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What does /his/ think about the Aristotelian concept of happiness? is it attainable?
Conversely, is happiness attainable at all(which ever way you define it)?
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>Conversely, is happiness attainable at all(which ever way you define it)?
Yes, of course. It doesn't always last, but happiness is easily within the grasp of the average man. The tragedy is that so few people take the time to really consider what would make them happy, and so spend lives of quite desperation just waiting for "happiness" to find them, instead of going out there and making it happen.
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>>1087149
So happiness is something you "gain" from doing certain actions that you find pleasurable then?
What if you can't get it, or fail? Is your life meaningless then?
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>>1087162
Why do you presume that life is worthless without happiness?
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how did the Japanese react to the first "Black Ships" (a generic term for any Western navy vessel)?
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They weren't very impressed. They LOVED muskets, tho.
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>>1087155
what did they think of the people that brought them muskets?
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>>1087175
smelly dumb savages
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So I seen a shit ton of posts and threads shitting on the greeks, and my question is why? What has made them such a spit can on /his/.. Any reason at all?
Second question! Why is the Holy Roman Empire memeified on this damn part of this acursed webpage. I mean they were pretty stronk were they not? Charlemagne, Barbarossa etc etc.
Give me answers /his/! These questions cant go unanswered!
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> So I seen a shit ton of posts and threads shitting on the greeks, and my question is why?
1. Because most of our sources for ancient history is written by Greeks and they are mostly about how Greeks are awesome and cool and how everybody else isn't. That's pretty annoying.
2. Western historiography tends to overemphasize supposed similarities between ancient Athens and modern western world for political reasons. I mean, they ostensibly too had liberties, democracy, freedom of speech, technical advancements, naval superpower, etc. It doesn't help that Athenians basically invented freedom-loving West vs despotic East dichotomy and "Democracy" meme for PR reasons, while running a slave-driven economy.
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Did any American government ever tried to ignore the Supreme Court's ruling? How did it end?
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Lmao yeah of course. Checks and balances are based on power struggles, and the Judicial Branch is inevitably gonna get fucked over at some point in history
The Trail of Tears was the result of Andrew Jackson blatantly ignoring a Supreme Court ruling. He actually told John Marshall to find an army to enforce his ruling if he wanted it obeyed that badly. Then he killed a bunch of indigenous by marching them from Georgia to Oklahoma.
It ended okay for Jackson, considering he got to be on the 20. It ended less well for all the people who got ethnically cleansed
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Andrew Jackson.
FDR also attempted to pack the Supreme Court with six more sycophant judges because some of his New Deal proposals weren't passing.
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/new-deal/essays/fdr%E2%80%99s-court-packing-plan-study-irony
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Jej
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When and how did the Byzantine army transformed from the legion-based late Roman army into one consisting of soldier-farmers and a small cream of professionals?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_(Byzantine_district)#First_themes:_640s.E2.80.93770s
Basically the deal was to form joint military-administrative units in which soldier-peasants will be tied to land so they can defend it anytime it's needed
Needless to say it worked pretty well in halting Arab invasions across Anatolia
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Before the theme, the legion had already collapsed and was steadily replaced with local mercenaries and private guards. The reason was much the same as in the West - the collapse of the annona tribute fleet that supported the standing legionary army, only this time in the East it was Justinian's campaigns and subsequent plague that crippled Roman shipping and taxation for generations, leading to the Sassanid debacle and ultimately the Arab conquest.
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post rare /his/ spurdos, OC is appreciated!
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Who's that supposed to be?
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>>1086675
Jaan Valsiner
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What are some historical battles who had a huge impact on History, that are impressive by their symbolic power or just what happened afterwards ?
I'd say the battle of Castillon is pretty powerful : The french army was a modern army, using a conscription system (The franc-archers), a permanent army (The compagnie d'ordonnance) and artillery to crush a medieval army. Basically, France ceased to be a feudal regime, from now on, it was the King who was the ultimate power of France, and he based that power on his military that only he could afford, not any duke or count. The battle finished the Hundred Years War, with France taking back Aquitaine forever, making sure that England would never again be able to exist in continental Europe.
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The battle of tours. Prevented Europe from becoming Muslim and set up the Carolingion dynasty.
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Battle of Solferino.
Most important Victory over the Habsburgs, eventually leading to Italian statehood.
Those locals who aided the wounded were horrified by the carnage.
This would lead directly to the creation of the Red Cross.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifteen_Decisive_Battles_of_the_World
Written in 1851 though.
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Exaggerated
Is Pilate's reluctance to punish Jesus in the Gospels a way of deflecting blame away from the Roman government and onto the Joos?
The Romans only used crucifixion for slaves and for crimes against the Roman state. If Jesus was crucified, it was because the Romans perceived him as an enemy of the state. The Sanhedrin would have had nothing to do with it, and no Jewish religious squabble would have had anything to do with it. All four Gospels explicitly state that the official reason for the crucifixion was that Jesus had claimed to be the King of the Jews (or at least that other people were claiming he was the King of the Jews). That was the placard allegedly placed on the cross, so if that's accurate then that was the crime.
It is also likely that the Temple incident played into it. Causing any kind of trouble at the Temple during Passover would get somebody killed immediately. During the Passover week, the Romans were greatly outnumbered by Jews coming in from the villages and they were paranoid about riots. Josephus describes multiple violent incidents that happened in the Temple courtyard, including riots and mass slaughters. So an assault on the Temple or a threat to destroy the Temple or a prophecy against the Temple could easily get somebody killed.
