How did Russia manage to turn from a mongol-occupied subhuman steppe into a civilized European society with God-tier culture, music and literature then go back into a totalitarian subhuman steppe again?
>>809574
Russian history have been like Kiev kingdom --> Mongol --> Angry guy --> Giant that likes boats --> Germans and Jews (Aka communism) -->Vodka Stalin --> Cyka blyat ((Yelled into bad microphones))
They imported aristocracy from the western countries. That's probably why they were the last to bloom from it.
However, they also imported the Revolution. And it hit them hardest. That counter-enlightenment (that's what it was, romanticism of the plebs) force brought them to totalitarian communism and before repelling to the reactionary strong man we see today.
>>809587
>>809593
Pretty much. Russians eventually got tired of long-running tsarist rule so they put forward communism as something fresh, new and promising, while eliminating old russian spirit and creating a new communist Russian spirit in it's place, and eventually as decades passed the ideas that made-up communism got stale in the eyes of russians, they'd start losing faith in it, so they allowed it to collapse as well. During it's years of existence this communist spirit would start to rot and decompose, and during the last few decades of it's life communist rule in Russia acted as a bubble that contained sealed various puss and maggotry inside, and eventually as this bubble popped all the puss and maggots got freed in the form of "new russians" and oligarchs. This short decade of post-communist Russia is known as Yeltsin's Russia. Russians like to promote Putin as the savior of Russia after Yeltsin's years, unaware of the truth that Putin himself is one of those 90's maggots, that got to power and as such has managed to put himself and all of his buddies in golden chairs all the while utilizing a mix of pre-communist and communist rhetoric to manipulate the casual russian mass.
So in a tl;dr - hoping something better happens, things just gets worse. Expect post-Putin Russia to be an even worse shithole than it is now.
French student here, here is how we set the boundaries of the different eras in History. What are the one you study in your country/you believe are the most accurate?
>>809534
>a really long time ago
>a long time ago
>after when a meme Italian accidentally bumped into some islands
>after le Revolution
Abysmal
In Britain eras were very much defined by the sitting monarch or dynasty for much of history, though things become blurrier after the death of Queen Victoria
There most well defined periods have to be:
Tudor Period: 1485–1603
Stuart Period: 1603–1714
Georgian Era: 1714-1837
Victorian Era: 1837-1901
Honourable mention to the The Interregnum of 1649-1660 which briefly disrupted the Stuart Period
Danish here.
We usually put it like this:
Pre 476: Antiquity
476-1066: Dark ages/Early medieval/Viking age
1066-1453: Middle ages (the transition from middle age to renaissance is usually put in 1453 with fall of constantinoble and end of hundred years' war, but 1492 is also sometimes used)
1453-late 1700's: Early modern/renaissance (Enlightenment is usually covered in other studies than history)
Late 1700's - 1871: Age of revolutions, romanticism, birth of the nation state
1871-1914: Communism, labour movements and early modernism
1914-1989: Modern world
1989: late-modernity
Is deism the most logical position to take if one believes in God?
No, because that still doesn't explain how you go from a proposition like "The universe had a beginning/cause" (this proposition is in itself very dubious, but whatever) to "this cause must possess a conscious will"
>>809531
>if one believes in God
>>809542
Setting your conclusion in advance is not philosophy. That's bullshit
Were there Western terrorists in
1) the 17th century
2) the 18th century
3) the 19th century
?
/pol/tards need not reply.
>>809186
define terrorist, because for example poland was partitioned in late 18th and that partisans were 'terrorist' for germans and russians.
>>809186
Well western governments didn't just invent all those anarchist bombings. Then in the 20th century you had Baader-Meinhoff and all those other USSR sponsored commie terrorist groups.
>>809228
20th century had a whole bunch of terrorists in Europe in general:
>RAF
>Red Brigades
>ETA
>IRA
>EOKA-B
>OUN, arguably
Are Anglos or "The eternal Anglo" to /his/ as Jews are to /pol/?
BANE?
No, because the Anglos literally did rule the world . the Jews have never actually done so.
>>808575
For you
>muh feeling
>>808550
Why do you dumb faggots prattle on about art when you clearly don't even understand the basic, underlying concept?
>>808550
/his/ only knows of three movements
>>808561
Fuck off Kyle
Dear /his/
I just read I, Claudius and found it to be the best thing I've ever read. What are the best nonfiction books that are about the time in I, Claudius (Augustus - Caligula)
>>808388
check out the Spartacus novelization, you'll probably like it.
>>808388
The Bible
What does it mean to 'exist'?
What is the difference between "being" as a noun and "being" as a verb?
>>808272
from an epistemological standpoint, a 'being' is a physical entity.
>>808272
I'm not trying to be funny, but you will get an extremely accurate and comprehensive answer to that question by looking up 'being' in a dictionary.
I believe being dead is not worse than being alive.
What's wrong with my belief system?
>>808144
depends
>What's wrong with my belief system?
You've reduced it down to a single sentence with no support or argumentation that is vague enough to allow for many differing interpretations that can all contradict one another.
>>808164
So essentially no worse than any other religion based belief?
Contradict me
Was he history's first feminist?
http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/07/feds-paid-709000-to-academic-who-studies-how-glaciers-are-sexist/
lol who cares?
>>808102
No.
many hunter-gatherer tribes were egalitarian so I guess they were 'feminists' in the best possible sense
Why is Cleopatra VII Philopator so famous?
Because of the dramatic, and historically important events of the Roman civil war.
Also, bitches.
>>808048
Because Shakespeare, you simp.
>>808048
She was the only Egyptian that wasn't black
Is impressively rapid industrialization thanks to Stalin and the Soviet system a meme?
>>807893
No but Stalin being a paranoid murdering psychopath is
>>807901
Actually this
>>807901
he was a good boy who dindu nuffin
holomodor? nice propaganda bourgeois swine!
>>>/leftypol/
Were there any people persecuted for witchcraft that were actually attempting to practice it?
>>807888
Of course.
Most of them, actually.
>>807888
Depending on what you mean by witchcraft. In those days, sneezing the wrong would be met with cries of witchery.
Puritans were no fun at all.
If the 3rd Reich had succeeded, would it have been more of a "New Rome" than America is/was?
not OP but bumping
germany today is europe's powerhouse. give them hegemony over the rest of europe, and given their advances in rocket development and eventual competition with USA and Russia, and they would have gotten to the moon sooner. we'd probably be 30 years ahead in the future overall.
>>807816
Germany today wouldn't be contending with two hostile superpowers the way a surviving Third Reich would be.
>>807816
>germany today is europe's powerhouse
ebin meme
Find a more based man than Monsieur Voltaire
>Millionaire
>Finest playwright of his time
>European Monarchs idolized him
>His people love him
>BTFO the Church
>BTFO Louis XVI
>BTFO Rousseau.
>holy
>>807766
Voltaire is an over rated hack, literally nothing he said was clever or intelligent. Hes a pretentious blowhard faggot and only an idiot would like him
>>807774
This. He was the Sam Harris of his century.