Can we talk about the history of food and it's role in cultures. Also how traditional cuisine has changed throughout history (ie Spanish food was influenced by the Islamic Empire as well as traditional South and Central American food)
>inb4 not /his/ yes it is. It's the history of food
pic barely related
I'm interested, but have nothing to contribute. So have a bump
OP here with some info to get the conversation going.
When the Umayyad Caliphate reached Spain, they brought their spices and other . This helped lead to Spain's unique cuisine compared to the rest of Europe. When Spanish colonists went to the Americas they brought their food with them, where it was combined with traditional cuisine there. The Spaniard were responsible to introducing the Natives to many kinds of meat.
Another example is Al Pastor meat in Mexico. This is actually something that is not Mexican despite being one of the most popular Mexican foods. Al Pastor was actually originally from Lebanon and it is similar to shwarma.
I don't have a ton of info (hence why I started the thread) but anyone that could provide examples or anything else would be much appreciated.
>>1058089
It is LIKELY from Lebanese immigrants
What if WW2 would of dragged on two more years in japan. What would the casualties look like, would Japan be divided by the two post war Super powers etc.
>>1057606
>would of
Delete this thread you little bitch.
>>1057626
uh oh spaghettio
would've
>>1057606
>hat would the casualties look like,
U.S./Western Allied casualties probably in the 3/4-1 million dead, with about 4 times as many wounded. Japanese casualties would probably run into the tens of millions.
This is assuming a Japanese fight to the death. Given the infrastructure damage already inflicted by the conventional bombing, Japan's railroad and canal system was in tatters, and their own government was predicting mass starvation before the end of 1945. That in all likelihood would prompt at least partial surrenders, which can change the death toll dramatically.
>would Japan be divided by the two post war Super powers.
No. The Soviets don't have a fleet in the Pacific. The only way they'd get a fleet in time is if the U.S. would lend them the boats, and it seems unlikely with the alliance already fraying over issues like China, that Truman would do such a thing, when said craft could be used to reinforce American pushes into Japan.
What was the average, everyday, Southern man in the CSA fighting for during the Civil War? I'm aware that most of them didn't own slaves, I would just like to know their psychology going into the war. Was it just pure patriotism?
>>1057620
very, very bad post, my friend.
Because their country was going to war, simple as that. People had much stronger ties to their states than the federal government back in the day.
>>1057634
;_;
What's the difference between a castle and a fort?
>>1057545
Castles are heavily fortified residences, forts are purely military structures
>>1057545
Fort is largely military and purely military in purpose.
Castle hovers between some lord's plush mansion doubling as a military fortification.
Why do so many people find religion when in prison? I wouldn't have thought criminal types were the sort to get churchy.
it's never too late to find the light, anon
>lowest point in their lives
>facing isolation from everyone they knew
>feel guilty about letting their life get to that point, maybe even about their crimes too
>desperately seek meaning and acceptance
Makes sense to me.
>>1057245
This basically. It is not hard to imagine or understand.
What went wrong?
1 A retarded parliament system where one single noble man could veto the whole thing.
2 Sweden
>>1057199
It involved Poles.
>>1057199
Prussia
>WE WUZ KINGZ 'N SHIET
well in fact they wuz
why is Nubia never talked about? I mean american niggers are propably from countries that didn't have anything more than mud huts but that doesn't mean we can dismiss legit black civilizations.
>>1056975
>american niggers are propably from countries that didn't have anything more than mud huts
They aren't though. Most of them came from around Nigeria.
African Americans are 50% Senegambian and Congolese/Angolan
The rest is Nigerian with about 10% Ghanaian
>>1056989
>Nigeria
>civilization
What was the best classical society?
>>1056961
Weren't the Romans massive Greekboos?
Unity and conquest: Romans
Culture, learning, arts: Greeks
So basically if you're an enlightened individual, Greece is clearly superior.
In what ways do you predict that the world would have developed differently, if Christianity had only remained an obscure Jewish sect that was never tolerated in the Roman Empire?
>>1056850
No European slave morality.
Something else would fill the gap
Most likely Classical myth modified by philosophy to create a sort of "western Hinduism"
Divorce would never have been prohibited.
Did Africans or settlers build it?
>>1056835
Heil Hitler 1488 White Power Nigger Kike Spic Gook Wop Papist
Pretty much all the evidence points to local Shona people building it
Just like how Stonehenge was built by Brits
t. former rhodesian
>>1056835
It's hard to say who built it since it hasn't been studied enough by competent archeologists. Could have been the Jewish ancestors of the Lemba tribe.
People often view past times with reverence and envy those that lived during them. Will those of the distant future view our times in the same respect? Should we learn to embrace our time and place in this world instead of longing to live in another one?
>people will one day envy all the faggots on here
>the next generation will declare they were born in the wrong generation, and wish they were born in the 'era of meme magic'
Yes.
Yes.
kek could you imagine some poor sap born 60+years from now asking older versions of us how it was when the freshest memes were made in the "good ol days, when things made sense"
desu id rather being bombing or tanking my way through some village deep in Europe then shitposting memes, but one day this will be cool
and they will be jealous
So what armor did vikings really wear? Only one visor helmet and chainmail was found and it's speculated if the lamellar armor found in Sweden didn't belong to foreigners. Hell that one hlmet guy might buy his shit in a foreign land and be a special snowflake for all we know. Do sagas describe their gear?
>>1056700
A coat of mail, an iron helmet, and a shield made of ash. That's the "native" gear, anyway, but as you say they often adopted better equipment while on a-viking (especially steel swords, very rare in Scandinavia).
the "Nords" faction in the game Mount&Blade: Warband gives you a pretty good idea of what gear the "vikings" wore in combat.
>>1056722
So did they found more than one coat of mail after all?
What would the philosophy autism bingo contain?
I'd say that utilitarianism, mind-body dualism, arguments for the existence of god, and logical positivism deserve a place.
>>1056681
Spooks
Being a philosopher.
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>embargo a country which is in a middle of a regional war in order for them to back off because you want to feel like World Police
>be surprised when they retaliate against a military target
>nuke entire cities and bomb the rest of the country to pieces
Why are americans so dumb?
>invade a country that's friendly to America
>be surprised when they place economic sanctions on you
>chimp out and bomb Pearl Harbor
Why were Japanese so dumb?
implying we weren't forcing them too attack us
>>1056387
>because you want to feel like World Police
America was still heavily isolationist.
>>1056368
Romanes eunt domus, Cannae best day of my life, Caesar a shit.
>>1056379
Claudius, we've got another Carthaginian rat.
Get the gladius.
>>1056368
Where the Imperial women at?