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Socrates's charlatanism was a shit stain on western philosophy that still hasn't gone away. Plato's complete ineptitude at systemizing his thought is Exhibit Alpha-Omega of this. I would have gladly voted for his execution.

>>1060941
Yes.

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>implying that Descartes didn't have a similarly based "no presumptions" approach

>>1060719
god tier side burns

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Ney was an excellent tactical commander.
He saved what was left of le grande armee during the retreat.
Napoleon relied on Ney to carry out dangerous operations, where his boldness and courage would be most useful.

He doesn't deserve a bad rep just because of waterloo.

My opinion is that he faked his death and lived as a professor in North Carolina.

It's a better story.

italy has no real right except the same geographical area

>H>R>E

ERE is the only rightful successor

>>1060668
I'd argue France

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>>1060668
>the Trojan refugee Aeneas escape to Italy and found the line of Romans through his son Iulus, the namesake of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

>>1060647
The 7th century.

After Justinian
You can't take anyone seriously after they close the schools in Athens

>>1060651
>>1060671
Both of these are correct

>>1060502
Hitler?

Autistaire, destroyer of memes.

>>1060508
"Filthy Polemicist" Voltaire

Moules frites

Existing

Belgium is the most unnecessary country on the continent. All they accomplished is being a good goy for Eternal Anglo and being pain in the ass for both France and Germany.

>>1060186
from what i understand, as long as you submit to roman culture and werent a slave, youre fine

>>1060186
Peregrines were treated the same as citizens, only they had to pay more taxes and had no political rights.
Also in many places they were still subjected to whatever government form ruled them before Rome, which means for example that many less urban areas like Thrace were still effectively ruled by tribal law, only you could appeal against it if you were a roman citizen.

Emperor Trump tried to build a wall to keep Germans in Germany. It bankrupted the Empire.

Badass and shit.

He was a shitty president though.

First populist candidate. Fighting the bank was a mistake. Genociding the Natives might have been a bad and unconstitutional thing to do but hey, it secured the south.

Also, he wouldn't want to be on the 20 anyway.

>>1060129
I always confuse him with jefferson.

>>1060103
I think they would've justified it by saying "they're catholic niggers".

I am legitimately starting to believe the "eternal anglo" meme.

What a race of backstabbing, arrogant, snivelling rats.

Someone is a fan of rape doujins it seems

Because you're a fascist

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>>1060011
They kind of have a certain allure.
Like Samurais but with rifles.

Also they need to get their army back.

>>1059946
When it didnt exist

>>1059946
Early Medieval or right now. Everything between now and then is horrendous.

>>1059959
>Early Medieval

Can you give a general time period? I want to read up on it.

>>1059902

you mean that geography is not a determining factor or...?

>>1059935

The argument = geography is not the be all and end all as an outside, deterministic force. More digestible, maybe more business-oriented variation on the "environmental determinism is a problematic discourse" line in academic Geography circles.

>>1059948

the only problem i see with it is how they used to assign mentality traits to populations depending on climate, which has been debunked and pretty much abandoned, but the relation betveen a culture and the enviroment it reproduces in is kind of a obvious thing

thing is geographic determinism used to be more about local people and explaining away cultural and economic diferences by crap like 'warm climate makes you lazy', than realy about analizing how some specific climate and geography sets conditions for development of say, forms of architecture or complex economy

apparently 'enviromental' determinism is a updated version

>>1059570
Napoleonic France > Prussia (and pretty much everyone else)

Not complicated

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When the King of Prussia declared war against the French, Napoleon already had corps of le grande armee already deployed in Germany.

A week later, the antiquated Prussian army was out maneuvered and out fought by Napoleon at Jena, and Marshal Davout at Auerstadt.

Napoleon vigorously pursued the scattered Prussians for weeks afterward, until the French entered Berlin.

Europe was stunned.

The Prussians were living in the past.
They deployed and fought as if Friederich was still in command.

Napoleon's better trained and more mobile forces took apart the stiff formations of the Prussians.

Complacent army resting on long dead victories versus most aggressive military on earth.

Exactly what you expect.

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>tfw no Prussians

I must unite the Germanic people though

>Victoria 2
>biography of Frederick II
>history of the Franco-Prussian war
>pickelhaube

That should get you going.

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You start with Friedrich and move to Bismarck over Blücher. Now you can choose to be an autistic Prussiaboo or a reasonable one. This depends on wether you like Wilhelm the 2. or not.

You must hate the French and Austrians. And pray to Bismarck with a Pickelhaube on your head every day

>>1059445
Colonized by a Germany that won WWI

>>1059454
That won WWI. The Holy Roman Empire would rise again. All the European peoples would be united under one Reich.

Yes, I know American soldiers didn't do shit in WWI. American materiel did though, and we're talking about killing American industrial output.

>>1059445
Some might have done that, but the resources were too much and too much was expected of them for ALL of the settlers to get along with the natives.

It's kind of like asking what if a river wound around native villages instead of running straight through and spoiling them. It may have helped but the discovery of the new world was like a dam breaking. In the end the huge influx of people, whether more were respectful or not, is bound to displace, inconvenience, and outright kill millions over the years.

the outbreak of european diseases decimated native communities, and no matter how nice and respectful euros were, The existing tribes and communities would still go to war over land claims, and the Europeans would not just allow themselves to be captured, exiled, or conquered.

The only thing I would see preventing the same thing as we see today (albeit slower and less cruel) would be if there were practically no settlers to displace anyone, in which case >>1059454 someone else would do it. The Russians, the Germans, etc.