What would have happened if dinosaurs never went extinct?
Would humans still have become the dominant species or would we have domesticated them and used them for cockfights and such?
My guess is that mammals wouldn't have had the huge opportunity for explosive evolution that they did because most of their competitors wouldn't die out. A big ecological niche was taken up by dinosaurs.
This would mean humans never coming around or at least taking a lot longer.
So instead of Beefsteak, now i could chose Dinosteak in restaurant's menu ?
humans would live in fortified islands, awsum
How did exceptionally violent and bloodthirsty cultures, like Assyria and the Aztecs, successfully exist for any amount of time? Their historical behavior seems so overtly villainous.
>>824841
Ask that to their faces, see what happens.
>>824841
>these guys were really mean and evil! how did they succeed if superheroes exist to stop these evil ppl?
literally fuck off to reddit. no actually fuck off back to minecraft youtubers. you mental 9 year old
>Falling for Hittie propaganda
How retarded is this guy?
>Jesus actually wasn't peaceful, otherwise he wouldn't be crucified. Crucifixion was only reserved for violent criminals, so THE GOSPELS ARE A LIE!
>But how do you know he was crucified?
>Well, the Gospels say so :DDDD
>>824420
Dunno, man. I heard he flipped a table once. Sounds pretty violent to me. Wouldn't want him in my neighbor.
>>824420
>How retarded is this guy?
He's Muslim, for one. And not a very good one, either.
>>824429
Don't forget he followed it up with whipping people for practice their religion in their temple. Clearly a violent person whose also emotionally unstable.
How true is the claim that France is useless at war? is it true that they have never won a war and have always been bailed out by America throughout history?
>>824371
If not murica then england,
>mfw crusades took place purely because france got its asshole pushed in by shit skins
>>824371
It's all a meme France has often ranked above the British when it comes to war.
What single thing do you most admire about another country that doesn't often get said?
I admire most about Germany their impeccable military history throughout all of time ever since there were German states. From the time of Frederick the Great to the achievements of the nation during WW2 (in which the gigantic leviathan nations of the Soviet Union AND the United States AS WELL AS effectively every other nation in Europe had to pile on top of them to defeat them), their military record is, without a doubt, the absolute greatest in human history.
I never see Germany mentioned in discussions of military records however, which is odd.
>>824338
Germany is overrated
Iran produces great fruits and nuts; pistachios, apricots, walnuts, etc.
>>824357
Actually Germany is severely underrated seeing how mainstream education downplays their progress and shames them for it.
What exactly is the holy spirit supposed to be, and what is its role beyond being a third of God? I've got a decent understanding behind the father and the son, but the details on the ghost still escape me.
>>824336
its the god part inside of your heart.
t. universalist faggot
The Holy Spirit is represented by a dove, which in turn is a symbol of Asherah, the Hebrew goddess-wife of Yahweh
The Hebrew name for the Holy Spirit is "Ruach ha-Qadesh", "Qadesh" is an epithet for the mother-goddess Queen of Heaven Asherah and she was worshiped as "Qetesh" by the Egyptians
The Trinity originally represented the family unit, Father, Mother, and Child
Goddess worship was repressed however as Asherah's cult was seen as too powerful by the priests of Yahweh, who wanted to emphasize his power by making him the only true god, all other deities being demons in actuality so Asherah became Ashtoreth a lower demon in service to the fallen one
Monotheism destroys the rich mythology of the great pantheon of gods who could represent unique individual archetypes, rather than just one bland god that's suppose to represent everything and thus at the same time nothing in particular
Reconnect with the Goddess and know her true name and identity
>>824513
>The Holy Spirit is represented by a dove, which in turn is a symbol of Asherah, the Hebrew goddess-wife of Yahweh
Wah, so now Yahweh is fucking himself?
>rekt all values of his time
>creates new values on their ashes, that dominate the world to this day
>the birth pangs of these new values is immense bloodshed, starting with him
Maximum Ubermensch. Prove me wrong.
Jesus didn't "create" any new value, he is the Value himself who made flesh.
prove what wrong?
we all know jesus, fact or fiction, changed the world's morals/ideas, that still last today and caused the bloody crusades.
>>824245
Crusades were geopolitics desu
Why are people so afraid of nihilism?
The world has no objective meaning or purpose. I think that's a fact
But it doesnt mean we should just end it or that we can't have our own meaning and purpose however subjective they are
I think it is a very empowering way of thinking not something that leads to depression or suicide
Are people so weak that they dont have the will to live without a higher purpose?
well, its tricky. Its not that nihilism is bad, its sorta the opposite. someone will get depressed, believe the world has no meaning, accept nihilism and then kill themselves.
or do whatever the fuck they like.
either way, it ends with the word becoming unliked, especially upon the religious who entire live's revolve around their being a point.
>>824131
>Why are people so afraid of nihilism?
Because of the general perception that a nihilist will not be inhibited by the kind of moral/spiritual concerns that keep most people from doing awful shit.
