherby he meant man sized crossbows or actually siege engines is unclear.
>>3224058
>Hey guys, how did they use artillery before they had artillery
>protip, they din't
being in hiroshima, nagasaki or in the holocauste, goulag ?
Unit 731
>>3223924
probably gulag, since there wasn't anyone coming to liberate you.
>>3223924
hiroshima if you survived
Why didn't romans conquer magna germania?
Did they fear the Aryan warrior?
Nah, just the black one
Fuck you Varus
Gib legions nao
>>3223795
Tiberius was afraid of Germanicus
a representation of the African deity Ast/Isis
is this accurate
>Paris
>Park of Isis
How does anyone take this stuff seriously
>Kangs
>"is this accurate"
I don't think it goes far enough
Why were the fertile plains of North Africa only inhabited by a handful of nomadic herders before Phoenicians colonized the place?
Why were there not complex societies and settled farmer communities there?
>>3223437
Ever heard of northern Berber people ? They were not a handful of nomadic herders. They were not nomadic (the southern ones are but not the northern), they were not a handful and they had rather complex societies.
>>3223449
Such as?
Can't find anything about Pre Phoenician societies
>>3223457
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Libya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsian_culture
The sources are quite hard to find because there are not a lot of researches that are done about these people
What is the essential reading on the Holodomor famines in Ukraine? There doesn't appear to be a large amount of literature printed on the subject, and what is is relatively short-winded - most less than 300 pages.
I'm looking at pic related right now but I'm not sure if I want to buy it. I'm sorry if you talk about this more often than I'm aware, I'm not much of a /his/ lurker but /lit/ gets all up in arms whenever you want to talk about something that isn't the Iliad or how socialism is the future.
>>3223313
Modest bump
I'm not sure, but I can assure you that there are very few primary sources which probably explains the lack of literature.
>>3223313
>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/soviet/rosefielde.pdf
>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/soviet/famine/ellman1933.pdf
>http://www.melgrosh.unimelb.edu.au/documents/Davies_Wheatcroft_ch.4_Famine.pdf
Jews are like those people who refuse to install Windows 10. The bible got updated 2000 years ago yet the cling to the old version.
>>3223173
The New Testament is fake.
>If a king will arise from the House of David who diligently contemplates the Torah and observes its mitzvot as prescribed by the Written Law and the Oral Law as David, his ancestor, will compel all of Israel to walk in (the way of the Torah) and rectify the breaches in its observance, and fight the wars of God, we may, with assurance, consider him Mashiach.
>If he succeeds in the above, builds the Temple in its place, and gathers the dispersed of Israel, he is definitely the Mashiach.
>He will then improve the entire world, motivating all the nations to serve God together, as Tzephaniah 3:9 states: 'I will transform the peoples to a purer language that they all will call upon the name of God and serve Him with one purpose.'
>If he did not succeed to this degree or was killed, he surely is not the redeemer promised by the Torah. Rather, he should be considered as all the other proper and complete kings of the Davidic dynasty who died. God caused him to arise only to test the many, as Daniel 11:35 states: 'And some of the wise men will stumble, to try them, to refine, and to clarify until the appointed time, because the set time is in the future.'
>Jesus of Nazareth who aspired to be the Mashiach and was executed by the court was also alluded to in Daniel's prophecies, as ibid. 11:14 states: 'The vulgar among your people shall exalt themselves in an attempt to fulfill the vision, but they shall stumble.'
>Can there be a greater stumbling block than Christianity? All the prophets spoke of Mashiach as the redeemer of Israel and their savior who would gather their dispersed and strengthen their observance of the mitzvot. In contrast, Christianity caused the Jews to be slain by the sword, their remnants to be scattered and humbled, the Torah to be altered, and the majority of the world to err and serve a god other than the Lord.
>>3223179
It's a light hearted joke, it's not /pol/
Can any well read people confirm or deny this image that was linked to me on a certain other board?
>>3222924
Christians, Jews, Muslims (Baha'i, Rastafarians) all basically worship the same God, the God of Abraham of Ur. Hence the term 'Abrahamic religion'.
Claiming they're all Judaism is just a meme, though.
>>3222924
>ibadi's not represented
Why's everyone gotta be mean to Oman, i mean, they're like Oh, man, man.
>>3222924
wait what the fuck is a mormon and who is their prophet
were ninja enemies of samurai
>>3222657
when they got paid for it, sure
Ninja are a meme, most "ninja" were cooks and retainers spying for rival lords
Will the Japanfaggotry on these boards never end?
Was Charles Lee really that bad? in Assasin's Creed he is depicted as an archnemesis who plots George Washington's murder.
>>3222594
No.
At most he spent the whole revolution shrieking "REEE NOTICE ME! GEORGE WASHINGTON IS A SHIT COMMANDER, LOOK AT HIM!"
WHERE'S CHARLES LEE
>>3222594
He didn't want to murder Washington but he was an asshole and an inept military commander. The Borgias got it the worst in AC.
In 1958 the tiny nation of Andorra declared peace with G*rmany after being accidentally left of the Treaty of Versailles.
Andorra had been legally at war with G*rmany for nearly 44 years!
>>3222484
>Andorra had been legally at war with G*rmany for nearly 44 years!
you are like a little baby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan–Montenegro_relations
>>3222555
Japan fears the mountain black warrior
>>3222555
Heh that is nothing anon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hundred_and_Thirty_Five_Years%27_War
Why does the Italian fear the Spice Jew?
Which alphabet is better latin or ideogram? And why.
Japanese because I like anime.
Really though ideograms have a more diverse vocabulary, although this may be a result of age rather than format.
>>3222298
The latter isn't an alphabet.
Alphabet = Alpha + Beta
>Detroit 1960
>one of the wealthiest cities in america
>lots of low skill industry jobs
>2 million people
>average income of
>average income of black families is 95% of white families's average
so why did melanin rich citizens chimp out?
You sure its not just shitty American cars?
>>3222291
gas got more expensive and big american cars became history.
>>3222291
The lowest-skilled jobs actually started disappearing by the early-60's. Early automation eliminated some of the positions that previously went to the marginally-employable.
With those jobs becoming rarer, the marginally-employable spent time committing crime and being nuisances, which drove out functional people (especially whites, who were often targeted for attack), which led to an unstable situation by '67.
Basically you had a large, lightly-educated population of hillbilly blacks recently arrived from the rural south (or the kids of such) in a northern urban environment, and once economic security fell a bit, it all went to hell.
Anybody finished the new episode yet? It's another 6 hour and has only been up for 8 but I'm starting a marathon listen.
I didn't even know a new one was out
link for anybody interested
http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-60-the-celtic-holocaust
>celts
How disspointing