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What did people do for entertainment back in the day? Was it just minstrel shows, carnivals, and drinking?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_burning
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>>1084755
>According to Steven Pinker the assembled people "shrieked with laughter as the animals, howling with pain, were singed, roasted, and finally carbonized."
I guess you could say that's pretty...
Ass.
(Seriously, that's incredibly fucked up. The French are fucking subhuman.)
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>>1084787
bruh this is fucked up desu
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How did the Ten Thousand even manage their journey? I'm no greekaboo but it seems like something out of a movie.
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>>1084742
Persians could not counter Greek infantry.
All of 3? victories before this point. The 10,000 wrecked Persian shit all the way home.
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>>1084742
Not much reason for the Persians to fight them. They weren't an invading, conquering force; they were just trying to get home.
Granted, shit happened. Betrayals, assassinations, raids... But that's more or less par for the course of ancient history. 10,000 is actually a lot of people. 10,000 heavily armed, experienced, skilled soldiers moving through the countryside isn't anything to sneeze at.
I think once the Persians realized they weren't much of a threat anymore, they didn't persist. It's not worth sending tens of thousands of your own men to fight and possibly die just to kill people who aren't giving you much trouble anyway.
Then all they had to contend with were some militarily unsophisticated tribal peoples.
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How did knights / crusaders/ other medieval warriors carry their gear with them? Did they have backpacks? Did they leave their stuff at camp while they fought?
Or just general historical bags / packs thread
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>>1084638
servants
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>>1084638
>Medieval Euros
Baggage train
>Medieval Islam
Baggage train
>Steppe Nomads
With the clan yurt, senpai.
>Imperial Chinese
Supply Corps & Depot.
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>>1084638
They were called squires
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How would you fix this /his/?
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more colonialism
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>>1084409
Real life already did.
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>>1084409
Pretty shitty map. I'd use a symbolic projection to give emphasis to areas of importance.
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Ask an ubermensch anything
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>>1084372
You are nothing but a spook
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why do you still live in your mom's basement
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>>1084372
>an
"The" ubermensch has been dead for years.
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Explain to this hungry West German child why it's better to be dead than Red
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Because the Soviets were the ones starving them out.
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>>1084287
Because when you're red the hunger lasts for decades.
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>>1084291
The initial US policy toward Germany was complete industrial dismemberment
What do you all think of the logical concept of possible worlds?
Is it an ideal measurement of necessity, or do you think there is a better system?
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>>1084219
Modal realism made anime real.
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>>1084219
>possible worlds
elaborate please
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>>1084224
http://www.philpapers.org/archive/sinPG/
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I'm somewhat shit with my 20th Century History because the lack of swords n shit made me not care for it when I was younger so..
...how was the economy of the Soviet Union? Was it North Korea Isolated-Tier or was it trading within communist countries only? Or was it more like Modern China: a communist government trading with everyone?
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http://msxnet.org/orwell/print/animal_farm.pdf
read this
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>>1084041
>Fiction
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>>1084044
If you're too slow for allegory, I won't hold it against you. Wikipedia is probably more your speed anyway.
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>Criticizes the Holy Roman Empire
>Constantly cucks to Voltaire
>Examines the Empire centuries after its formation
>Doesnt realize the title of Holy Roman Emperor was given to based Charlemange after he kicked the muslims out of France and saved Europe from Islam, something pretty holy and deserving of a Roman Emperor
Of course it'd turn to shit much later on, but still better than the Byzantines
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>>1083894
His grandfather was much more based, Charles Martel the kebab remover.
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>>1083928
Charles was based but not as based as Charles the Based.
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>>1083894
>Doesnt realize the title of Holy Roman Emperor was given to based Charlemange after he kicked the muslims out of France and saved Europe from Islam, something pretty holy and deserving of a Roman Emperor
Except it wasn't. The pope gave Charlemagne the title of "Roman Emperor" cause he was scared shitless and wanted to get in good with Charlie. "Holy" was only added in 1157 by Frederick Barbarossa to fuck with the Pope.
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Please no "WE WUZ" shitposting, but is this painting for real?
Did Prussia allow colonials/sub-saharians on their ranks? Even in such racism-filled societies was race-mixing acceptable?
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https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Sabac_el_Cher
Learn to google.
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>>1083944
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Realhistoryww
I know you guys are gonna say
>rationalwiki
but no one takes Realhistoryww seriously
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>>1083886
The contrast in skin colors compliments well and looks beautiful. Aesthetically it makes me think of chocolate w/ whip cream.
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What you thing it would happen if Stauffenberg had succeded in kill Hitler?
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Hitler would have died
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>>1083877
So smart, anon
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Hitler would not be alive
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Historical Warfare Book suggestions
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Hey /his/; I would like to know exactly of some credible and thoughtful reads on the successes and failures of Hitler and Stalin. Though WW2 is my main focus I would like if someone could point me to a book over Napoleon and Alexander the Great's military histories as well.
>pic somewhat related.
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Read a few essays by Glantz. It's the most accurate Soviet portrayal of the war you can get in the west if you don't read snowrunes.
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>>1083867
Overy, Russia's War
companion documentary: Russia's War: blood on the snow
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I need reference for the daily lives of ancient clans and tribes.
Googling the names of such countries mostly gets me their politics and/or military facts/encounters. What I need is more about how they lived.
how they got sustenance
what arts and musics they preferred
when they hunted, what they hunted, and how
land laws
rights of battle
all that kind of stuff
Knowledge of ancient crafting methods for armaments and arts are equally important to me as knowledge of how they caught fish or built huts, if not slightly lesser.
Time-range: anywhere from the 1st to 6th centuries.
Areas: Anywhere east of Pakistan, north of Cameroon, south of the north pole, and west of the North Atlantic Ocean.
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do your own homework.
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>>1083731
Which tribes? where? you need to be more specific, also I think you got your east and west mixed up
This is the most retardedly vague question ever
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>>1084306
I blame his teacher
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Is this worth reading?
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>>1083726
>biography
>Pulitzer
Probably not.
Have you considered reading a social history of the early post-war instead?
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What is the general opinion of /his/ on McCullough's biographies?
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>>1083726
I am constantly seeing David McCullough books pop up when broswing for history reading. Is this guy some top historian with tons of best selling books?
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Did the Mongols make any significant/measurable impact in the genetics of Eastern Europeans?
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I'm half Ukrainian and I was born with a mongolian blue birthmark. You don't necessarily have to be mongolian to get it, but you definitely have to be part non white.
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>>1083690
Yes, Eastern Europeans are Mongolian rape babies.
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>>1083713
The fuck is that?