Did Hitler base his entire Aryan theory on the fact that Iranians and Indians share a common root tongue?
>>897499
>Did Hitler base his entire Aryan theory...
WHAT THEORY?
>... on the fact that Iranians and Indians share a common root tongue?
IRANIANS, AND INDIANS, DO NOT ONLY SHARE A COMMON LINGUISTIC ROOT, BUT A COMMON SOCIOCULTURAL ORIGIN, AND A COMMON RACIAL STOCK ALSO; THE IRANIAN PEOPLE, AND THE INDIAN PEOPLE, DESCEND FROM THE ORIGINAL ARYANS.
Is it interesting?
>>897525
Not the Indians, they were already there when the Aryans invaded and took over Hindustan. Indians are separate from Iranians/Aryans.
How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore
And a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot
In the Caribbean by Providence, impoverished, in squalor
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
He doesn't.
Fuck Hamilton.
>>896964
He was a piece of shit, exactly as you'd expect, and Bill Burrs great great grandpa was right to shoot him.
Seriously. Fuck that guy.
>>896964
opportunity
tenacity
luck
intelligence
networking
and always learning more, the man read like you would not believe. He also kept a very gentlemanly aura about how he conducted himself both in and out of public. Alexander Hamilton also did no like violence and suffered the same fate his son did. I still believe he purposely missed his shot.
Did the Axis powers really refer to themselves as the Axis?
>>896758
no
As I have understood it the world "Axis" comes from the Hungarian minister of forgein affairs, who wanted to create an Alliance between Germany, Italy and Hungary.
This would kinda form an axis through Europe.
Not sure if it was used by anyone else though. Probably was since it got so wide spread.
Yes. It was based around an idea that after they joined together, the world would revolve around the Rome-Berlin Axis.
Could it be argued that the fall of the Roman Empire was an apocalyptic event, and that the the early Middles Ages could be considered post-apocalyptic?
Not at all. An apocalyptic event should be fast, unavoidable, devastating. To most people living in the Roman world there was no perceptible difference.
If you're talking about the fall of the West, rural folk exchanged a Romanized tax collector of X origin for a literate Germanic servant...that was probably Romanized...tax collector of X origin. In time these tax collectors were Germans or the subject people themselves.
Bandits plagued the roads for a long while, but then again bandits had plagued the roads during the dozens of Roman civil wars and upheavals, especially during the Crisis of the Third Century.
Roads themselves got shittier and transport more difficult, yeah, but that's hardly apocalyptic. Most social and civil institutions were preserved by the Germans because it made governance and taxation easier.
If you're talking about the fall of the East around AD 650, yeah, that was pretty shocking and cataclysmic, but again, people adapted and the quality of life everywhere was about the same. It improved in the Levant, Egypt, and Africa (religious tolerance) and worsened around the coasts of Anatolia and Greece (Muslim piracy).
>>896740
People adapted to the black plague.
>>896740
No
For the average joe there wasn't some big /HAPPENING/ and then Rome fell down like the Twin Towers
Life went on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA52uNzx7Y4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJed5OiM_4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEzifwSzNDg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6EbatvP9f4
What if Siege of Constantinople (1453) failed? Would Bizantine Empire recover entire Anatolia?
>>896336
No.
No, they would have most likely simply have been conquered later. There really was no chance for them to ever regain their glory.
>>896336
They'd be completely surrounded by the enemy, half starving, and with most of their defenders dead.
Remind me again - What did this agglomeration refer to itself as?
Heiliges römisches Reich deutscher Nation
The Central Unstable Confederation of Krautland
KEK
>>896282
The great autistic german circlejerk
Why did the Western Roman Empire collapse but not the Eastern Roman Empire?
>>896077
East was more stable, wealthier and easier to defend.
I personally have the opinion that because it didn't have Rome and was less well known, it was sort of less of a target for migrating tribes, to an extent. This took some of the heat off it.
You could also argue that the East ruled former empires while the west mostly ruled former tribes people, though centuries of Romanisation had its effect, they quickly balkanised during strife.
t. ERE
>>896077
The Silk Road made it more wealthy and more Stable
Whose bust is on this album cover?
alexander
S E K K O
B O Y S
helios
Why do people refuse to acknowledge Ayn Rand as a serious philosopher?
Because she isn't one.
