What led to Wahhabism hijacking the image of Islam?
>Bongs are buttmad that they don't control ME
>Saudis are buttmad that they don't control ME
>Wahhab says "I've got a shitload of people in my tribe, if you let me preach my message I'll give them to you, Saud"
>Bongistan says "I've got a shitload of money, if you give me control over trade then I'll give it to you, Saud"
>Saud's fw
Arabs being savages as usual
>>555945
petroshekels
its happening in india right now.
good /his/figures who have had their characters assassinated
>inb4 you first OP
>inb4 Nicholas II
>>555559
Stalin had plenty of people assassinated, that's true.
>>555559
post hitler next :^)
In World War 2, why did the Allies land on the beaches that were heavily fortified with pillboxes and machine gunners and whatnot? Surely there were some beaches in Europe that were not being defended by the Germans.
>>555537
Nexto to the Allied bases? Not as much as may think.
>>555537
They did: in Sicily and later in South Italy. But Stalin demanded that the western Allies made a landing elsewhere as well, to open up a new front and divert some Axis troops away from the Eastern front.
Churchill prefered a landing somewhere in the Adriatic (either Istria or Dalmatia), as they could coordinate a joint operation with the partisans. The Americans, on the other hand, prefered to launch a landing on the Atlantic coast. Normandy was much closer to Britain than the Adriatic was to the Allied positions in the Mediterranean. On the other hand, a previous landing on the coast near Dieppe had failed and the Allies feared Operation Overlord would be a failure, too.
>>555537
The further you travel with an invasion fleet, the higher the risk of detection and losses.
Are you of/descended from nobility /his/? share some historical info about your famrey.
>>554830
Of course I am.
>>554830
To my knowledge, no.
My father's side of the family is Irish/German. We don't know much about the Irish side, but I do know the German side came from Silesia during the 1800s. This is the Coast of Arms for the German side of my ancestry.
My mother's side is mostly English. Though she has always maintained we have some Jamaican heritage. I'm skeptical, but my aunt has found a plantation owner in the West Indies in our ancestry.
>>554830
A drop, someone in our family was a bastard son of a Swedish nobleman, he lived 200-300 years ago.
Does Republic of Macedonia FYROM has anything more in common with ancient Macedonia than part of the occupied land? From where and when did slavs get here?
>>554768
No.
>>554768
Slav migrations
Modern day Macedonians have literally notning in common with Alexanders Macedonia
Mainly because those who lived in modern day FYROM were greeks now they are slavs (basically Bulgarians)
>>554768
Tito managed to convince some Bulgars that "WE WUZ ALEXANDER AND SHEIT"
What was the closest real world equivalent to the Rohirrim?
Was there one at all?
They seem to be based partially on the Anglo-Saxons, but the Anglo-Saxons didn't use cavalry much as far as I know. Perhaps the Goths are a more accurate comparison?
Where there any early-middle age European societies that relied heavily or primarily on light-to-medium cavalry? Not counting Iranian and Eurasian steppe peoples, as the Rohirrim are clearly more northern or western European or Nordic in appearance.
Additionally, were there any particular middle age societies that relied on cavalry that primarily used missile weapons (such as javelins), spears (rather than actual couched lances) and, to a lesser extent, swords primarily from horseback?
>>554711
There is no Western equivalent, or at least not anything that could be pointed to as a direct influence.
If you look East, you're far more likely to see similarities, but many of them come later than the early Middle Ages.
>>554711
Most of the Germanic tribes that wandered used heavy cavalry as the basis of their fighting forces, but none of them were that effective at charges and doctrine.
Lombards, Vandals and Goths are probably the closest you'll get.
In the movies the Rohirrim have an anglo-saxon appearance. In the movies.
>>554711
Tolkien based Rohan on Mercia, so that's probably it.
Can we have some pre-photography art where the artist had to guess at the things he hadn't seen?
>>554676
Why limit the thread to pre-photography, though?
Glorious worker's paradise didn't know which color bananas were.
/his/, I just had an interesting conversation with a student at my uni. She said that she wanted military history and history, political science, and so on classes about war and violence removed from university curriculums nationwide, and also literature or film classes that assigned books or films that show violence or war in a positive way.
