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>>3216421
>Was slavery historically beneficial for the actual African nations?

SLAVERY IS BENEFICIAL FOR NOONE.

>>3216432
It is beneficial for the people shipping the slaves away from their lands.

>this is what people on 4shit think
I need to leave this place

>>3216375
I'm fluent in Biblical Hebrew. It doesn't come up as useful very often though, and honestly the biggest impact in my life is to get perennially annoyed by how bad Bible translations tend to be.

>>3216375
Not fluent, but I'm learning Classical Latin and Koine Greek.

>>3216375
Trying to Learn Basque, does that count?

No
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>>3216170
>not even trying to make the bait subtle anymore by fabricating parameters or just sloppily writing an ill-informed opinion to incense people

no

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>>3216189
>>3216220
the chinese crossbow could penetrate the scutum. the research has been done. anyone who denies china would win is a stupid /pol/fag

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>As of 2015, Nigeria is the world's 20th largest economy, worth more than $500 billion and $1 trillion in terms of nominal GDP and purchasing power parity respectively. It overtook South Africa to become Africa's largest economy in 2014.

eurasian genes

>>3215855
It didn't. Ethiopia is trash in all economic stats compared to West African nations.
>but muh stone churches from 1000 years ago
Irrelevant.

Mercenaries reamined quite common for centuries, Hessians were popular for the British until the late 1700s. Switzerland only banned their citizens from becoming mercenaries in the late 1800s. Mercenaries are still popular in Africa.


Before the Renaissance I believe that Greek mercenaries were often used by the Persians and even fought against Alexander. Carthage was another famous example of extensive mercenary use. Auxiliary troops assisting Roman legions were often mercenaries hired from friendly peoples bordering Rome.

>>3215834
Mercenaries were ubiquitous in antiquity. For example; thousands of Greeks fought for the Persian kings for pay.

>>3215834
it wasn't just the renaissance though. the normans used mercenaries in england, mercenaries manned the frontiers of muslim spain, they fought in the byzantine east (the catalan company and its shenanigans, for example), hungary employed mercenary companies; matthias corvinus, i think, used them in his black watch extensively. then you have the routiers of the hundred years war and in the lulls of fighting b/t anglos and french the routiers would basically act as bandits and exort travellers. more enterprising routiers (see: john hawkwood) made there way into italy, which was at constant war between c. 1320 to 1450s. (and again after the french invaded the peninsula in 1494 to 1526). italy became something of an international hotspot, attracting germans, swiss and iberians to try their hand at soldiering, as the italian city-states used them heavily to war each other. the swiss were important mercenaries but I think they really came into their own during the italian wars, when they fought for the pope and the french (though i think they changed sides several times). the next big mercenary conflicts are the 30 years' war, with tilly and wallenstein spamming huge mercenary armies. you also have privateers in the mediterranean and atlantic over the next several hundred years which were essentially sea mercenaries.

It's all preordained. Sometimes there is a divine harmony to our lives with mind blowing coincidences.
Pretty epic imo.

>>3215822
You have to, it's predetermined.

even if you were predetermined to play a game and enjoy it, you still enjoyed it. it was fun in the moment, and you still got to have that.
if you were predetermined to watch a sunset and think it looked nice, it doesn't matter that you were always going to think it looked nice, you still got to watch it and think it looked nice.

the biggest risk when it comes to believing that determinism is true is to think 'well what's the point of anything any more?' and begin to wallow. if it turns out you were predetermined to become a basement-dwelling hermit because you couldn't handle the information you found, fine, but that's not much fun. sometimes it's best not to constantly hold these things in mind. separate what you know to be true from the day to day activities of your mind. that being said, if you believe it all to be predetermined you may as well do something stupid or fun with it - go skydiving or fight a shark or climb a mountain. it doesn't matter that your free will is an illusion - if you're clinging that hard to it maybe you need to evaluate why you value it so greatly. it still feels like you're making the decisions yourself, which in a way you are because even though you were always going to make that decision you are still the one who was always going to make it. moreover, your emotions cannot be denied. even if all of your emotional experiences were predetermined, it doesn't mean you can't still experience pleasure.

if none of that helps maybe it's worth looking into stoicism.

I glad I caught this meme before it peaked, when it was still funny a few days ago.

>>3215641
I was on /his/ the last few days and didn't see anything like this.

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>hitler
>chad

>Wants to be edgy Post Modernist
>Hears the God is dead quote and get massive boner not understanding its greater context
>"i love Nietzsche"

>>3215568
So I'm not wrong thinking they're retarded for thinking he would buy into their absolute relativist bullshit? I mean I have barely touched him yet and only started reading his work because Dr. Peterson talked about him so much. Also the reason I read The Gulag archipelago and that was one of the best books I've ever read

>>3215555
I actually found the same thing. Post modernists from their padded ivory towers normalizing comfort as an endgame being the last men.

Don't know where you got that idea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pact

>>3215438
during the Civil War Lebanese people got the fuck out and went to the west. After they left, Syrians and Jordanians (which had a much higher proportion of Muslims) moved in

concentration gradients and solutions and what not

>>3215438
>how did X become muslim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastasis

>>3215091
Weak ath*nian found

>>3215091
Gotta kill something

>>3215091
There are people who still don't know this shit? Spartans were the ultimate assholes. Anyone who knew the least bit of Greek history was chuckling at the 300 film and its Braveheart tier freedom speeches.

>>3215053
We actually do know a fair bit about Manichaeism due to surviving fragments and more.

