Was there ever a way for Native Americans to prevent European colonization?
>no guns
>no metal tools / weapons
>no large scale organized military (except maybe the Incas?)
>hugely susceptible to European diseases
I've tried to think of ways that the NAs could have stopped the Europeans but just can't think of one
Maybe they could have fought off some of the initial settlers but if the Europeans started coming in greater numbers with greater weapons NAs wouldn't stand much of a chance, and once disease takes over they are done
>>1037382
>Be mayan/Aztec
>Spaniards arrive
>Decide not to freak out as they insult your culture.
>Welcome them with open arms
>Show willingness to trade and consider allowing missionaries.
>Trade tonnes of gold for knowledge of metalworking, guns, other important shit.
>If Spain gets uppity invite Portugal and maybe France
>play them against each other so they can't just attack you
>Develop and sheeit.
The Mesoamericans were only conquered because Cortez freaked out. It was avoidable. In Africa, India, Japan, China trade was set up without conquering the natives so the same is possible in America. Until the 19th century at least but if the Natives played their cards right they would be better equipped to hold them off at that stage.
>>1037407
>welcome the Spanish
>contract various diseases
>Spanish decide that they would rather take your shit than trade with human sacrificing savages
>everyone who survived the new diseases is either killed outright or otherwise subjugated
>your wife is now choking on Spanish dick 24/7
>>1037407
>Welcome them with open arms
Isn't that what Montezuma did and the Spaniards ended up systematically killing most of the Aztec commanders while they were unarmed during a festival?
What are the most epic naval battles in history?
>>1064322
Salamis
>>1064322
Any naval battle in the 17th and 18th centuries was epic as it gets. Earlier sea vessels were comparatively small time, and later ones were so gigantic that they were used for support, intimidation and strategic bombardment, so ship-on-ship combat was somewhat more rare and less exciting.
>>1064322
The Spanish Armada.
Queen Elizabeth I of England had increasingly become a figurehead for the Protestant struggle in France and the Netherlands, where the Dutch were in revolt against Spanish rule. Her subjects had enraged the Spanish King by raiding his American possessions and even the coastline of Spain itself: Drake sacked Cadiz in 1587 and the Earl of Leicester was leading an English contingent assisting the Dutch revolt in the Netherlands.
The Pope excommunicated Elizabeth and issued an encyclical absolving Catholics from their allegiance to the English Crown, encouraging a series of plots to murder the Queen, who in turn beheaded the Catholic Mary Queen of Scots in 1587, the focus of the plots. Mary’s execution was the final spur for the Spanish invasion of England.
For the Spanish the Armada was a religious crusade marked by a number of crusader emblems.180 priests and monks accompanied the fleet and the crews were enjoined to strict religious observance and conduct.
Central to the Armada was the mass of merchant vessels, known as hulks or urcas, converted for war by the addition of higher fore and after castles and a greater complement of guns and carrying the Spanish army with its artillery and baggage. Many of these ships came from the towns of the Hanseatic League in the Baltic. Flagship of the “hulk squadron" was the Gran Grifon from Rostock.
So why didn't the vikings stick around in North America?
Because Injuns fucked their shit up.
>>1060562
I don't think that the Norse settlements that were found up in Newfoundland were permanent to begin with. More like temporary stops or warehouses than residences, if I remember correctly. Anyways, a combination of fighting with the skrælings, if the sagas are to be believed, and environmental pressures probably kept the small number of Norsemen who were sailing around the area from pitching their tents for the long haul.
>>1060562
Too far away and dangerous to set up trade.
Too cold and hostile maintain their lifestyle
What /his/'s opinion on Austria-Hungary? What can you tell me about it?
>>1060052
Neglected military and not a nation-state.
That's all I know, I really like the Hapsburgs but idk much in this period of their history except for WWI.
>>1060062
>/his/ opinion
When the board started there were numerous threads on the subject and people were kind of fucking maymaying it like it was 10/10 GOAT-tier. We then agreed it was fucking shit. There some /A-U/tists still lurking tho
>what can you tell me about it
Read A.J.P. Taylor's book on it, it's the best work I know on the subject
>>1060075
>We agreed it was fucking shit
Why? Why was it shit? Looked like it had pretty big lands to me.
> The Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, killed in early May 2002, two weeks before he was expected to gain one-fifth of the vote, was a paradoxical figure: a right-wing populist whose personal attributes and opinions (for the most part) were almost perfectly “politically correct”: He was gay, had good personal relations with many immigrants and possessed an innate sense of irony, etc.—in short, he was a good, tolerant liberal with regard to everything except his basic political stance. He opposed fundamentalist immigrants because of their lack of tolerance toward homosexuality, women’s rights, religious differences, etc. What he embodied was thus the intersection between rightist populism and liberal political correctness. Perhaps he had to die because he was living proof that the dichotomy between right-wing populism and liberal tolerance is a false one—that we are dealing with two sides of the same coin.
>Perhaps he had to die
Feelosofee at eets pyoorest.
http://inthesetimes.com/article/19037/slavoj-zizek-democracys-fascism-problem
Fuck Milo Yiannopolis.
