Ok /his/, I have to teach a high school class about the start of the cold war.
I have to prepare the class and everything.
I'm deep in shit with other work that I have to do so I could use your help with inspiration.
What is obligatory to mention, what can I leave out, some suggestions would be great. What approach should I have towards the subject?
If you're still underage b&, you can tell me what you would love to hear about in your class.
Also, I'm in Yurop, just so you know.
Yalta, Potsdam, Marshall Plan and all that comes from those three main events.
>>594805
Yeah, I won't miss those of course.
Talk about the no reason wars fought or the dictatorships installed to maintain influence, this is what the young like to hear
What does Jews think about this man?
>In 1332, King Casimir III the Great (1303–1370) amplified and expanded Bolesław's old charter with the Wiślicki Statute. Under his reign, streams of Jewish immigrants headed east to Poland and Jewish settlements are first mentioned as existing in Lvov (1356), Sandomierz (1367), and Kazimierz near Kraków (1386). Casimir, who according to a legend had a Jewish lover named Esterka from Opoczno was especially friendly to the Jews, and his reign is regarded as an era of great prosperity for Polish Jewry, and was nicknamed by his contemporaries "King of the serfs and Jews." Under penalty of death, he prohibited the kidnapping of Jewish children for the purpose of enforced Christian baptism. He inflicted heavy punishment for the desecration of Jewish cemeteries.
best goy
too bad his nation turned into an antisemitic mob
Poland allowing Jews to form into the middle class was a real economic boost to the nation, particularly after the merger with Lithuania. Jews of the era were typically much more literate than people from the same backgrounds due to their religious requirements of needing to be able to read the Torah. Thus they made pretty good tax collectors, accounts, bankers etc etc. Probably didn't do the perception of them much good among the serfs, but for the actual nation and the economy, big time help.
Given the time period, there wasn't exact a middle class, but in Poland and then Poland-Lithuania, the Jews got to be it.
And then the Russians, Prussians and Austria ganged up on Poland-Lithuania, divided the damn thing up and that was it for the Jews. The Golden era was over. It got pretty damn miserable in Eastern Europe for them after that.
He gets a free Policy every era and has badass cavalry.
So my fucking history teacher just said there was a dark age after the fall of Rome. How do I fucking BTFO him and prove him wrong, he says that until the Caroline Resistance there was a dark age and people on his say it's not true. What can I say to fucking BTFO him and prove him wrong?
Bump
He's an atheist btw guys so can someone (like Constantine who is fucking epic) post some Christian refutations
>>594435
>He's an atheist btw guys so can someone (like Constantine who is fucking epic) post some Christian refutations
Was he a bad man?
Can a roman expert explain the civil war to me please?
>>594402
He was definitely a great man, maybe the greatest(except Caesar of course, blessings be upon him). It's hard to say if he was bad, that comes down to sensibilities, he was certainly pro-senate/patricians
>>594419
He butchered so many people though. Great men don't kill educated aristocrats, do they?
>>594430
Sure they do. Ethics and greatness are not related.
Why did Japan, the most racist culture in the world, send thousands of japanese men to Brazil, a country that is basically black and brown people, so that they could work in a slave-like system in coffee plantations?
racism is just a meme
also even though japan was industrialized it was still very poor, about as poor as Latin America in 1900 apparently
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita#1.E2.80.932003_.28Maddison.29
>>594354
>Japan, the most racist culture in the world
YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT "RACISM" MEANS; DO NOT USE WORDS THE MEANING OF WHICH YOU IGNORE.
>>594354
Japan wasn't racist, it was xenophobic
>salt of the earth
What did he mean by this?
>>594164
JESUS IN THAT DEPICTION, IS HOLDING "THE BOOK OF 4CHAN".
>>salt of the earth
>What did he mean by this?
THE VERSE CONTAINING THAT TERM MEANS THAT THE GNOSTIC ONES ARE THE MATERIAL WORLD'S MEDIUM TOWARD GOD, AND THAT IF THEY LOSE THEIR GNOSIS, THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY WORTHLESS.
SALT INCREASES ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY, AND IS THUS A MEDIUM FOR ELECTRICITY, AND ELECTRICITY TRAVELS VIA THE AETHER WHICH IS THE UNIVERSAL MEDIUM, WHICH EMANATES DIRECTLY FROM GOD, SO, SALT, BY INCREASING ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY, IS THE MATERIAL FACILITATOR OF THE GODLY.
SALT = THE GNOSTIC ONES.
EARTH = THE MATERIAL ZONE.
>>594195
Then Gnostics inherit the material zone?
>>594220
NO; THEY TRANSCEND IT —TRANSCENDENCE ESSENTIALLY IS THE TELOS OF (TRUE) CHRISTIANITY.
How is this even a debate?
All countries in the world were defined by war. Jews fought and won. Even if it wasn't theirs, tough shit arabs. Move away.
