If the Mongol Empire were such a meritocratic, all inclusive society, then how come all the leading commanders and leaders of the Mongols were, well, Mongol?
Checkmate John Green.
>>3212709
But there actually were? For one thing there were shitloads of Turkic commanders in the Mongol Empire's army. Considering they made up most of Central Asia's population.
In addition there's also plenty of Chinese who rose to very high ranks in the Mongol Empire & Successor states. Subutai, and later on Hulagu's enforcer was the brilliant general Guo Kan, an ethnic Chinese officer who was made Governor of Baghdad. During the Mongol conquest of the Song Dynasty it was 1/2 Foreign invasion and 1/2 Chinese civil war, with Chinese subjects leading the fight in mountainous and riverine Southern China. The final victory of Khubilai Khan versus the Song Dynasty was led by admiral Zhang Hongfan.
So I'm trying to do some research on the Mac an Ghabhann (Smith, McGowen) Clan of Ireland. I've learned they're a military clan out of County Cavan, but I can't find any sources of battles or any sort of personal clan history apart from the history of the surname. Does anyone have or know of any sources I could use in my efforts?
>>3212671
Why does your clan crest kind of look like goatse?
No idea. It's just the Coat of Arms I've found for it.
2 Kings 3:
>26 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom; but they could not. 27 Then he took his firstborn son who was to succeed him, and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. And great wrath came upon Israel, so they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.
Wow, so child sacrifice actually works?
>>3212554
Yes. The Jews practice it to this day.
>>3212554
Yes
I think in the early bible it's portrayed as the Israelites and their god vs others and their god(s). The notion that Israel's God is the only real one and no others exist came later
>>3212554
it's called a metaphor, something you're apparently too autistic to comprehend.
You were too good for this wretched world.
>>3212490
>communist multiethnic empire isolated from other commies and made up of fucking slavs
Should've gotten bombed harder.
Greater Albania when?
>>3212490
What flag is that over Mexico?
>>3212549
Russian Colonial flag.
Were the Confederates justified in their secession from the Union?
>>3212380
Yes. The majority of people in the south wanted out. That's all that is needed.
>bunch of slave owning cunts rebel against their motherstate because it is trying limit their business opportunities
>founding fathers were such brave men that stood up against the tyranny
>bunch of slave owning cunts rebel against the union because it is trying limit their business opportunities
>reeeeeeeeeeeeeee fucking confederate traitors!!!!!!!!11111!111!11!!!
all "muh freedoms" rhetoric of the south is made trivial by their literal slave economy
Will we ever get over the almost mystic disbelief that, despite the unthinkable and incredibly disproportionate damage inflicted, Operation Barbarossa failed? We've never seen anything like it in history and it will no doubt be quite some time until its like happens again.
I think this lies at the root of every WW2 thread posted here.
Is multiculturism inevitable? In countries like the USA, there are millions of people spread out over thousands of miles, how can you keep a culture uniform like that without cruel government oppression when there are all kinds of regional differences and even different spiritual mentalities within a population?
Try it if you can, eurangutan.
>>3212252
Multiculturalism is a fucking buzzword without a proper definition and is constantly being thrown around. Multi-ethnic does not imply multi-cultural the same way that multi-cultural does not imply multi-ethnic. Neither does multiculturalism imply some sort of equality between different cultural groups as is parroted today.
If anything the world is going down the path of LESS multiculturalism with increasing globalization but some people are retarded and believe that if you have a black dude, a white dude, an asian dude and an indian dude that all speak the same language, watch the same movies, listen to the same music, celebrate the same holidays and follow the same traditions as "multi-cultural" while five white dudes with different languages, religions, traditions and holidays are somehow a single monolithic culture.
Also, fuck this marxist bullshit.
>>3212252
When most people complain about multi-culturalism, they aren't advocating for a monolithic culture but rather a return to a feeling of national solidarity. The fact of the matter is that nationalism is no longer encouraged like it was 200 hundred years ago since it's not consistent with the neoliberal model.
I recently been listening to a art history professor talk about how alot of famous artist study Greek and roman artwork to inspire them and used them to study from also. I gotten quite a few images from google but seeing if anyone else might find some nice high res images even some sculptors I never seen before. this could be the wrong place to post this kind of request sorry ahead of time for bad english and post.
>>3212193
just go to a museum lol
I don't have any museum that have old greek and roman artwork close by they are all all modern..
I have a couple...
Just finished reading pic related. I also read Poilu by Louis Barthas and Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger.
What are other great memoirs?
Bonus points for pre ww1 ones.
a stranger to myself is pretty good, even left unfinished like it was
>>3212119
Memoirs of General Radola Gajda (Moje paměti) are very good even as info about Russian civil war and especialy stuff around Kolchak (including politics in Russia and study of problems of White Russian armies/governments. Its easy to find pdf file, but its only in Czech
Just remembered Cossack Girl haven't read it but also on my list.
Where the fuck did this meme that capitalism is "natural" come from? I'm generally in favour of capitalism but this argument really grinds my gears. It's just as made up as literally every ideology ever conceived, yet I rarely see anyone else claim their ideology is "natural" but for most capitalists it's like a fucking commandment.
How did this start and why not with any other ideologies?
It's bullshit spouted by brainlets who think that selling and buying = capitalism
Ancient world palace economies, medieval feudalism and early modern beginnings of capitalism have very little to do with modern capitalism
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Capitalism is human nature, socialism is human nurture. It's just another us vs them our brains randomly are programmed to prefer.
>>3211994
Capitalism is genocide
>tfw no planned economy, monarchist, proto-socialist utopia state
Fucking hate eurangutans
Are you chilean?
Incas were superior to europeans. History demonstrates it. Get over it, monkey.
>europeans
more like europeons amirite xD
Once Europe and N. America collapses and becomes third world tier civil war shitholes, the people who are descended from those proto-communist societies will once more carry socialist principle and go beyond the collapsing global capitalist muck of shit. Marx already realised those proto-communist societies of indians had far greater vitality and will than the both ancient and modern europeans, but lacked the technical means.
Post these
>>3211909
I wasn't aware there were variations of this meme.
>>3211909
Last thread was a good one
Post more obscure/interesting /his/ related pages here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pact_Ribbentrop_-_Beck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_of_Queen_Victoria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Solar_Temple
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriori
Why do people hate the concept of white privilege or in any other respective country, majority privilege? You don't have the choice of where you're born. If you're born as a black, mexican, Jew, asian, arab, Native American,, in a country in the western world like the US or Sweden. You didn't have the choice of being born there and likely have no more money than anybody else to move back to your country of origin. So, yes, the people who are born in a country they aren't part of the majority in are usually less privileged than the majority, why do people fail to grasp this concept?
>>3211854
>You didn't have the choice of being born there
Neither did anyone else
>>3211854
They don't fail to grasp it, you dumb fuck, America teaches it's children that it's a meritocracy, any social system that places one person above another based on anything other than merit of character/performance is unmeritocratic, whydo you fail to grasp this simple concept?
Because it's a bunch of rich Jews saying middle class white people have all the power and "cheated"
Privileged just meant you came from money when I was growing up
There was this really great video on youtube I found from here about ww2 and how it was all a sham. It got taken down (who knows why).
It started going stupidly indepth, talking about how something like 3 swastikas on the side of this guys plane means zion or some bullshit. Wondering if anyone knows a reup?