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>>899199
Controlled opposition.

Next question.

>Majority protestant region
>Want region to join Catholic Ireland
Why?
What were they hoping to accomplish?

Scum, subhuman scum

Julian the Apostate

>>898010
Marius, Sulla, Lucullus, Catilina, Cicero, Pompey, Caesar all rolled into one. From 110 BC to 44 BC. Or maybe to 27 BC even.

William the Conqueror.

Robert Guiscard.

Otto the Great, Barbarossa, Frederick II (fuck the Pope).

Heraclius, Majorian, Maurice, Belisarius (hero doesn't win endings are all too rare).

>>898010
Hannibal. A Punic wars film trilogy would be great.

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>>895466
> but alternative historians believe they're involved in homer's odissey and that their history is very ancient.


Some writers linked the island of the Feaci to Sardinia because of a number of reasons, for instance Alcinous' royal palace's description shares many similarities with complex Nuraghi.

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The three civilizations they targeted - Mycenean, Hittite and Egyptian - were undergoing some massive, catastrophic economic crises, most probably because of climate changes in the East Mediterranean coasts.

The raids by the Sea Peoples were a symptom, not the disease. They took advantage of these dying or near-dying cities.

Tales of successful raids, with plunderers boasting about their new, ill-gotten bling to corroborate them, would invite further raiders.

I'm of the mind that the Sea Peoples, while initially from some homeland, were mostly made up of large groups of dispossessed and otherwise hopeless people who took to piracy during the Bronze Age Collapse.

>>907287
>homework
try >>>/hm/
you should fit right in

>>907287
Kill la kill yourself, homeworkfag

They were black kings from Timbuktu

>>907305
>>907321
b-but this a board specific to history ...

pls guise... i promise I'll support your claim as emperor of Constantinople or whatever gets you guys to help me...

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no they were mostly black i think

>>907066
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>>906890
Wasnt he into BDSM?

Sam Harris.

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>>906390
Thankfully, two plus two does equal four. There is absolute truth, and it can be found and understood.

To make the statement that there is no absolute truth is illogical. Yet, today, many people are embracing a cultural relativism that denies any type of absolute truth. A good question to ask people who say, “There is no absolute truth” is this: “Are you absolutely sure of that?” If they say “yes,” they have made an absolute statement—which itself implies the existence of absolutes. They are saying that the very fact there is no absolute truth is the one and only absolute truth.

Beside the problem of self-contradiction, there are several other logical problems one must overcome to believe that there are no absolute or universal truths. One is that all humans have limited knowledge and finite minds and, therefore, cannot logically make absolute negative statements. A person cannot logically say, “There is no God” (even though many do so), because, in order to make such a statement, he would need to have absolute knowledge of the entire universe from beginning to end. Since that is impossible, the most anyone can logically say is “With the limited knowledge I have, I do not believe there is a God.”

Another problem with the denial of absolute truth/universal truth is that it fails to live up to what we know to be true in our own consciences, our own experiences, and what we see in the real world. If there is no such thing as absolute truth, then there is nothing ultimately right or wrong about anything. What might be “right” for you does not mean it is “right” for me. While on the surface this type of relativism seems to be appealing, what it means is that everybody sets his own rules to live by and does what he thinks is right. Inevitably, one person’s sense of right will soon clash with another’s.

>>906403
For example: What happens if it is “right” for me to ignore traffic lights, even when they are red? I put many lives at risk. Or I might think it is right to steal from you, and you might think it is not right. Clearly, our standards of right and wrong are in conflict. If there is no absolute truth, no standard of right and wrong that we are all accountable to, then we can never be sure of anything. People would be free to do whatever they want—murder, rape, steal, lie, cheat, etc., and no one could say those things would be wrong. There could be no government, no laws, and no justice, because one could not even say that the majority of the people have the right to make and enforce standards upon the minority. A world without absolutes would be the most horrible world imaginable.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed.