>>824131
Rin is fucking trash
Why aren't we having posh-as-fuck gladiator fights in a colosseum like the romans did?
I don't think we quite cut how decadent we are in this day and age with TV shows and porn when we could be having some gladiators go at eachother.
I feel despair everytime I think about not having seen some mock gladiator sea battles.
why don´t you watch some gay pron
I can draw some furry porn for you if you want.
We do.
Rugby or hand-egg are about as close to the push of early and pre-gunpowder warfare as we can have.
I do predict that in the next ten to fifteen years, drone-wars will begin to be a popular sport. Some moron like Trump or McMahon will buy a few hundred km^2 of land in the Mojave desert or somewhere in Utah, and then inform nerds of the world that if they submit armies of drones, conforming to certain rules (each drone has to weigh in at under 50 kg, total army has to be under ten tons, no chemical explosives or propellants, things like that), they can just have at each other. Bare minimum rules, and no humans allowed on the field of battle.
This is the closest to OP that we'll get, unless Mad Max times happen, then who the hell knows?
>VEE VAS KINGS UND SCHEISSE
Why do Yuros think their "civilization" is so great when, for all but the past few hundred years, it was seen by the rest of the world as a violent backwater filled with retards?
>inb4 Rome
Charlemagne's reign was pretty glorious desu senpai
>>823819
This. If we're discounting Rome, then Europe had already surpassed the world by the Frankish empire.
>>823797
because in those past few hundred years it became so glorious??
Why were medieval Islamic states so unstable?
The Caliphates were at least using provincial systems which from modern perspective should be more advanced than feudal system in Europe since provincial titles weren't theoretically supposed to be inheritable. Yet the Arabs made it de-facto inheritable with far more political struggles than other regions.
Like in Al-Andalus there were literally 50 years of balkanization every 100 years, and even within the 100 years's 75% of the time the taifa governors didn't give much shit towards the central Cordoba caliph.
Not to mention the modern states' structures and the modern-ish Chinese bureaucracy, even the contemporary European feudal states seemingly had less frequent power struggle and succession crisis. literally wtf had they done?
Should've posted this tho
>>823764
1) MUH FEUDAL RIGHTS being a very legal justification for not obeying the king's shit.
2) Strong Local Governments like Cities. Which even in European Kingdoms governed theirfuckingselves.
3) An arbiter for interstate struggles in the form of the pope.
4) And you're wrong. You've drank into the Nation-State narrative that appropriated medieval kingdoms of Europe as continuations of current nation states in the region.
Take for example the Kingdom of England and France during the Angevin period. Was it really two separate kingdoms? Furthermore there's >H >R >E that's a warring mess of competing houses. Oh and about that, was the French king of the 900's-1300's even in control of his whole fucking kingdom? Seems his writ doesn't extend to very powerful nobles like Burgundian ones.
Not to mention succession wars are a very common thing in Europe. Hell succession wars even got worse AFTER the medieval ages.
>>823764
As Whickham points, compartimentation of the peninsula is related with the problems of forming unitarian states in Iberia.
Find a flaw.
>>823649
Khmer Rouge
>>823649
Linguistic or political?
Memes aside where I can read more about their raid and battle tactics? Also were French, Irish and Saxon commoners allowed to own weapons or did they only have pitchforks to defend themselves with?
>>823595
Well Carolingians banned commoners from forming Guilds to opose raiders, so its very likely that they were armed.
>>823643
why would they ban it? Were they afraid that the guilds would also oppose them?
I find Byzantine battle tactics fascinating.
So what was up with south america in WW2? I know Mexico and Brazil were the only ones who actually sent soldiers to fight
>Mexican merchant vessel got blown up by the U-Boats and sent their airforce to help out the US in some missions in the Pacific
>Brazil sent soldier in the invasion of Italy
But all the other countries were officially part of the allies, but I thought Argentina and Chile and even Brazil were fascist at the time
Most were just american puppets.
Countries like Chile boomed in the war for the mutch needed metals which their land is rich with.
Here in Brazil it was a Populist Dictatorship with light fascist tendencies. The nearest thing that we had to fascism, Integralism, was used indirectly by Vargas to get into power and once he got it he outlawed the group.
>>823288
>South America
>Mexico
Did you mean Latin America? The meme would be complete if you're an American.
Uruguay stayed neutral for the beginning of the conflict, witnessing the Battle of the River Plate right next to it's capital. Many Anglo-Uruguayan soldiers served in WW2, and soldiers of both sides of the conflict that either came to Uruguay after the war or were already living here before can be found resting at the British Cementery in Montevideo.
Uruguay broke ties with Nazi Germany in early 42 and would later go on to be a founding member of the UN.
Pic is Spitfire Pilot's grave, taken by yours truly
Per Ardua ad Astra
ITT: we list our favourite educational YouTube accounts (history or otherwise)
some of mine
>>823300
>smarter everyday
>putting bible verses at the end of videos
Fuck that, he's a creepy fucker.
>>823300
>Vox
>Crash Course
no hardcore history
no forgotten weapons
c'mon mang.