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Piss off, Archie

>>920563
>What was it about the idea of monarchy that they found to be bullshit?
To prevent a tyrant king from showing up. This was before feudalism and Christianity so people weren't nearly as willing to allow a person to rule over them.

>>920563
What the fuck are you talking about

>>920563


Probably because, despite what Livy claimed, there were probably several families of roughly equal power and involvement with the overthrow of the Tarquins, none of whom wanted to cede authority, which led to a power sharing arrangement and eventually republic.

define "batshit"

Many stories about "mad" emperors were fabrications or exaggerations by political rivals who understood that a story about a Emperor making his horse a senator and attacking the ocean would spread more quickly among the uneducated and easily amused plebs as opposed to a "he made policies I don't like and don't benefit me" stories

They had lead in their wine.

>>920501
Arguably only 2 emperors were insane for sure, Elagabalus (a transgender North African who liked to prostitute himself in the imperial palace) and Commodus (who functionally a giant asshat who was probably a psychopath, given how much he enjoyed killing and watching the act of killing that even surprised the Romans)

Caligula and Nero were likely more spoiled assholes than anything else. Domitian was just a dick to the Senate and christians. Tiberius was just paranoid.


I'd also say that Justinian's successor was insane, considering that he apparently needed to be chained to a bedpost in order to prevent him from gnawing on people later in his life

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>>920480
Kant's thing-in-itself. If you know what I mean.

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You Kant know.

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>>920480

That which accounts for the sensory data of experience; that which cannot be known like the phenomenal, physical, natural world can be known, but that which can be merely conceived as "that which appears" underlying the spatiotemporal appearance known by me; the correlate that explains, grounds, the phenomenal world-as-appearance; that which is independent of the forms of the human mind, independent of the ways in which the human mind imposes regular order upon the raw data given within the human mind's faculty of sensibility (the human mind's faculty for receiving sense data).

In other words: within my mind arises sensations of colors and temperatures and textures and tastes and smells - and the thing-in-itself is the ground of all this consequent sense data given within the innate forms of my mind; my mind has innate functions, operations characteristic of it, that structure this given sensory content into the orderly, regular, intelligible, predictable patterns that characterize the natural world and this world's progression through time.

Me

t.eggspert

>>920294
They had slaves. That's literally the reason technological innovation was so slow during the Roman Empire particularly (though only compared to today). The Greek Alexandrian who built the first steam device was like "this shit is useless when you have slaves who can do this shit far more easily". Plus the major pitfall of mechanisation is that it puts people out of work, and most people in the ancient world were only seasonally employed to begin with.

>>920310
But imagine heavy industrialization and slaves... just.

>>920294
The steam engine was a consequence of industrialization, and the knowledge of steam by the Ancients doesn't mean a steam engine anymore than the knowledge of oil mean an internal combustion engine.

>>920263
the ten commandments comprised the mosaic law, which became defunct with the establishment of the new covenant ("spiritual Israel").

so no, you've shown yourself incredibly ignorant to how Christianity functions in modern times

>>920381
>the ten commandments comprised the mosaic law
>comprised
Stop using words if you don't know what they mean

>>920403
verb: comprise; 3rd person present: comprises; past tense: comprised; past participle: comprised; gerund or present participle: comprising

1. consist of; be made up of.
2. make up; constitute

Not sure what you thought I meant.

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>>920216

>>920186
If the bulk of German forces either took the Moscow-Leningrad railways or took Moscow, then yes. The problem originated with the splitting of forces attempting to complete each at once. If the entire force attacked only one object, then it would have been possible.

>>920233
That do depend heavily on.
The Soviets had been bulking up their armed forces near Moscow, so if the Germans had attacked their they may very well just have ran into a wall without making much progress. Even if they would have reached Moscow it don't mean they would have taken it, just like they didn't take Stalingrad and I am rather sure that city was in a shakier position.
Not advancing towards the Caucasus may actually have crippled the German war engine as they then would have been without the large amount of oil sources they conquered on the way,

>>920116
What the fuck is a "true heir"

>>920116
They aren't even the most Orthodox country in the world.

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>>920116

>>919938
Machiavelli wasnt even a good political theorist.

literally who

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>>920320

Everything.
He didn't live forever.

>>919767
Boston Massacre

You see that and you assume rivers of blood, the dead and wounded laying all over the street. Instead, you get 5 deaths, 2 of them occurring afterwards from wounds, 6 other people hurt and the first guy shot is someone who basically only exists as a folk legend beyond his name.

The Berlin Airlift
The Beira Patrol
The Red Scare
all good band names

The Hundred Days.

The Reign of Terror and the Red Terror.

Battle of the Nations.

Spring of Nations.

The Black Legend (not an event but still sounds cool).

La Noche Triste

>>919589
Sick meme brah

>>919576
He was just a dumb contrarian who didn't have the sense to realize that paganism wasn't cool anymore. Much like today's nationalists

Aerodynamics

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first air force

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The wings were actually black and attached to the saddle, not white and attached to the rider's back. That is how it is depicted in virtually all period art. Unfortunately I can't remember where I have all of it saved.