Did the armenian genocide actually happen?
>>997993
No, it was a series of spontaneous massacres resulting from the chaos of war and social collapse, not an orchestrated genocide.
>>998008
But, if in the end, a huge portion of Armenians end up dead, is that not a genocide? They still were killed in large numbers.
Does intent really matter if the result is the same?
THE TURKS DIDNU NUFFIN
THEY WERE GOOD BOYS
How do the Germans teach WW1 and WW2?
How do the British teach the American Revolution?
They tell us about the objective truths written down by our former enemies.
>>997955
German here
>WW1
The manifestation of Imperialism and chauvinistic Militarism. Mainly caused by Austria-Hungary, Russia and Germany although pretty much every major power could have done more to stop it
>WW2
Hitlers ideology made him wage a war against Poland and later the USSR. There are many factors which lead to his rise like Versailles, the financial crisis and the weak Weimer constitution. And we discuss if there was some sort of collective guilt after the war (not Erbschuld).
>>998724
Interesting, German here too, from which Bundesland are you?
I'm fascinated by this event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_the_Romanov_family
Could you show me some books on the matter? Feel free to discuss it among yourself.
>>997921
It's basically the final result of Bernie Sanders philosophy.
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
The Romanovs: the Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie
The Last Tsar: The Life and Death
The Resurrection of the Romanovs: Anastasia, Anna Anderson and the World's Greatest Mystery
Or if you're interested in the people themselves, Helen Azar has published several translations of most of the daughter's diaries, or rather the volumes that they didn't burn. Helen Rappaport has a new book called The Romanov Sisters but I'm not wild about some of her interpretations.
>>997921
Should happen to his cousins in the UK and to all royal families in the world as well.
How was your Sunday School this morning?
>it's a talk about politics episode
>it's an if evolution is true, why aren't we still evolving episode
>it's a we need to get back to the word of God episode
>it's a never open the bible episode
Then the actual service
>it's a jeremiah 29:11 episode
It's hard being protestant.
>>997697
What country are you in heretic?
>Old Testament
How terrifying.
>>997697
>school at sunday
What the flying fuck.
What is the actual justification for this man being celebrated with a holiday? I get wanting to teach Americans a narrative that painted the nation's history in a mostly positive light, but why base the story on an actual piece of shit? Couldn't we have just made up a guy and say he discovered America? Not this murderous psychopath?
>piece of shit
How come only SJWs use this expression?
>>997626
>SJWs
Haven't been here in a while, has /pol/ officially taken over
>>997630
>only /pol/ hates SJWs
I want to talk about Ireland, /his/.
Was the Battle of Clontarf really what removed vikings, or was the Battle of Tara a more key conflict? I feel like Brian Boru is overhyped.
>>997414
>irish history in green text
>lol we're free
>oh fuk is dat dem anglo-saxons
>please stop raping us
>please it's been a few hundred years of rape please stop
>fuck sake we're hungry and full of cum
By the late 10th century they had lost most of their power and autonomy and from then on they just gradually assimilated into the Irish population, but they weren't 'removed' until the 1170s when the Normans took over.
Why do white people pretend that only they built the modern world? Europeans were living in mudhuts while the rest of the world discovered architecture and agriculture and on the grand scale of things are quite late to the party when it comes to development.
DELETE THIS
If anything I sure that Australian aborigines contributed nothing.
>>997132
Maybe, but it still doesn't address OP's question. Also get ready for /pol/ incoming.
A force for good or a force for bad? Did they destabilize the political sphere of rome as a republic, leading to the political struggles that created the (objectively worse) empire?
Or were they just some of the greatest political activists, gaining rights for the common man at the cost of their lives?
>>996962
>thinking the Empire was worse than the Republic
Nigga, are you serious? Maybe for patricians.
>>997000
The republic was better
>>997006
>Social wars
>Plebian-Patrician struggles over political rights
Not really.
Been listening to a history series about histories greatest military strategist thinkers. Thought I'd run the list of people discussed in the series by /his/ for opinions. They are:
Thucydides
Sun Tzu
Machiavelli
Napoleon
Jomini
Clausewitz
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Julian Corbett
Mao Tse-tung
The rest of the series doesn't focus on individuals but generals like counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, nuclear strategy and air power etc.
>>996789
>Mao Tse-tung.
The Guerilla War consists of ideas lifted from the true military brains of the CCP, Peng Dehuai and Zhu De.
Mao was a politician, not a military man.
>>996818
Actually one of the big things he likes to talk about in the series is about relation between politics and military and political leaders with military leaders.
>>996789
Napoleon. Whatever you think the answer is always Napoleon.
What does /his/ think of Metatron?
