Hero or terrorist? Why?
Osama bin Laden was a hero to many people. He was also a terrorist. You're a faggot.
>>836070
I'm asking for your opinion, geez anon.
>>836061
hero he wanted black Americans to get out of white america and make their our nation.
What if the East had been the one to collapse in 476 and the West remained intact? How do you guys think they would deal with the challenges that had plagued the East after the West fell? The Islamic caliphates, the Slavic and Turkish migrations, the Crusades, a Western emperor trying to retake the lost provinces à la Justinian, etc.?
There were many instances of enemy armies brushing aside Roman armies and getting right up to Constantinople and turning back upon seeing the walls, then the imperial forces would, usually, get their land back after the enemy retreated. Neither Rome nor Milan or Ravenna were anywhere near as well defended as Connie. If any enemies could break through the armies and navies defending Italy, they could probably take those cities with relative ease, and the Empire might well end in the 600s. It was the location of the capital that held the Eastern Empire together as long as it did, even if they built huge Theodosian-like walls around any of the possible capitais, I can't see a Western Empire lasting anywhere near as long as the Eastern did.
>>843675
So the western half had more development to make it more profitable
The Germanic peoples who migrated were either repelled or successfully assimilated into the western half also leading to the commanders starting less conflicts that drain the empires resources.
Is this what happens because these are a few of the ways I can think that the western half had to have happen in order for them to survive
>>843675
It depends on how the west stayed intact, did they repulse the Germans and push them back out of their borders or did they properly incorporate them into the Empire? If the former, I think that the Roman Empire falls to the Arabs, like you said one of the main reasons the ERE survived as long as it did was because of Constantinople, since no equivalent exists in the West, with out a really military, it's entirely likely that the Arabs or some other migrant group like the Avars or Bulgars would have just run over the West. However in the case of the latter, where Rome better intergrates migrating Germans and German kingdoms into the Empire they might have a chance, since the Germanic militaries would give them the strength to resist against foreign invaders, though how long such a situation would last is debatable.
>>843730
like I said in the post above maybe the romans did more to improve Gaul and Iberia so they yielded more benefit to the empire allowing them to better repulse invasion
maybe they increase the defenses in Africa did more to improve the navy in the Mediterranean to better control trade and fight back against the Saracens
Why didn't the Americans incorporate native Americans into the revolutionary war as much as the British did?
Because one of the things the colonists were mad about was that the British didn't allow them to spread further into the frontier aka native territory.
Why the fuck would the natives fight for people actively trying to take their land? This is like asking why Hezbollah doesn't fight for Israel. The British promised the injuns if they won, they would keep the colonists from spreading west.
>>843054
*Hamas not Hezbollah Fugg
>>843054
>Trusting Anglo promises
Oh God,
Tell me /his/, how do the allies win the war earlier ?
attack germs in 1939 when they invade poland
go to war to defend czechen slow-akia
Well this is a funny thread. All the time it is hurr durr how does Germany win. And every time the answers are the same, that it would require huge, fundamental changes in history/German politics/industry/strategy/and the like. And rightly so, seeing as they were outmatched and picked a fight against three superpowers etc.
Also threads like those are pure cancer.
But with the allies it's a cancer less malignant... if only for the novelty value.
Why was the Japanese population so fucking huge during the Edo period, even though Japan isn't very fertile or has any abundance of farming space, much less pasture land?
Didn't the entire nobility live in Edo? Must've been good for business.
Japan grew white a bit of rice. In addition to that, everyone basically lives near the coasts, which is teeming with seafood of course. Furthermore, they probably were able to import a lot of food because, again, very little far inland areas to worry about shipping food to.
>>841566
>white
quite*
Is it true that he was only successful because he fought against weak nations?
He was successful because the French Republic managed to be worse than the monarchy
>>841418
Holy fuck, no. This best be bait. He took on all of Europe.
>Austrian Empire
>Russia
>Prussia
>the UK
>every other goddamn state in Europe
>weak
Is this a joke?
