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how different would the middle east be if islam never touched it at all? would it have been a beacon of progressiveness and civilisation? or was it doomed for strife no matter what?
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>>876635
That depends on a whole range of factors. Until you've qualified those it doesn't make much sense to discuss it
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we cannot possibly know
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Itd be the same. Look at the economy of south america, africa, asia
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Tell me about the Roman occupation of Greece (why do they wear the tunics? etc.)
How did they acquire Greece? Everything I've read just simply states that they did so in 146 BC with little detail.
Was Greece an autonomous province because of how much the Romans had a hard-on for Hellenic culture?
How many wars between the two was there?
Both Greece and Rome were polytheistic. Were Greece still allowed to worship their own gods since they were pretty much the same as the Romans.
Roman architecture is obviously influenced by the Greeks. Was it different before the Roman occupation of Greece?
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>>876612
There were a series of wars between Rome and Macedon, some small states asked for Roman protection which is how they got involved in Greece. The Athenians and others also rebelled and they were put down by Sulla which I think is the last time the Greeks really tried to stop Roman domination.
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>>876628
If I'm not mistaken wasn't Macedon seperate to Greece? I know that after Alexander died mainland Greece was carved up into a bunch of city states, with Macedon becoming it's own kingdom.
Also didn't the Greeks support Carthage in one of the Punic wars?
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>>876632
Macedon was separate but it was also the hegemon in Greece. Once Rome eventually defeated it the Romans naturally began to be the hegemon in Greece and then absorbed the various states within it over a century.
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Things You Need To Do In Order To Make Islam Acceptable to Europeans
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Pork is halal.
Alcohol is halal.
Women wearing whatever the fuck they want and showing their hair/skin without getting beaten/assaulted/harassed/raped for it is halal.
Pre-marital sex is halal.
Birth control for women is halal.
Neutral divorce that's not slanted in favor of the man is halal.
Abortion is halal.
Free literature of all ranges and genres from political to erotic to fantasy to pornographic is halal. No sorcery bs.
Pictures of humans (paintings, drawings, sculptures, and any other artistic product) and other living things are halal.
All music is halal.
Porn is halal.
Homosexuality is halal.
Not praying and not fasting, not going to the mosque and never going to Mecca is halal.
Not caring or thinking about allah and his prophet mohammed is halal.
Not learning arabic and not being forced to learn arabic is halal.
Leaving islam is halal.
Slaughter of animals the western way is halal.
Western women's rights are halal.
Rape is haram.
Raping an unveiled woman is haram.
Harassing and assaulting an unveiled woman is haram.
Raping, harassing and assaulting a woman is haram.
Forcing people to do something they don't want is haram.
Demanding money in exchange of religious freedom is haram.
Forced marriages are haram.
Unequal inheritance for women is haram.
Demanding the wife be obedient is haram. Disrespecting and/or assaulting her if she doesn't want to submit or obey to a dickhead like you is haram.
Killing people because they want to leave islam is haram.
Killing women because they have pre-marital sex is haram.
Killing, assaulting, harassing or otherwise causing damage to people because they do something unislamic (as islam currently is) is haram.
Holy war is haram.
Suicide bombing is haram.
That's a preliminary list, feel free to add things islam needs to make halal (permitted) and haram (forbidden) in order to fit in with civilized people.
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I'm not even a Muslim but seriously this shit will never work. Islam will never, and doesn't need to bow to secular humanist thought, which is really not much better than it.
Really though, all y'all need Jesus.
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>>876033
Fuck off. It's not like our ancestors died to keep this scum away from us
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>>876033
>Europe was catholic
>Pork was not allowed on fridays
Europeans did not give a shit.
>Women have to wear headcoverings at Church and cover up
Europeans did not give a shit
>Pre-marital sex is a shit
Europeans did not give a shit
>Birth Control is a sin
Europeans did not give a shit.
>ABORTION
Yeah, fuck off.
Face it, any religion was never followed to the T by you guys. You're fucking casuals.
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>write entire essay for politics class on Wealth of Nations
>realize after I submit it that the author's name isn't Alexander Hamilton
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>>875665
>Write entire essay for history class on Sun Tsu
>Realize after I submit that it's not called "The Far of War"
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>write entire essay on North European paganism and rituals uncovered through archeology
>realize after I submit it that I shouldn't have named it "the Gaul Stones"
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>>875881
>"the Gaul Stones"
okay, i giggled
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Tell all you can about Rome, as Republic or Empire
Religon, Politics, Military
All of that good Shit
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They liked gay sex, not as much as the greeks, but they still did it. Also Trajan best emperor and best column.
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>>875662
Trajan was Dank but he ain't got shit on this badASS
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>>875671
I've never heard of this guy before. He's a mother fucking pimp, though.
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Remind me, why this guy was bad again?
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>>875419
He quite literally married a whore.
Then he quite literally married a different whore after that first whore marriage fell apart.
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>>875419
we wasted all of argieland's money on choochoo trains
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>>875429
I have no idea who this person is and I just realized if you had said simply "literally" instead of "quite literally" I would have assumed you were using literally rhetorically.
We really need a new word.