I asked her why, and she said that the humanities, including military histories, have often been used to push a violent, hegemonic narrative of militarization and to legitimize violent agendas and violent actions in the mind of students. She said the reason that there is so much violence in western culture is because from a young age children are taught military history, watch war movies, and are encouraged to study military history and literature about war and military adventure in college. She said she was protesting against militarized education like the teaching of war novels and military history in schools.
What does /his/ think of this idea? I disagree with it and think it is stupid, but is there a valid defense of these ideas?
>>554175
Regardless of what the academic focus of a school is, the realities of life will always force focus towards the functionality of violence than the facade of intellectualism.
>>554175
Violence between people predates universities.
War is part of human nature and deserves to be studied as such.
What went wrong? Why did it devolve into race riots, violent anti-war protests, suburban flight, urban blight, and the shift in allegiance of white middle- and working-class voters to the Republican Party? Is it all LBJ's fault or were there bigger influences at work?
It was soviet psyops, especially in detroit. Not even tinfoil.
>>553766
It's all LBJ's fault.
LBJ implemented those programs as much to make poor voters vote democrat than anything else. They are not much more than vote-buying programs.
Did byzantines consider themselves greeks or roman?
>>553556
both
>>553556
They referred to themselves as the Roman empire
>>553566
Can confirm. Also, the notion of Byzantium and Eastern Romans were apperently modern creations by some German historian I believe
can someone explain stoic philosophy to me? why is virtue important?
>>553394
No fun allowed. Think, the opposite of hedonism. Very ascetic in nature.
>>553394
Because it's all you have control over.
Someone get the cheat sheet.
How are there still Marxists-Leninists in modern day and age? I mean, at least the other Marxists can use the "NEVER BEEN TRIED" copout, but how do M-Ls cope with the fact the implementation of their ideas ended up being a complete failure?
>>553390
>How are there still Marxists-Leninists in modern day and age
>IT'S CURRENT YEAR
>>553390
The Soviet Union managed to carry out one of the greatest and fastest increases in human standard of living in history via crash industrialization. Not everything the USSR ever did was bad.
>>553395
Yes, in the CURRENT YEAR, since in the CURRENT YEAR they can easily see that Marxism-Leninism has been tried several times and it ended up being shit everywhere.
Is America the only modernized country wherein over half the population can graduate high school and not know when the The Roman Republic existed, when the French Revolution happened, and not know who Voltaire is?
>>553282
You're dreaming if you think more than 5% of the population of any country in the world could tell you those facts
>>553282
Is America the only country where the critique of the history curriculum amounts to requiring knowledge of trivial Anglocentric dates?
>>553331
>Anglocentric
The past is told by those who win, Mehmet.
Military history fan here, and I have some questions about the SS. I already know the basics: they were a special branch of the Nazi Party, originally designed to enforce the genocidal goals of the party in foreign lands, and eventually many units were converted to combat units when the pressure of the war became more intense. Also know they were responsible for a lot of the worst massacres of POW's and civilians. My question here is, how much better trained for combat, or less better trained, than the regular Wermacht were they? I see some accounts calling them "elite troops" and the most intense and die-hard soldiers of the Nazi regime, and others saying historical records indicate their performance in action was less than stellar yet Hitler insisted they continue to fight. I've read that their physical training regime was the most intense in the German military and they were given a spartan like mindset when it came to combat. On the flip-side however, I've also have read they were despised by the Wermacht for being "rabid dogs" and "unofficial soldiers" due to their ways and methods of initiation into the military. Can anyone shed light on this? Post any other small bits of information you may know as well.
>>552905
>I see some accounts calling them "elite troops" and the most intense and die-hard soldiers of the Nazi regime, and others saying historical records indicate their performance in action was less than stellar
They were the most fanatical believers in the Nazi doctrine, you can say they were part of that ideological elite. They were not however elite combat units, not by any stretch of the imagination. Google 'Brandenburg Divisions' if you want to learn more about German special ops during WW2.
>>552926
So basically they did have the die-hard attitude and mindset of the combat elite, yet lacked the overall training to fully encompass it? It's pretty funny when you think about it, usually in movies in video games when the SS shows up all the soldiers shit themselves, while now it's clear you'd rather be fighting them than the regular Wermacht.
>>552940
>when the SS shows up all the soldiers shit themselves
Because they were exceptionally cruel. Most of the Wermacht hated their guts.
Was there any cooler unit that war elphants? I don't think so.
>>552506
t.barca
>>552506
berserkers