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Ramses had his people build four identical colossal statues of him all placed NEXT TO EACH OTHER.
Literally, how is it even possible to be that fucking narcissistic and egotistical?
People were so fucking stupid back then.
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>>831826
Ancient Egyptian's made their sculptures in a path, look at it linerally and it makes sense
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They wanted their names to be known throughout the land and into the afterlife.
And here we are 3500 years later shitposting about him.
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>>831826
>People were stupid back then
>Judging a culture's concepts based on your beliefs
>You're stupid and egotistical
>The pot calling the ancient pottery black
Get the fuck out of here .
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Romans had such amazing names:
Septimius
Severus
Julius
Augustus
Marcus
Commodus
Aurelius
Clodius
Albinus
Flavius
Gaius
My wife is going to have a son in September, would it be too cringey to name him after one of these?
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call him gaius so his friends can call him gay like his dad
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>everything ends in -us
garbage
at least greek names had variation
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First one and the last three are a no go, the rest seem alright. Like the idea, haven't had a kid but if I did I'd look into roman names
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Is this shit real? When was this ever used? 2016-03-14 03:52:45 Post No.831415
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Is this shit real? When was this ever used?
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How can this have been useful in any possible way.
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>>831415
Here is a good discussion on this point OP
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=decorative+plate+armor
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>>831415
That specific helm is an SCA baton combat helm, but that said, grotesques of both ornate and practical forms have existed throughout history.
Obviously, the more ornate ones were purely for parade or tournament, but there are some that made it to battle.
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What did Jesus look like?
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Neither of those picture. Look at Shroud of Turin. There is some doubt about it being authentic or not (the date is wrong but some people say that it cant be dated because of fire damage), but most people agree that it does a good job of showing how Jesus looked and that is how probably he should traditionally be drawn.
The real question is......how did Mary look? There is no such shroud for her, However, I would go with the Tilma of Guadeloupe. Since Jesus is the son of Mary, we can also assume he looked like a male version of her.
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We may never know what jesus actually looked like, but he sure as hell wasn't white
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>>830833
Except there she looks ethnically Mestizo.
What is the greatest empire in human history and why is it the Roman Empire?
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>>830507
That would be the British Empire.
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>>830518
Shut your mouth
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Common law thread
Post interesting precedent setting cases.
In Canada, Hunt v Sutton 2001;
tl;dr:
Hunt worked for Suttin inc. Suttin inc. hosted a christmas party which served alcohol. Hunt got drunk as fuck, left and went to a pub, left the pub, and drove home but got in a car accident and was maimed.
Hunt sued her eployer, Sutton, for allowing her to leave in such an inebriated state. The Court found the employer to be 25% liable, and the bar to be 25% liable.
This set the precedent that employers hosting parties that involve alcohol need to provide or ensure safe transportation for their employees home. It also set the precedent which can hold bars and restaurants liable if they knowingly let somebody drive home drunk.
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>>830314
Remember when personal responsibility was a thing? I'm not sure how this would play out in Australia, but 25% seems fairly high. I can't see why, notwithstanding her inebriated state, her choosing to drive wasn't the last causal link in the chain to the accident.
The NSW Civil Liability Act has provisions for obvious risks but iirc they mostly pertain to dangerous sports; but the analogy can and should be drawn imo.
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>>830416
>Remember when personal responsibility was a thing?
The overall effect of this precedent has a societal good. Sure employers could host events, let their staff drive home drunk and not give a fuck. But with the added liability it encourages employers to provide taxis for their staff, or make sure everybody can use public transit. Ultimately it makes social gatherings safer.
And with bars and restaurants it's the same thing. It encourages bars and restaurants to call cabs for their patrons if they are unfit to drive, or make sure they have another way home. Sure there's the "muh personal liability!"fags, but the overall purpose of this precedent is good.
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>The NSW Civil Liability Act
Tips bicorne
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Red pill me on Vikings....between 395AD +
>What they did
>Were they good warriors
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>>829008
white mongols with ships
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They were okay fighters. Most Scandinavian people were "vikings" though. I'm pretty sure you have it in your head they were all vikings and all raiding all the time.
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>>829008
>What they did
They farmed most of the time. When they weren't doing that they were either engaging in long distance trade or piracy
>Were they good warriors
About as good as any other informal military force at the time. The Varangian Guard were likely the best Norse Warriors.
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>God isn't real because bad things happen
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> God is real because the universe needs a first cause
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>something can come from nothing
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>Jesus is just son of God, he isn't God
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Name a single thing he did wrong.
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Lose power.
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>>826812
Get older
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Could you explain the helicopter meme pls?
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Did troop quality in Europe fell after the Roman Empire had fallen? Were there any medieval entity in Europe capable of matching the Roman legion's skill and discipline?
I'm not talking about having a professional army/administration that the empire had but in a hypothetical scenario, would the ancient Romans be capable of taking on medieval European soldiers, regardless if they're a knight/mercenary etc.?
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>>825356
Obviously Roman legions would be able to take on medieval knights. It's not like knights had guns or anything.
>inb4 handcannons
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>>825356
mm
iirc Romans had a problem dealing with heavy cavalry
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high medieval knights would crush romans with superior technology. the middle ages saw many mercenaries who were masters of their craft.
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What went wrong?
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>>825327
> building in a desert
I don't know.
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>>825327
An army made up mostly of levied goatherders from various vassal state
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>>825336
That doesn't mean anything you imbecile. Egypt was in a desert, and Egypt most certainly WUZ
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Why did the Japanese fear Christanity so much and repressed it as a foreign religion, when Buddhism and Taoism are also foreign religions but didn't get the same treatment?
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>>816012
Christianity was too weird for them.
Also, I can imagine Christianity would clash with Shintoism. Meanwhile, other eastern religions would just get meshed together.
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>>816027
>too weird for the nips
now THAT is impressive
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Italy in the World Wars 2016-03-05 17:42:10 Post No.790090
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Were the Italians ever actually competent on the battlefield? Their history seems to be a chronicle of both immense luck and immense failure.
>lose their first war of independence against fucking Austria
>france and prussia bail them out in their next two
>jump into WWI against their allies
>entire national war effort of Italy utterly fails to break Austria's line for 3 years even though Austria is fighting on two other larger fronts
>at one point gets rekt so hard by Austro-German forces that France and Britain have to rush troops and supplies to shore them up
>jumps into WWII
>gets rekt by the French and is saved by Germany's victory
>gets rekt in North Africa by the British
>gets rekt by the Anglo-Americans in Italy itself
>switches sides
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Italy was a juryrigged nation. It's people had little in common, spoke different languages and had no reason to work together.
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WE WUZ ROMANS
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>>790128
They really are the niggers of Europe.
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What it your position on capital punishment? Should it be banned? What is best method?
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>>866716
>respecting right to life of people that don't respect others
Also why this light cavalaryman on OP pic wears armour on arms instead of legs? Aren't they more vulnerable since he is higher?
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>>866716
Fuck your topic that nigger has no leg armor as cavalry what the fuck
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>>866861
kek there could have been a shortage.
That or he wants to be faster on his horse or even in foot on foot combat once his steed is spooked to the ground.
How did redlining come into effect?
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When you have a post civil rights, pre credit score economy that still had alot of racial discrimination issues in a white concentrated financial institutions
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>>866697
>You should live in a shitty neighborhood or you're racist
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>>866735
Not OP but normally what happens is a relatively well off black family moves into a good white neighborhood, the whites freak out and run for their lives, property value plummets, hood niggers move in, and decent black families move out
Rinse & repeat
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