/thread
>>895473
Because she doesn't have cohesive philosophy, and its a rip off of other philosophies?
aggregate writers have no genius of their own.
What distinguishes a pseudo-intellectual from a true intellectual?
one is pretending to be the other
what kind of answer did you think you'd get?
>>895482
Psuedo-intellectuals are driven to show other people that they are right.
Intellectuals are driven to show themselves they are wrong.
Its a trick question, both are usually garbage. Same thing for people that take iq seriously.
>10,000 BC
>Still being hunter-gatherers instead of settling and utilizing agriculture
>>895458
>tfw Atlanteans already had computers, canned foods, steam engines, and robots while the Egyptians were still figuring out agriculture.
>1000 AD
>not having mastery of interstellar travel
>>895458
>1493 AD
>not using motorboats to cross atlantic
christopher columballs doesn't know shit
"ex nihilo nihil fit"
WHY?
If there's nothing (not even natural laws like causality or conservation of mass)
what would prevent something from just appearing?
Is there anything except our apish intuitions that tells us that "from nothing nothing comes", just because we don't see it happen in our daily lives?
>>895031
Ask /sci/ about quantum fluctuation.
>>895049
I don't see how that relates to what I asked though. In this hypothetical nothing, there'd be no quantum mechanics, or anything else operating at all. Or at least thats what the religious argue to then posit a prime mover thingy. I'm asking why that would be needed.
>>895031
there never was nothing.
nothing is just a figure of speech.
How come the Irish Famine is not considered a deliberate genocide today?
Facts:
-The vast majority of Irish people were forced to live in the poorest quarter of the island
-Discriminatory laws on Catholic inheritance meant that any owned land had to be subdivided among heirs, in practice this lead to the majority of the population having a plot of land measuring several square meters on which they had to grow their food for a year. Other laws prevented from going to school, speaking their own language, buying property or working in a government job.
-In this wet north atlantic climate the only crop that could produce enough calories to keep people alive under these conditions was the potato, and summer was known as the "hungry months" where people had inevitably run out of food and tried to somehow survive until the next harvest, a situation created entirely by the British government.
-The rest of Ireland was used to grow food for England, owned by absentee English landlords and worked by Irish serfs
-The only tangible effort the British government made to alleviate the famine was to set up workhouses which functioned the same as nazi concentration camps, with rampant disease carrying off the whole population who would be buried in a mass grave, before being restocked with new victims
-Related to this was the board of "public works" where people would engage in pointless hard labour for 14 hours a day such as breaking stones or building roads to nowhere, using the money they earned to buy a little bit of food which was not enough to sustain them calorically for this task, only getting maybe 10% of what they actually needed. People dropped like flies and were instantly replaced with other desperate people.
-Protestant zealots would set up soup kitchens but only give them food if they converted right there
-Most damning of all: the British government continued to export food under armed guard throughout the entirety of the famine as millions starved to death
>>895029
no one sat down in cabinet and thought "how can we kill all of the irish?". and if they did, some half arsed, convuluted plan that relies entirely on an unforeseen fungal blight seems unrealistic, when you have billions of acres of land overseas you can ship them to or rifles you can shoot them with.
the irish catholics were discriminated against, sure, but the famine was an unfortunate coincedence of events which all came together, not a deliberate plan to kill the irish.
besides, ireland was heavily overpopulated. if the irish catholics (note plenty became protestants and mysteriously became ebil english landlords through the process of nationalistic retcon) had had primogeniture, what would have happened to all the following sons and daughters? you would have had latifundia instead of minifundia and a large class of poor servants making do with growing their own potatoes rather than a large class of poor smallholders making do with growing their own potatoes.
>>895053
>no one sat down in cabinet and thought "how can we kill all of the irish?
No but DID say "let them all die and dont help"
>>895072
the government were free marketeers (kind of like now), and that's the how the free market works, anon. the invisible hand giveth and the invisible hand taketh away. what are mere irish lives before the pure rationality that is the invisible hand?
When did combat musicians and colour bearers become a thing on the battlefield and when did they stop?
>>894577
Renaissance. Reached their peak in Crimean war
>>894577
>1805
why is that eagle bearing a Tricolor instead of the 1804 pattern standard?
>>894577
Since antiquity, though medieval Europe was less fond of them than other cultures.