>Does anybody know what Mani's message for life actually was? What were Manichaean morals?
The social organization of Manichaeism was broken into two groups of peoples: The Hearers and the Elect. In order to explain what both do it's necessary understand Manichaeism's cosmogony. I will quote from my play here:

"in the beginning, the kingdoms of light and darkness were eternally separated. In the North, the resplendent Kingdom of Light was ruled by the venerated
21Father, surrounded by his emanating archangels. All was well and beautiful until the loathsome Prince of Darkness, from his Dark Kingdom in the South, invaded with his five worlds: black smoke, scorching fire, chilling breeze, turbid water, and indelible darkness. The Father, in retaliation, derived the First Man to subdue these dark forces. He descended emanating his Living Soul, composed of the five elements: warm fire, refreshing wind, limpid water, light, and ether. The abysmal demons opened their mouths and attempted to swallow his Living Soul, which is identical to thy Lord!

ith guile, the First Man spread his Living Soul over the vile beasts. His Living Soul rained down crystalline water and crept into their inner darkness. The five worlds of the evil ones absorbed the divine elements of the Living Soul without knowing it! The war was finally over at last, with the monsters' satiated. The Father, finally, sent his Second Son, the Living Spirit, to retrieve his brother. The Living Spirit communes with the shattered pieces of Living Soul, urging it to break from the binds of darkly matter and remigrate to the Kingdom of Light!"

CONTINUED

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>>3215053

>>3215427
Demiurge be ye gone! You smell!

>>3214828
Overrated

>>3214828
Aurelian > Aurelius

>>3214890
Aurelius had a better beard

"Empire"

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>This is what Sweden calls an "empire"

>empire
*great power
i dont know why it's called an empire in english.
t. swede
anyway yes i agree that we had some pretty cool kings in this time period.

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>Even more disturbing later letters from Billy Hughes to his political colleagues reveal that Billy Hughes and his associates strongly supported the Black Hand society, a Serbian nationalist group who would, only six years later go on and assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand and trigger WW1.

>Frank Tudor, a long-time friend of Billy Hughes visited Belgrade once in 1909 & again in 1911, in diaries describing the Serbians as the Australians of Europe. Geoffrey Bolton, a famous Australian Historian claimed that Frank Tudor, while in Belgrade stayed at the residence of Dragutin Dimitrijević who would go on to become the Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence, and who would go on to command the Serbian conspirators who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

>What is strange, if Geoffrey Bolton, a respected historian is to be believed; is why would a lesser-known politician from an even lesser-known country would be meeting with the Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence who would go on to order the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, who Frank Tudors dear friend Billy Hughes described as being a weak & self indulgent cretin, and in his owns words said: “If the Old Countries are ruled by such people, then the old countries deserve to burn.”
Alas, while Dragutin Dimitrijević was never mentioned in any letters written by Billy Hughes or Frank Tudor, letters between Major General Charles Frederick Cox & Major General John Forsyth reference Dragutin Dimitrijević. In one letter sent in reply by General Cox to General Forsyth, who sent a letter regarding the troubles occurring in the Balkans, in General Cox's own words said that as long as the Belgrade Battler Dimitrijević drew breath, the weak willed Austrians would surely get a good licking. A large number of these letters are at the Museum of the Riverina, in Wagga Wagga NSW. These letters may be viewed by request.

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>Both Major General Charles Frederick Cox & Major General John Forsyth were good friends of Billy Hughes.

>Even more disturbing, there is a letter currently in the possession of the Museum of Military History in Vienna, Austria, in which Major Vojislav Tankosić wrote to a fellow black hand member that Dragutin Dimitrijević never had a thought that the little corporal didn't have first. Now, who Vojislav is reffering to is up for debate, but it is important to note that Billy Hughes was a short man with a short temper and volatile nature, and was often called the Little Corporal by his political opponents, and would go on to gain the nickname during WW1, the little digger.

>There are also letters from Billy Hughes sent to Frank Tudor in 1911 discussing the health of the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef almost maliciously & sarcastically in the words he used. Even more strange is that not long after these letters had been sent, Dragutin Dimitrijević would execute a failed assasination attempt on the Austrian Emperor, Franz Josef.
When Austrian authorities interrogated several black hand members following the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, one member claimed, after naming Dimitrijević, Milan Ciganović, and Major Voja Tankosić that they were following orders from an Englishman, the other six members of the black hand society claimed to have no knowledge of an Englishman in the black hand society, so this testimony was disregarded.

>Although no letters are known to exist today written by Billy Hughes or his conspirators from around the time of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, there are letters in possession of the War Memorial in Canberra which Billy Hughes writes to Frank Tudor overjoyed about the outbreak of the Great European War, claiming that this is the time for Australia is exert itself on the world stage.

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>Infact, this should be no surprise to any one familiar with Australian history during WW1, as Billy Hughes almost never ending push for war & Australian dominance on the world stage led to the prime minister at the time, Andrew Fischer to resign in favour of Billy Hughes.

>Once Billy Hughes became prime-minister of Australia, Australia's commitment to the great war became absolute.
Billy Hughes was also unhappy with the stalemate on the Western Front, and often sent word to John Monash that the forces of the British Empire (including Australia) & the French should remain on the offensive at all costs. He also became increasingly impatient with the British who he saw as being weak, and claimed if he was prime-minister of Britain that the empire would already have troops across the Rhine.

>Billy Hughes & Frank Tudor often referred to the Germans as being huns, which at the time was not uncommon; but they held these views regarding the Germans even before the outbreak of WW1. Billy Hughes was also unhappy the Germans had colonies to the north of Australia even before the war, colonies he viewed as rightfully belonging to Australia.