>>906328
Nobody cares about slavshits and sandnigger history

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>>906328
I can see your point on iconoclasm. That is eerily similar the the dirty muzzies, but everything else falls pretty flat. Justinians code was not religiously backed, it was the assembling of secular law of from as far back as pagan times. And how was Justinian a proto-caliph? Because he was the divinely mandated ruler? Then every ruler ever who claimed diviNE right to rule was as well. And shut the fuck up about the Hagia Sophia. The Arabs saw its greatness, knew they could never create a equally magnificent style and copied it. It still posses me off seeing that stupid caligraphy in there.
Also genetic similarities don't make people the same. Jordanians are bro tier and Iran was great pretty revolution. Islamic fundamentalism has ruined the turk, not their genetics.

>>906028
the advent of fast food, corn subsidies, and the ever faster pace of modern life.

polynesians being fat is a post-colonial health problem caused by high glucose western food

Their food. Man, they eat egg and bacon for breakfast, that's gross.

>>905872
Nobody. Americans just wanted sovereignty. I think a people that yell liberty and freedom while holding onto slavery seems a little hypocritical in my opinion.

>>905872

The fucking MEXICANS.

Goddamn spicks.

The British model had always been to run colonies as a for-profit enterprise.

The colonists didn't want to contribute that profit.

Like everything in history, economic concerns drove social and political events.

Under modern international law, the colonists would be justified, because right to self determination.

Also, it doesn't make sense to have a place that's capable of self governing run from a capital that's across an ocean. Even in the modern era, that shit just wouldn't work, let alone in the age of sail.

They do.

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>>905840
Why am i laughing so hard at this?

>>905847
Proofs?

>>905084
u can't kno nuffin

>>905087
That's epistemology though.

I learned that morality is subjective

>>904982
bankers

>>904982
You'd think it would be the farmers, but it almost never is. It's usually the violent men.

>>905002
/thread

>>904842
>What made Rome better than Greece (which was best ancient civ IMO)?
It was better because they took and expanded the ideas and culture that the Greeks made all across Europe. There's a reason why Greece is called the bedrock of Western Civilization because that's where it all started, but not spread which it did thanks to the Romans.

The Romans also contributed a lot on their own with language (romance) architecture (roads, concrete) and military. The last point is especially importany as this was where Rome suceeded where Greece failed; keeping military domination. Rome had an actual long lasting empire with consistently great generals. I make this comparison since both Rome and Greece were military societies.

>Who were their greatest leaders and why?
There are many contenders but I would wager Augustus. He started the Pax Romana, an period of peace that the Romans would never see again while, of course, basically creating the empire. Others include Trajan who extended the empire's borders to their max.

>What made their empire so great, and more so the British, Persian, Ottoman, Mongolian, Macedonian and Napoleonic empires?
Impact, always. The legacy of the Romans are still sigjificantly felt today and while some of the empires you listed (like the British and Napoleon) had substantial impact in the world, the Romans were simply greater. Meanwhile some of the ones you listed had little impact or none at all barring the Persians. entities in Europe and outside of it dreamed to be Roman like and claimed to be Roman themselves. Caesar is literally a by word for leader.


>What were their greatest military victories?
Samnite Wars, Punic Wars, Gallic Wars.


>What did they have that the other ancient civs like Greece, Egypt, Persia, Assyria, Carthage and Babylon not have?

Roman spirit. Sounds cheesy but it's true. It's how they won the punic wars and perserved so long (6th to 13th century ERE)

You don't become a Romaboo. We are all Roman.

quality olive oil

>>904842
>What made their empire so great, and more so the British, Persian, Ottoman, Mongolian, Macedonian and Napoleonic empires?
They were the first empire ever to have a full standing army
This feat wasn't acchieved again until the 15th century by Ottomans

>>904401
Christianity is a destabilizing peasant religion with slave morality. It would be disastrous for China because it would eventually collapse just like it has in Europe, leaving a cultural desert ripe for the picking. China can actually recover from the Cultural Revolution, and continue to reestablishing Confucian thought, because Chinese spiritual practices are not tied to the government and are also truely pluralistic and organic. They don't need priests and religious bodies to organize their spiritual traditions for them, and so those traditions don't just disappear when the institutions decay.

>>904555
>Confucianism
>not slave mentality
Hello Chang hows Canada?

We would have had the Warlord Era hit half a decade earlier than it did. A good portion of the Taiping Rebellion were just dissatisfied with the Qing instead of actually believing in the Heavenly Kingdom.