Thought he was going to be complete shit like Lindybeige, but turns out he's actually an history professor.
Any other decent Youtube history channels out there?
>>996647
>an history
Anyways, fuck metatron, Historia Civilis is back, have you guys noticed? Just putting it out there.
>>996647
>Can read ancient egyptian, speak chinese, japanese, latin, italian, english
>I've been trying to learn french for about 2 years and still barely can even grasp it and still suck shit at rolling my R's.
Fuck I hate multilingual people, my ex's sister could speak like 6 languages.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar
This is probably the most professional history channel on youtube.
What happened to Greek/Roman/Nordic/Etc. Polytheism? Does it still exist today? How did the religions even come about and get taught? Were there religious Holy books like Abrahamic Religions have?
It does exist today, in the form of edgy neopaganism
>What happened to Greek/Roman/Nordic/Etc. Polytheism?
Jesus
>Does it still exist today?
Not in its original form
>How did the religions even come about and get taught?
Oral tradition, even the Greeks originally chanted & sung their legends
>Were there religious Holy books like Abrahamic Religions have?
No
I only know this from my endless wandering around the internet, but from what I gather they were more or less just the myths and fables that fulfilled the role of spirituality in ancient Greece/Rome.
During the early years of these civilisations they were believed more literally, but keep in mind there was no uniform idea of what actual worship/belief in these tales was and that it wasn't really as all-pervasive as the Christian/Islamic faiths that would come to replace it. You had things like the mysteries, which were secretive cults that deemed themselves to hold "higher knowledge" that only initiates would be revealed, then you had things like public worship/animal sacrifices that could be invoked for good harvests, victory in war, social recognition, etc.
As time went on and Roman civilisation proved to be a stable consistent in the world, people became less religious and instead turned began to see these stories more as just metaphors for the human condition rather than actual events.
As far as holy books go, there wasn't really any "central doctrines," but I'm sure there were plenty of treaties/religious documents that would explain the intricacies of these belief systems to those so inclined to study them.
They kind of exist today, in the form of Hellenistic and Roman revivalism, but it's hard to claim that these are the exact same belief systems as their ancient counterparts, due largely to the fact that a lot of knowledge has been lost. As far as neo-pagans go, however, they're probably among the more "authentic," since at the very least more knowledge of Greco-Roman religions exists than of Slavic/Norse/Baltic etc. religions.
Sources: Me, a drunk guy shitposting on 4chan
So what if the Japanese ended up getting the aircraft carriers as well and it all went perfectly, would it have been enough to knock USA out of the war?
>>996414
no it would have just taken a little longer
you weren't knocking the USA out of the war by taking out a few carriers
Oh my fuck, get lost with this thread. You make it everyday and the answer won't ever change. NO Fuck off!!
>>996428
>MUH AMERICAN PRODUCTION RATES
fuck off troll
Will Egalitarianism work for humanity, or it's a forlorn idea like a marathon runner trying to out-run while deep in quick-sand?
>>996230
Define egalitarianism
Is the alternative being fucked by someone else?
>>996240
context and story behind picture plox
Were they in the right? Were the intolerable acts actually "intolerable"?
I grew up in the USA so obviously I was told that they were justified but I wonder what the rest of you guys think.
>>995998
Thomas Benjamin here, can confirm it was bullshit.
The truth is there was absolutely zero reason why the colonies should have ever given a shit about what Britain thought other than "they'll wreck out shit if they don't".
Literally as soon that scale started to even out a bit, the revolution started rolling forward.
they were justified because they were eventually victorious, thats all
Tell me about cowboys and the wild west. How long was it this period? Are gun duels a myth? Was the use of the revolver really overblown?
Most of the things you see now about the Wild West are pretty overblown. Duels didnt really happen, and neither did massive gang shoot outs. Alot of tons actually had disarmament policies as well, so while it was probably common for people to carry firearms with them the saloon shoot outs and things you see in movies were not.
As for the revolver, they were pretty groundbreaking when they first came out. iirc they really caught on when the texas rangers started using them and loved them.
>>995919
But shoot outs did happen though right, like the ok corral. Where there any others? I love revolvers but I always assumed they must have been like a side arm like the katana meme.
>On July 21, 1865, in Springfield, Missouri, Hickok confronted Davis Tutt in a "quick draw duel". –the first of its kind. Fiction later popularized Hickok's "quick draw gunfight" as typical, but Hickok's is the first one on record to fit the portrayal. During the duel, rather than the face-to-face fast-draw as is commonly shown in movies, the two men faced each other sideways in the historic dueling stance (presenting a smaller target), drawing and aiming their weapons before firing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Wild_Bill%22_Hickok