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can someone explain this map?
the way I see things, haplogroup I (I1 & I2) represent the old mesolithic hunter-gatherers of Europe
as we got neolithic haplogroups, these old ones were pushed back
so it makes sense that I is higher in Scandinavia, and it grows less common from there
but why is Bosnia so high in it?
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allow me
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>>874991
during the neolithic revolution, indo-europeans pushed in from the east while meds pushed from the south west, the changes were drastic like the displacement of hunter gatherer native americans
the nuragics, hamangia (balkans) and Cucuteni Trypillian culture remained uncucked as they adopted agriculture rapidly through trade and resisted migrations
then later the nords migrated into Germany and north western europe
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How would I be able to publish a peer reviewed scholarly work without a degree? Would several experts have to review my work or something?
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>>874424
You can't circle jerk unless you're in the circle jerk. That's the way circle jerks operate.
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>>874424
You could probably try but you'd have a hard time and I'm not sure how you'd do it. There used to be a lot of "open" peer-reviewed journals that would allow anyone to publish as long as it was decent enough. But as usual, people in the natural sciences couldn't handle this kind of democracy and in their autistic rage decided to fuck the whole concept of open journals after what's known as the Sokal affair.
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I mean to publish works on history btw
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>6th century
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>7th century
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i don't get it
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>>874328
There's nothing to get about it, that's the joke.
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Anyone here read this book?
It's pretty useful for shutting Muslim apologists and SJWs the fuck up.
Written by a Spaniard so there's some obvious bias there, but for the most part I found it to be a factual look at the atrocities that the Muslims carried out in Iberia, and helps illustrate why the Christian Reconquest was not only tame in comparison, but was well deserved.
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>>874065
So you only use one source to bolster your arguments? Okay kiddo, don't forget to come back and tell us what you thought of Guns, Germs and Steel next
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>>874182
>one
Any source has sources of its own.
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>>874065
>It's pretty useful for shutting Muslim apologists and SJWs the fuck up.
Which means it's probably filled with gross exaggerations and stating things everybody already knew but had already contextualized far better and you just like it because it spoon feeds you shit you already believed were true before you even read it.
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Hey anyone from Ireland or have good knowledge on Irish myths know what this symbol is?
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>>873868
It's a Death Note. "Three" is how long you have to live, not clear if that's in days, weeks, months or years tho.
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>>873899
Have any knowledge to back that up?
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>>873868
It's a 'Gwyndolin shae fugg'
It brings good luck and many possibilities to fuck qt traps.
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I have this idea for the power of ridicule (from satire and grotesque to plain ol' ad hominem)...
Basically my point is that ridiculing an idea, and even a person (which, again, includes insults like "you're an idiot") is an adequate way of accomplishing the following goals:
1. The other party will be discouraged from expressing their ideas in front of you
2. The other party will become ashamed from their ideas
3. You will form a stronger bond with the people who, like you, disagree with the other party
Which in turn is very likely to have the following negative side effects:
1. The other party will hate you and might retaliate or become depressed
2. The other party could feel like a martyr and grow an even stronger bond with their ideas
3. Kindhearted observers may defend the other party and through their sympathy for the person create an illusion for being sympathetic to their ideas as well
Is there any scientific work on the subject? Any papers or something?
Can we ever say that ridiculing or insulting somebody is the "right way to go"? When is it helpful to society to ridicule people? When (if ever) is it helpful for the people being ridiculed?
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>>873841
Didn't read a word of this
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>>873841
I don't disagree, but ridicule can lead to self-betterment.
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Think of a war.
It can be any war.
Got one?
Good.
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You're now in command of the forces of the side that lost.
What would you do to change the outcome of the conflict?
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Who was that Amerindian chief who's name ended in -con?
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>>873737
Use the Jews as cannon fodder instead of sending them to death camps.
Kill Mussolini and install more competent puppets. Sell the Italian and French colonies to the Brits for a non aggression treaty. Lock down Europe. Organize and communicate with Japan. Convince them not to attack the US. Wait until the middle of Spring. Kill the Commies with no distractions and a few million "undesirable" waves. Meet the Japanese advancing from the East, exterminate all Slavs. Split Asia and Africa with the Japs and Brits.
The world is now free to exterminate the last threat to civilization; Islam.
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>Cold War
>give up on the commie dream of a planified
economy on the early stages of the game, establishing an interventionist economy instead
>significantly reduce unit ukeep cost in other soviet sattelites like cuba, DDR, etc, by bringing back 3/4 of all troops stationed in those countries.
>focus on spreading my influence to India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Persia and all of the Middle East instead of spending countless shekels on useless eastern european shitholes
>do whatever to prevent sino soviet split
>invade japan in the 70s
>gorbachev misteriously disappears before he becomes relevant
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Do you guys know any good historical documentarys you can recomend me?
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simon schama history of britain
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Honestly, I know they're regarded as sort of dreary cliches by now, but Ken Burns is the arch-documentarian for a reason. He owns.
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The Greatest Story Never Told
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Yo what's the best saint
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Tomasso Aquino
In my country there's a little town (barely a town, just a bunch of houses on the countryside) that's literally called "St. God". It doesn't get any better than that.
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>>872788
This balding, tree-hugging war-veteran right here.
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