Were Humans always Apex predators /his/? If not, when did they become them? When man first learned to sharpen a stick and kill something with it?
>>3197866
>Were Humans always Apex predators /his/?
"no"
>when did they become them?
when they made weapons and developed hunting tactics
>When man first learned to sharpen a stick and kill something with it?
absolutely impossible to pinpoint
>>3197875
>when they made weapons and developed hunting tactics
Chimpanzees make weapons and hunt in groups. Does that make them apex predators then.
>>3197875
>>Absolutely impossible to pinpoint
Whether or not it's impossible to pinpoint is irrelevant. So is that when it happened?
does the claim in pic related have any truth to it?
At this point I take it for granted that the whole Trinity gimmick was developed to rationalize fitting in the Jesus character into the picture.
>>3197756
https://bible.org/article/textual-problem-1-john-57-8
>>3197756
https://youtu.be/NZSdwbopKJo
http://www.ancient.eu/article/1104/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=zapier&utm_campaign=FB-AHE
"During the Old Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2613-2181 BCE) there was no official police force. The monarchs of the period had personal guards to protect them and hired others to watch over their tombs and monuments. Nobles followed this paradigm and hired trustworthy Egyptians from respectable backgrounds to guard their valuables or themselves.
By the time of the 5th Dynasty, toward the end of the Old Kingdom, this model began to change with kings and nobles choosing their guards from among the military and ex-military as well as from foreign nations, such as the Nubian Medjay warriors. Armed with wooden staffs, this early police was tasked with guarding public places (markets, temples, parks) and often used dogs and trained monkeys to apprehend criminals.
A relief from the 5th Dynasty tomb of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum depicts a police officer apprehending a thief in the market place with one of these monkeys. The monkey is restraining the thief by the leg as the officer approaches to arrest him. Dogs were used primarily in the same way, for apprehension, but also served in their familiar capacity as guardians. The breeds most often depicted as police dogs from this period are the Basenji and Ibizan."
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>>3197733
"The Old Kingdom collapsed and ushered in the era of the First Intermediate Period of Egypt (2181-2040 BCE) during which the central government was weak and the individual nomarchs (district governors) held more or less supreme power over their regions. Records from the First Intermediate Period are sparse because there was no strong central government bureaucracy to keep and catalogue them but the same basic model seems to have applied: the upper class hired private guards to protect their homes and property, and these guards were drawn from a class of society, often Nubian, with some military experience.
Bedouins were often employed to police the borders and assist in protecting trade caravans while Egyptian guards served in more domestic spheres. There was no standing army in Egypt at this time, and so these men were also posted as sentries at forts along the border, guarded the royal tombs, and served as personal bodyguards and protectors for traders on expeditions to other lands.
The Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2040-1782 BCE) saw the creation of the first standing army under the reign of Amenemhat I (c. 1991-1962 BCE) of the 12th Dynasty. These soldiers were highly trained professional warriors who now were posted at garrisons along the border and were sometimes sent along with royal trade expeditions. The somewhat informal arrangement of employing warriors as guards was replaced by the development of a professional police force with specific focus on enforcing law; the new army took over most of the old guard’s responsibilities."
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>>3197750
"This period also saw the creation of a judicial system which was far superior to that of the past. Previously, court cases were heard by a panel of scribes and priests who would weigh the evidence and consult with each other and their god. If one were wealthy enough, one could easily bribe this panel and walk free. In the Middle Kingdom, the position of the professional judge was created. Judges were men versed in the law and paid by the state who were so amply compensated and cared for that they were considered incorruptible. The creation of judges led to the development of courts which required bailiffs, court scribes, court police, detectives, and interrogators.
The Second Intermediate Period of Egypt (c. 1782 - c. 1570 BCE) was another era of weak central government and uneven record keeping. The Hyksos, a foreign people, held the Delta region and much of Lower Egypt and the Nubians had encroached from the south into Upper Egypt. Some of the Nubians, however, sold their services to the princes of Thebes as mercenaries in their army and as guardians for trade expeditions. These were the Medjay warriors, legendary in their own time for their skill and courage in battle. When Ahmose I (c. 1570-1544 BCE) drove the Hyksos from Egypt, he employed these mercenaries in his army and afterwards, once order was restored, they formed the core of the professional police force of Egypt.
Ahmose I initiated the era known as the New Kingdom of Egypt (c. 1570 - c. 1069 BCE) in which this police force became more organized and the judicial system as a whole was reformed and developed further. There was never any occupation which corresponded to a lawyer in ancient Egypt but the practice of allowing witnesses to testify on behalf of the accused – while an officer of the court prosecuted – became commonplace."
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>>3197758
"Police officers served as prosecutors, interrogators, bailiffs, and also administered punishments. The police, in general, were responsible for enforcing both state and local laws, but there were special units, trained as priests, whose job was to enforce temple law and protocol. These laws often had to do with not only protecting temples and tombs but with preventing blasphemy in the form of inappropriate behavior at festivals or improper observation of religious rites during services.
As head of state, the pharaoh was commander-in-chief of the military and also the police force but, in practice, his vizier was the top official of the judicial system. The vizier chose the judges and appointed the chief of police whose title, Chief of the Medjay, was a carry-over from the time when the police force was mainly comprised of Nubian warriors.
The Chief of the Medjay was always an Egyptian who employed other Egyptians as his deputies while Nubians continued to make up the units who served as the pharaoh’s personal bodyguards, watched over markets and other public places, and protected the royal trade caravans. The chief also appointed what would amount to sub-chiefs of different municipalities who selected their own deputies and assigned constables to different beats.
