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Hey /his/, let's talk about ancient greece
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>>1046510
>eastern
>roman
>empire
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Proto-Romans
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>>1046510
They are all turks anyways
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Post historical figures who were manchildren
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Don't tell me you're to "mature" for booze and having a wicked sense of humor.
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"No, you can't slaughter all of the ethiopians because one insulted you..."
"You're not my real [collective security intergovernmental organisation]. Go to hell!"
I may be paraphrasing.
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Without this turning into a /pol/-tier race-baiting mudslinging shitfest, can we discuss the actual evidence for the existence of gas chambers and their use in world war 2?
From what I understand, as per the current official recount, all gas chambers are purported to have existed only in eastern europe in areas conquered by the USSR. And even in these camps, according the USSR claim, the gas chambers were destroyed prior to their capture, so all existing ones today are reconstructions. The initial claims were that all concentration camps in eurpe were extermination camps, but upon the allies conquering the western half of Germany and the inspection of those camps, the claim was later adjusted to only cover the concentration camps in eastern europe.
Just let me make clear that this is not a contested claim, this is the official version of events agreed on by both sides.
Now, I know the claims. What actual evidence is there for the existence of these chambers and their use in mass extermination? I've seen some unconvincing old photographs with rusty wooden doors that look more like entrances to bathrooms or sanitary deposits rather than actual gas chambers, since a functional gas chamber would need to be airtight.
I understand there are witness testimonies, but are there documents from the nazi side explicitly detailing the use of gas chambers on a massive scale? Are there any signed orders for the use of gas chambers? Any photographs or blueprints?
Again I'm don't want any /pol/tier mudslinging, just actual informative discussion on the existing evidence.
I find its really hard to even discuss this because of the vitriol that gets tossed. Someone once called me an anti-semite because I pointed out there were no gas chambers in bergen-belsen, even though this is something universally agreed on by all historians.
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Wasn't done by gas chambers. They aren't even efficient. The killing done was by ss firing squads. That's the only civilian killings ng that has sufficient evidence
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>>1046242
OP, if you didn't want a shit flinging mudfest, you should have not come here. I wish this thread luck.
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>>1046265
I find it so fucking funny how Nazis both will complain about how the Genocides commited by their ideological kin are made up and that the ones committed by their enemies are hushed down.
I know, it don't stop from one of them actually being right, but it's still funny to watch.
Name a better book on life advice.
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>>1046013
Proverbs is the only life advice book in there, though.
To be fair, it's pretty great.
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>being this plebian
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Why is Eastern Medieval history much more interesting than European Medieval history, /his/? I'd much rather read about the empires of the Byzantines, Ottoman Turks, Arabs and Mongols than a bunch of small city states and kingdoms unsure whether they're secular or not, arguing over whether the Pope is their leader or not and then killing each other in the name of Christ.
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>>1045936
Mmm.. Ok, why dont you do that then?
Wishes!
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Medieval Caucasus, Anatolia and Khorasan were 'exciting' places to live in for sure.
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>>1045936
k thanks for sharing your opinion.
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did hitler slow down globalism or speed it up?
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Idk if he had that much of an impact. I'm not saying millions dead wasn't an impact, but what did WWII change? Before the war...
>The British empire was already beginning to fade
>The US and USSR were already beginning to rise
>Even though they looked impressive on maps, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan couldn't compete with the might of the British Commonwealth Nations at full strength, let alone the US and USSR joining the war as well
The argument could be made that WWII changed the world much less than WWI did, despite it being much bloodier. Maybe it was just the reaction to the result of the first war, Germany and Japan trying to turn the clock back against globalization to the age of empires, but not necessarily speeding up globalization either.
I'm sure if Hitler didn't exist some other form of reactionary violence would've burst out of Germany at that time
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>>1045918
Accidentally speed it up. The tech invented to fight the war was important after the war. An example is Turing, Jet Planes, Nukes and V2, all the communication tech that was pushed. Globalism is the result of speedy transport and communication, and with WW2 there was a push of both to the maximum.
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>>1045918
Damn look how negroid his nose looks in this gif
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>Random and chaotic circumstances do not create complexity
Prove me wrong, /his/
>tfw when no /phil/
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>Random and chaotic circumstances do not create complexity
they do when you add selective pressures to them
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If the US's success as a world power is attributed to the vast amount of resources across a huge span of land and manpower, and distance from Europe so it wasn't bombed to shit in WWII, why did Canada not also rise to prominence?
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Canada did not, and still don't have as high population.
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Freaking Uganda has a bigger population then Canada
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because it is fucking colder and more isolated ffs
get back to basics
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Why was he so brutal?
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>>1045825
His mom hated him
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>>1045825
He had a tiny dick
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he had a huge dick as big as his hate for niggers
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Why did the confederates lose the war?