It seems that the trial before the Sanhedrin is a Markan fiction invented as a way to try to take blame for the crucifixion away from the Romans and put it on the Jews. The trial and the reluctance of Pilate are both highly implausible for a variety of reasons, and Jesus did not preach anything counter to Jewish law anyway.
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>Jesus was gud jew he dindu nuffin
The Jews of ancient Rome were a bunch of inbred peasants with profound anger issues. PP just gave them what they were asking for, to appease the angry mob.
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>>1086602
>PP just gave them what they were asking for
Who is 'them'? the Sanhedrin?
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>>1086595
No, his wife had a vivid dream the night before and told him to have nothing to do with this Jesus of Nazareth person.
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Re-enactment stuff and where to buy it.
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This is more of a re-enactment thread, but where do YOU buy your stuff?
Because, i would like to know which vendors to trust. I mean, isn't it pretty much with WW2 stuff that it's produced a lot, but in very varying qualities.
But more specifically, where do you buy your WW1 stuff? Also discussion is welcomed on other periods too. So tell me your recommendations.(also on sources of quality fabrics)
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I only do civilian re-enactments, but I buy from other re-enactors and historical costume enthusiasts since it's hard to find companies who care about historical accuracy enough not to cut corners.
Many states have at least one historical re-enactor convention or festival once a year, where you can find vendors selling or advertising themselves. I would recommend checking one out!
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Is there like a /His/ con somewhere? Where people dress as historical persons and get together at a convention? Would be cool to see. Would be cool to see Genghis Khan talking to an Aztec priest..
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I tried a thread like this before, but it was a complete failure.
Are there any books/guides for the making of recreations?
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>"Alexander was Macedonian, not greek"
When will this meme end?
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>>1086361
It's not a meme if it's technically true.
I bet you consider Russell Crowe an Australian.
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Greeks started that meme
you can't blame us for using something THEY started
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>"Hannibal was white"
When will this meme end?
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How important is the impact of childhood on different historically relevant people?
Do parents, upbringings, kindergarten friends, school bullying, the relation of kids with their junior year teachers, this kind of childhood thing, do you think it has any relevant impact on the behaviour, decisions and overall character of historical people?
How was Napoleon's childhood? How was Hitler's? How was Jesus', or Martin Luther's?
I think that we can learn and understand a lot more about history by answering these questions, and that childhoods can definetely affect the adult life of historically important people, and that we don't give as much attention to these issues as we should.
Not only childhood, but teen age days as well.
What do you think of the subject? Do you know of the childhood of anyone important in history?
Tell me about it /his/.
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The only historical figure childhood I know about is Marie Antoinette's, which led her to have a love and yearning for the relatively casual Hapsburg upbringing and family/relatively private life that led her to try to recreate it at Versailles, which pissed off the French courtiers in some respects (how dare you only want to hang out with people who genuinely like instead of people we appoint because of their lineage) and pissed off the French people in others (how dare you want any privacy).
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>Hapsburg
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>>1086366
sorry, I always get my p's and b's mixed up on May the 4th.
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How useful was the Great Wall of China?
If so, how long was it useful for?
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It's pretty useful right now for tourism I'd say
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Well I mean in its original purpose.
How brainwashed is the average American?
Between the political misinformation campaigns, mass media distortions, ideological oversimplifications, scientifically engineered advertisements, narrow school curricula, religious mystification, and lack of historical awareness and appreciation of other cultures and perspectives, you could venture that the average american's grasp on sociopolitical reality is tenuous at best and that this state of affairs is deliberately intended by the powers that be.
Only in America do you have huge swathes of the population unable to grasp the true roots of the economic and political forces that have seen a steady decline in the prospects of middle class in the past decades and massive shift in wealth from the majority of the population to the very few.
Is the inability of Americans at large to critically analyze the situation of the country a byproduct of the corporate state's social engineering, or are Americans simply in denial about the state of their country?
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"and humanities" was a mistake
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>>1086240
>Only in America do you have huge swathes of the population unable to grasp the true roots of the economic and political forces that have seen a steady decline in the prospects of middle class in the past decades and massive shift in wealth from the majority of the population to the very few.
Yeah man, I'm sure if you go to like, Greece or Russia, everyone will totally understand economics and realpolitik.
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>>1086240
>Only in America
Are you delusional? The average person all over the world is stupid and uninformed. Its just that Americans are on TV more often.
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Why did the middle east (Egypt, Mesopotamia) develop advanced civilization before anyone else?
what made this place so special?
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>>1086206
Fertile land and rivers.
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>>1086214
Plus great weather for primitive living
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>>1086206
Natural boundaries that protect against invasion, good land for agriculture, and the ability to trade with other groups up/down the rivers without being settled so close they'd encroach on each other's land.
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>Western Roman "Empire"
>Eastern "Roman" Empire
>"Holy" "Roman" "Empire"
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>>1086185
"""""Roman""""""""" """"""""""Empire""""""""
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>>1086185
>Orthodox Christian
>Greek speaking
>Monarchy
The Eastern """"""Roman"""""" Empire
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>Empire
>Roman
>Holy
literally WHAT THE FUCK