He's probably the most dangerous personality around right now.
Trying to normalize the Neo-Nazis and fascists on the Alt-Right detracts from both the true nature of the Alt-Right (i.e. it doesn't care about tolerance and people like Milo are only tolerated because "muh Jews, we need a gay man to say these things," not because anyone on the Alt-Right thinks he's cool). He's a piece of shit.
Perhaps he has to get AIDS.
>>1069844
Still doesn't convince me that Zizek isn't just a liberal trying to annoy other liberals.
>>1069865
Dude is a closeted tranny train wreck. He's gonna transition or kill himself soon
I just made this. Pls rate.
PS Poland sucks.
>>1066076
0/10 needs more diversity
8/10
Saved for later.
Why is this board so shit?
What did he mean by this?
He was a National Socialist. Combining Nationalism and Socialism together for the well being of the people who are part of the nations identity.Thus helping the people helps the nation. Not like today's socialism which is International Socialism.
>>1065482
The anti-capitalist rhetoric was just that - rhetoric. After the nazis came into power, they implemented a corporatist state. Not very many socialists would consider that to be a form of socialism.
>>1065502
He had to. Those companies were making his bombs and guns. Unlike International Socialism (Marxism) National Socialism was OK with free enterprise, so long as it benefited the people and worked for the state. "Corporatism", as defined by Mussolini, is exact that: the state overseeing free enterprise so it benefits the state, and not just for itself. National Socialists disliked capitalism because it was only interested in lining its own coffers, and could care less about society's needs. There for, it had to be coerced or controlled. International Socialists believed it was the source of all the worlds problems and had to be destroyed, along with the culture and civilization that spawned it.
By that light, National Socialism does seem far more rational.
this too wasn't enough
>>1065354
Was enough for the Eternal Anglo.
>>1065392
If it wasn't for that Eternal Anglo that literally saved them a century before.
Where the fuck do I start reading if I want to learn about ancient Canaan?
The internet seems to have few resources.
>>1065113
what do you mean by Ancient Canaan? Like pre-biblical? Before Judea popped up in there?
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1355285
>>1065118
>Before Judea popped up in there?
Yeah. Particularly interested in culture, mythos and religion.
Why can't we simply use the harshest punishment possible for every crime to eliminate criminality?
There would be absolutely no criminality if EVERYTHING would be punishable by death. (stealing, violence, littering, being a dick etc)
It would be so normal for people to avoid those negative things that it would become automatic.
>>1064726
because the administration of justice is a human system and is therefore prone to human error.
the second you kill a kid for shoplifting and it then turns out he didn't do it, you'd have riots.
besides, justice has to be proportional to the nature of the crime. some crimes are worse than others.
The concepts of fairness, justice, and mercy are more important to most people than a land with absolutely 0 criminality and the road along which you propose leads to tyranny and people don't like that either.
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>>1064696
Rome Rises
Had deposits of aluminum metal existed and were widely available, how would they have impacted human history?
Would cast aluminum have been a viable competitor for bronze/iron in the ancient world for weapons and armor?
>>1064588
>Australia stronk
>>1064598
Bauxite isn't exploitable by premodern people though.
>>1064588
Aluminum is too weak, even cast aluminum, to make weapons or tools with.
I mean you could, but after a few uses they'd be worthless and unable to be used.
Why are Jews both a religion and a race?
>>1064422
Jews are not a race, but an ethnicity.
A Jew is an individual of the Jewish ethnicity.
A Judaic is an individual whose religion is Judaism.
>>1064426
/thread
>>1064426
>race
Considering that race isn't a biological factor but socially constructed Jews can very well be called a "race"
Also there's no distinction between culture/ethnicity and religion in Judaism, it's one and the same, even a Jew who doesn't believe in God but practises the culture is religious
Kind of neat that the Reconquista finished almost at the same time as the discovery of the New World.
What would the Americas be like if Iberia stayed Islamic? Would Central & South America be full of Muslims or would England/France get there first?
Muslim Spain had rich cities but low population growth
The Muslims in Spain relied heavily on their North African brothers to help them - but the rapacious Berber ended up taking over Muslim Spain did their part in bringing down that splendid civilization. It wasn't all the "fault" of the Christian conquerors.
>>1064387
I find it interesting that while Muslims were getting BTFO in a culturally important but distant region in the west, Christians were getting BTFO in a culturally important but distant region in the east. I'm sure Muslims see the Alhambra in the same way Christians see Hagia Sophia.
>>1064387
The Italian factor should not be underestimated. They were the prime movers of the Atlantic exploration business - they brought in the capital and the expertise, both commercial and technical
>call yourself the "wholly Roman Empire"
>not one Emperor is even from Rome
>most of the Empire is located outside of Italy
???
>call yourself the "Roman Empire"
>not one emperor is even from rome
>all of the empire is localted outside of Italy
>>1064279
>>1064276
>Call yourself Roman Emperor
>Descended from Spaniards
>Capital isn't even Rome.
>>1064290
>Call yourself Roman Emperor
>Born in Illyria
>Barely even lived in Rome.