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Picket dropped his spaghetti @ Ghettysburg tbqh
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>>1045518
Because from day one, they planned to fight an asymmetric war, based in large part on the American experience during the Revolution. They would balance out the material advantages in things like population and wealth that the north had by greater commitment: They didn't need to win, just not lose.
However, they overlooked that while to Britain, America was a faraway overseas possession, and not even their most important (India), to Washington, the South was an integral part of the country, to be regained at almost any price, and they wouldn't stop coming until they won or were broken themselves.
They didn't have the resources for a direct material win, and misunderstood the political context that might have enabled them to gain a more coercive win.
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They went on the offensive.
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What is the endgame of philosophy?
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grow the mind of the animal known as human
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Truth, enlightenment, fulfillment, etc
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What is a "well-motivated position" in philosophy? It's not worth its own thread but I keep seeing it and I don't know what it really means.
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Origins of economic disparity between North & South Korea 2016-04-26 14:51:33 Post No.1045285
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Origins of economic disparity between North & South Korea
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What caused the North's economy to tank in the early 70s?
How come they were keeping pace with, and in some instances overtaking the South? What caused them to completely drop out of the race?
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>>1045285
I'm not even going to act like I know for a fact, but I'm pretty sure both were poor as shit and that's why it's so heavily correlated initially
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Oh yeah they were both poor as shit, but it just seems strange that they're fairly on the same footing until one year where the South steams ahead and the North flatlines.
Probably something to do with US investment being more economically productive than Soviet investment? I dunno.
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Looks like it correlates with 1973, could be a cause related to the 1973 oil crisis?
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Tell me about pre-Indo European Europe 2016-04-26 14:47:45 Post No.1045277
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Tell me about pre-Indo European Europe
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What's the story behind things like the Basque? Etruscans?
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>>1045277
They were already in when people start recording stuff.
Etruscans (and Iberians) did have somewhat complex civilizations that know writing, but their languages remain obscure, and will most likely remain that way.
Basques seems to have been more a primitive people, so while the language has survived/evolved, their forefather did not left any written record. They merged without much problem in the Roman Empire, they became independent again with the Fall of Empire, and their later history is linked with that of Spain and France.
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>>1045277
The Nuragics left behind a lot of monuments and the first statues in Europe but we do know much about them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zajFbLyklRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUxUbqEgFDU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTcCNXaMc-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1xdyOEWr_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K74juUnWuqw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erq2aLseuEQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJg6ZxfM58w
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>>1045277
It looks like basques were Iberians, no weird exotic shit. They were just the last Iberians, who, not conquered nor romanized, continued their Iberian ways forever, looking weird as shit to the rest.
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why was it barbers that conducted surgeries and dentistry in like 18-19th century? is it just myth? was it actually part of their profession to have some medical knowledge? or is it just because they were the only ones in the village that had tools that weren't completely useless for that purpose and were known to have a steady hand? or were they actually professional surgeons but small town didn't need them that bad that they could've made their living with it so they needed to have some side business?
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That was in the Middle Ages, and it wasn't all barbers, just some of them knew how to do simple surgery.
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>>1044923
but why barbers? why not local butcher or priest or teacher?
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>>1044933
Sharp knives and knowing how to use them with precision I assume.
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Why Did 6 Great Ape Species Survive But Only 1 Hominid Species? 2016-04-26 12:40:10 Post No.1044835
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Why Did 6 Great Ape Species Survive But Only 1 Hominid Species?
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My dad asked this question when I explained some circumstances surrounding Homo sapiens survival against all odds.
We know there is only one hominid species left in the world, Homo sapiens. We also know that there are only 6 other species of great apes left: 2 species of chimpanzees, 2 species of gorillas, and 2 species of orangutans. These 7 species are the last remaining in the family Hominidae.
All the other hominids besides Homo sapiens died out tens of thousands of years ago, and we believe the reason our ancestors survived is because we were more "adaptable", meaning we were not restricted to a single environment but could survive in many others. This is the reason we later spread out all over the world, and probably why we gained "sapience" and are able to contemplate these grim circumstances.
At one point, following the eruption of the Toba volcano 70,000 years ago, there were between 1,000 and 10,000 mating pairs of Homo sapiens left, though there may have been other hominid species alive at the time. My dad asked, if the hominids faced such grueling environments and all but a few died, why did the great apes fare any better? Why are there 6 extant non-human Hominidae species left, but only 1 hominid species?
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Humans are a generalist species, while the remaining apes are specialists.
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>>1044835
>why did the great apes fare any better?
Who says they did? They're all not far from extinction.
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>>1044835
Because hominids apart from humans failed to survive the changes in their environment, coupled with the fact that they had trouble breeding in large enough numbers to replace their population (with already extreamly high infant mortality due to the narrowing of the birth canal).