What stop European Powers from occupying this land and slaughtered all of its native inhabitants ? I mean fuck the moral and international law.
Can they ?
>>841093
Africa is fucking big
why waste time killing billions of people for little to no reason
>>841114
>for little to no reason
For living space, farming lands, resources, lot of reasons.
I dont know if this is the right category but here I Go, Can someone tell me about this? (Imagen with reference) I want to get in, I work in a medical civil association, im atheist, Im AN investigator into medicine, I feel free and i would like to meet with people like this. Im really identificated with Mason's philosophy, here is some mason who can help me please ? now I know what I must to do with myself while im alive
>>840968
Sorry bro. Can't be a Mason if you're an athiest. Nor would you really want to be, since it's mostly about your faith in God.
>>840968
masons are a fraternity (boy's club) with pseudo-religious themes mixed with some pagan ritual for spoopyness
ultimately it is another collection plate, though
>>840968
Why do you say that you're an atheist in a way that you seem to think that its one of the most important requirements to be admitted?
Yo what's the best philosophy
All of them at once, reasoned out over the course of eternity as it becomes temporal, of course.
>>840934
Stoicism.
Cynicism, people are inherently self interested faggots.
Why is spain so shitty now when at one point it was a european superpower?
>>840718
They were late to the party when it came to the industrial revolution. spent to much energy trying to hang onto colonies. but don't listen to me, I don't know what I'm talking about
>>840718
The years of fascism certainly didn't help.
Were any of them decent politicians in their own right, or were they just all generic Hitler clones?
>>840406
Who is the one on the right?
>>840406
You could actually call Hitler a Mussolini clone. While not strictly accurate, he was on the scene before Hitler was.
>>840406
The third one from the right looks like a pretty generic Hitler clone desu.
Can we have a discussion about Dante's inferno? How it related to Plato, Aristotle, Genesis, Exodus, Job, Augustine and Boethius?
>>840226
His biggest influence was obviously Diogenes
If it's cold that's tormenting Satan and the cold is generated by Satan's wings, why doesn't Satan just stop flapping his wings?
>Christian fanfiction
lol
the poems are nice tho
Why are the contributions of America to WWII so drastically over-stated in history textbooks?
It seems like there are a large contingent of the population who think Germany was on the verge of winning the war until America joined and pushed them back.
>>840082
Probably because you live in the United States.
>>840082
Because from the western front things actually looked grim and difficult for the Allies before D-Day. Of course the Soviet's, despite difficulties, had been mostly successful for at least a year.
U.S involvement in Europe is mainly important for balancing power against the Soviet Union. It's very likely the Soviets would have declared control over all Nazi occupied lands, which would have been most of Europe without U.S involvement.
I'm not saying that resistance groups combined with British support wouldn't have retaken parts of the continent before the fall of Germany but I think our post war world would look very different without strong U.S involvement.
In other words U.S involvement is considered important because it ensured the liberation of western European nations.
There's some truth to these claims. But remember that it's the winners who write history. Or at least, it's the winners who omit the historic information they don't like.
It happens in any system - from the most totalitarian to the most free and open democratic one. In democratic systems people can find some historic memories to be unpleasant and vote for their representatives who would omit these memories from history lessons.
If there was contact between the Old World and the New World before 1492 how come smallpox was never transmitted from these encounters, or if it was why didn't it create a pandemic like it did after the Spanish arrived?
because when the vikings and other europeans and asians came they didnt insist on fucking everything that walked
Smallpox is a post revision theory. They dont want to hurt their descendants' feelings. Those europeans were literal mass murderers. So instead they said they introduced a small disease, that is tthe blemish of their small shame for being so small.
>>840362
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Fuck Yes.
Are you a dog or God?
>>839476
I have social anxiety.
>>839476
Im just weird bro
Im not a barbarian
Im not omnipotent
I just really like being alone
The reason why Aristotle said this is because he defined man as a social being, right?