Ultimately, a police precinct was responsible to the vizier, but practically they answered to their individual chiefs who then answered to the Chief of the Medjay. The exception to this rule were the temple police who were under the supervision of the head priest of a given temple. Even these men, however, were ultimately accountable to the vizier. There was no oath taken upon becoming a police officer; one was expected to recognize one’s place in society, as dictated by the order established by ma’at, and perform one’s duties accordingly."
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why?
>>3200283
i mean, what were his main accomplishments in wwi? all i know is the failed brusilov offensive
>>3200285
>failed
How common was rape during wars?
Was it something any soldier would do when given the opportunity?
Or was there a certain percentage of men who would rape, while the majority wouldn't do such things?
>>3197645
It happens in almost every war. We only recently stopped doing it because of COIN and yet it still happens.
>>3197645
>How common was rape during wars?
Absolutely.
>Was it something any soldier would do when given the opportunity?
It was considered a basic perk of being a soldier until about the 18th century when suddenly the Enlightenment took over and they were like "civilians are people too, be nice to them."
This is from Harappa 2300 bc, almost two thousand years before Greek sculptures
It's small but accurate
>small but accurate
You got that right
India's intellectual tradition is every bit as vast and sophisticated as China's and Europe's.
>>3197642
some chink probably dropped in during a sunday walk
also DESIGNATED
This may seem like a dumbass question but how the fuck did the Caliphate survive the attacks from the Mongols, Europe, etc?
>>3197589
>the caliphate
Which one of them?
Abbasid or iberian I believe
>be Ivan the Terrible
>have one good son (the others are dead or retarded)
>good son has pregnant wife
>son's wife walks around palace dressed like a slut
>beat the shit out of her
>she miscarries
>son complains that you beat up his wife
>beat the shit out of him
>accidentally kill him
>OH NO WHAT HAVE I DONE
Was it autism?
It was the mercury
>>3197371
no it was literal amok caused by poisoning
nasty shit
>>3197371
>Guys I'm not Tsar anymore
>Seriously this other guy is the tsar now
>...
>JUST KIDDING MOTHERFUCKERS DIE DIE DIE
Is the killing of President Doe of Liberia the most fucked up recording of a historical event?
>>3197590
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2o55dz
The Ceaucescu couple was practically executed by firing squad on live TV
>>3199391
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfdvva
forgot link
Thread for First World War discussion.
I will start off with a question: was it possible for the Russian Army to succeed in the opening stages of the War (Tannenberg, Maurisian Lakes), and, if so, what impact would this have had on the war as a whole?
>>3197299
First for the German fatherland.
>>3197299
It was possible, but the Germans would have had to make operational errors or the Russians would have had to correct doctrinal problems before the war (namely their radio discipline so that they don't broadcast their orders in clear).
If the Germans lost, they wouldn't be defeated in 1914 because their reinforcements are already en route, but they might lose East Prussia at least temporarily. The threat may panic the Kaiser enough to strip additional corps from the West, reducing the pressure on France.
Most importantly, Russia's good-quality first line formations are not annihilated and their army remains effective in 1915. In the long term this could change their fortunes substantially.
>>3197358
>Most importantly, Russia's good-quality first line formations are not annihilated and their army remains effective in 1915. In the long term this could change their fortunes substantially.
Are we talking possibly remaining in the war until the end? Or just delaying the inevitable?
>WE WUZ KANGZ (complete with pretending both the Roman Empire and Medieval Europe was filled with Nignogs)
>feminism
>Amerifat Fundiementalism
>relativism
>modern art
Oh wait, you can't.
>>3197541
>Amerifat Fundiementalism
ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER
ONE OF THESE JUST DOES NOT BELONG
>>3197541
>i don't know what postmodernism is
>>3197541
Only if you explain what post modernism is
Alt-WW2 thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yew3fDEPqEQ&t=18s
**glug glug let me larp about how my people lost WWII by pretending Francisco Franco was perfectly capable of turning the tides of WWII glug glug**
The better scenario is if Germany and AH were to win WWI. It's more likely, and more good would have come out of it.
>>3197510
Okay how do you know he wasn't?
Yes his military was weak, but Italy was just as weak as Spain.
Yet Italy successfully invaded all of northern Africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbBojWrOV2Y
The STUPIDEST thing I have ever seen.
Start from 1:30 to see what I mean.
>>3197233
hindsight is always 20/20, but if you were there you wouldn't know how to fight against that differently, trust me, they tried
>he thinks the world is complicated
Yeah, you just lack the strength to stand for what's right.
>>3197215
I took biology 101 shit was complicated
Philipp Mainländer (October 5, 1841 – April 1, 1876) was a German poet and philosopher...
In his central work Die Philosophie der Erlösung (The Philosophy of Redemption) – according to Theodor Lessing "perhaps the most radical system of pessimism known to philosophical literature" – Mainländer proclaims that life is absolutely worthless, and that "the will, ignited by the knowledge that non-being is better than being, is the supreme principle of morality.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Mainl%C3%A4nder
"... Therefore the universe, as we know it, was born through the suicide of God. God decided that he can't bear his existence anymore and that he wishes to turn into Nothingness. But he was not able to reach that goal without thereby creating our world..This entire world is therefore nothing more than God's "body", that is in all its components rotting into nothingness now.
The Universal Law of the Weakening of Power:
The course of the universe is therefore defined as a movement from the over-being (God) through the being (our universe) into nothingness. The world itself is the decay in the plurality, that means in egoistic individuals that are fighting each other...The purpose of every natural force, every form of matter and every form of life is exclusively to weaken the power sum of the universe by living the path through the state of being into nothingness. Every part of nature is desiring for absolute death, because that is the ultimate goal of every form of matter and life - to turn into nothing.
More:
http://philosophy-of-redemption.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-rotting-god-mainlanders-metaphysic.html
>>3197066
>poet
Into the trash