The only thing keeping the """"""""""country"""""""""" of Palestine alive is our need to be politically correct
This is one of the few posts when this is valid:
*tips fedora*
>>593968
>Jews fought and won
fighting only on easy mode doesn't unlock new levels m8.
So why are former colonial states in asia so much more successful than former colonial states in Africa?
>>593955
are they really though?
china/japan/korea werent colonized m8
>>593983
The major economic hubs of china were colonies, don't give me that.
Korea was colonized by Japan.
Singapore was colonized by Britain.
And they're all doing great.
How did the scourge of corporations come about? How do we destroy them?
pic related
>>593766
Corporations have a vital role in the future perpetuity of humankind. They're fine.
>>593770
Is Byzantium's fall Basil II's fault?
Seems like most of the chaos that occurred after his death could be avoided if he produced a male heir.
>>593662
No. A bigger reason would be the Fourth Crusade.
>>593704
Pretty much, though even after the 4th crusade if they had made a concerted effort to kick the turks out of anatolia they could have recovered. After they unified it was useless
>>593709
I suppose, if you consider that the Byzantines were left alone to retake Anatolia, which wasn't the case. Michael VII wasn't just concerned about the Turks, but a repeat of an attack from the West by the same forces that sacked Constantinople.
What was the regular diet of a roman citizen from ca. 27BC? Was it different for a soldier than for a farmer than for an aristocrat? If so, how?
Poor people would eat bread with dried food such as olives, potatoes and tomatoes, hardly any meat. The aristocrat had access to sugar and coffee. Jokes aside, I have no idea but I want to bump the thread because I'm interested as well.
>>593589
>tomato
>potato
>coffee
>jokes aside
I almost jumped at your comment without reading it
They had tons of grain imported from Egypt, sometimes paid for by politicians seeking popularity, poor plebeians might eat nothing but bread provided by the state.
Alternating legumes and grain could be practiced in some areas so plebs would often eat puls, a kind of pottage/porridge like that eaten by medieval peasants, made by mashing up grain, beans, peas, herbs and seasonal vegetables.
The Origin of the Golden Ticket.
Back in school I would often be given prompts. The prompts usually involved a task in order to be solved. They were tasked so as to unravel perplexities of the human mind, civilization, time and necessity. One of these was called the Golden Potato, the successor of the Golden Egg.
The reality behind the Golden Egg is that all commercial geese meat at one point had a common bloodline. They were the stockiest, the most delicious. If you were said to possess the original golden egg, you'd control society.
Now lets get back to the potato. The potato itself has become one of the largest food crops. It has caused wars. It has ended them. To the point it is one of the most influential foods. However it is said that all the potatoes in the world have a common ancestor from which they all came and/or developed from that is more recent than one would expect. It is said that this potato is the Golden Potato. If you can get your hands on it, you'd control every single thing in modern history and immigration.
It is said that mining is to technology as farming is to immigration.
If you could get your hands on the golden potato where would you put one of its seed potatoes. location, year and why that specific location in space-time?
>>593478
I don't see how it would be a golden potato.
Let's say potato A mutates a new gene and becomes a new potato B which goes off to become a famous staple crop while potato A's unmutated kids are still in the Amazon jungle.
Then centuries later after the original potato A is dead, you find its potato A descendents in the jungle and say "hey I have the original potato, I get to patent all potatoes".
However other people can say "potato B was potato A's kid too, don't discriminate based on genes, that is racist". Now you're fucked, you have no claim.
>>593523
It can be the golden maize as well.
Remember these crops are susceptible to bacteria, viruses and humans are more than capable of moving to a better location to grow their crops. People will follow the surplus.
>>593478
If they didn't have that exact species of starch source, people would just find some other source of calories in their biome.
Where does one start with biblical studies?
>>593255
Richard Carrier
>>593255
By learning the original languages, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek.
>>593267
And Latin
So one thing I've been on a kick of wanting to learn more about recently is the Gilded Age. It seems like an incredibly interesting period of time and recently I've been reading a Garfield biography which is a nice small window into the upper level politics of the time.
What's some other suggested reading I should be doing on the time period, be it politics, biographies of presidents/other important people like James G. Blaine or business tycoons, the development of the railroads, social history of the period, the West/frontier... anything really although maybe not straying too much into Marxist "EVERYTHING WAS BAD" territory or at least some stuff to balance that out.
>"maybe not straying too much into Marxist "EVERYTHING WAS BAD" territory or at least some stuff to balance that out"
This makes it difficult. Usually people writing about it also praise the so-called progressive era and later, FDR, Great Society etc. All things that sound good but there are legitimate questions and controversies about them. Textbook history is just the worst.
Historians are rarely interested in economics.
>era of rapid economic growth, industrialisation, expansion of schools and hospitals and wage growth of 60% despite the massive influx of immigrants
>people only talk about "muh inequality"
It was a great time, OP.
Carnegie did nothing wrong
What happened to Spain? How did they go from a world power to what they are today?
The eternal anglo.
The eternal anglo.
>>592747
Not surprised