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Early Chinese states apparently used knives as a form of currency.

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>>529565
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_money

A bunch of places used cowry shells

>>529565
Some places in Africa used bottlecaps. I think some of them continue the practice today.

>>529528
Only when they allow themselves to be overrun by civilizations with higher birth rates (and the cycle continues)

>>529528
Remember France after the Franco-Prussian war

After WW2 their birth rates went up

Also which civilizations died because low birthrates?

>>529721
In 60 years Japan won't exist

>>529497
Dont know if this is bait or you're just retarded but no, just no.

>>529497
Omg, anon, you're so cute. So, any objective evidence to back up your claims, or just loose "hurr, this place accepted gays so that's why they were smart!"?

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All those great civilizations would see homosexual marriage as a farce, so I hope that isn't the gay right you're arguing for.

it is a fine idol for "atheists" who desperately seek some form of an absolute to fill the void made by rejecting God

modern science fetishists are basically priests of the machine

You are retarded

sage

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>>529241
There are these two guys sitting
together in a bar in the remote Alaskan wilderness. One of the guys is religious, the other is an atheist, and the two are arguing about the existence of God with that special intensity that comes after about the fourth beer. And the atheist says:
"Look, it's not like I don't have actual reasons for not believing in God. It's not like I haven't ever experimented with the whole God and prayer thing. Just last month I got caught away from the camp in that terrible blizzard, and I was totally lost and I couldn't see a thing, and it was fifty below, and so I tried it: I fell to my knees in the snow and cried out 'Oh, God, if there is a God, I'm lost in this blizzard, and I'm gonna die if you don't help me.'"
And now, in the bar, the religious guy looks at the atheist all puzzled. "Well then you must believe now," he says, "After all, here you are, alive."
The atheist just rolls his eyes. "No, man, all that was was a couple Eskimos happened to come wandering by and showed me the way back to camp." - david foster wallace.

does oda nobunaga count?
He really tried to unite the japanese mainland and end the sengoku jidai, in the most bloody way possible, and almost managed to do it, but then got assasinated and everything he build up just crumbled back into its old state

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>>529128
>I mean real tragic figures of history
so... hitler?

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>>529156

>>528818

>upcoming

Hello, America!

>>528829
Ya it hasn't been released yet bro.

>>528836

Get a UK proxy from ZenMate and watch it on BBC iPlayer.

>Do not wear blended cloth

Polycotton t-shirt

>Eat pussy
>Violate leviticine dietary laws

>>528807
When I was kid I didn't feel shit when killing a bug but when a grow up I feel bad about killing an ant

especially hearing the crack sound when I crash them

>Manletpoleon
>relevant

Mongols raped Russians back to stone age, and Poles conquered their capital.
Swedes were pretty close to destroying their capital as well as Turks.

>>528697
well i guess the british conquered the united states in 1812 then

I don't know because you can't know nuffin

What's an entry level work to get into his philosophy?

>>528573
You don't

>>528553
>Did he ever stand a chance of winning?

yeah, kinda. The south was winning up until about 1863.

But then again, as the late great Shelbey Foote said, the North was fighting the war with one arm behind its back, and if it really got desperate enough, it would have just gone all out

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>>528553
>Did he (Jefferson Davis/The South) ever stand a chance of winning?

Actually yes. In the initial stages of the war, when both sides were particularly even in force standing and minus Staff Generals, The South had its greatest chance. The strategy of both sides was to effectively make this a quick war.

Even then that's only accounting for manpower. Unfortunately the Confederacy was out gunned at sea. What was the major disadvantage to the south though was it was very agrarian. Although it had sectors that were industrialized, its majority was food production as well as textiles. Where as the North not only had industrial power but also the food production abilities out of Ohio.

The South needed a quick victory because The South didn't have the ability to uphold a long running war.

If the first few battles went more into the Confederacies favor as well as an early hard pushes into Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. It may have been a hugely different story. Most of the battles even though went into confederate favor or were indecisive. The victories were not significant enough to lay claim to a stable advantage.

As >>530133 said about 1863. The South had lost the ability to fight the growing advantage of the northern industrial power and man power that the North was able to maintain.

>>530429
>leaves out that tons of Indians fought for the confederacy

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>>528508
>Pic unrelated.

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>Pic unrelated

I wondered the same, so here's a non-cute bump.

They suffered a similar fuckup as Germans in the beginning, name had to suddenly redeploy divisions from Balkans to Russia.

However how they held the frontline in the Alps, consistently outnumbered against Italy is commendable.

>>528504
They did pretty badly, being wrecked in Italy as well as the Russian front. Even the Ottomans ] had more victories IIRC

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They got absolutely BTFO by Serbs initially, until Potiorek got replaced and Germans stepped into the fray.

What happens in marxist circles stays in marxist circles, basically. Same reason current social justice has a weird comic book obsession, two discussions which take place in the same network will tend to merge into one if their contradictions aren't great enough to cause a split.

>>528491
Because you are thinking of post-structuralism, which is not Critical Theory. The french deconstructivist school leads to New Right.

>>528491

>Is there an inherent bias already in academics who use Critical Theory so that they always come to Left Wing conclusions?

No, there's an inherent bias in people who aren't critical of the Left-Right paradigm to view product of critical theory as "Left"

>>528455
>Why on earth do Africans follow the Abrahamic faiths?
Africans were some of the first christians, m8

>>528455
Because, for one, enslavement was not something unusual in Africa even prior to the arrival of Muslims and Christians. Many of the ones that were sold into both Christian and Muslim slavery were captured by their fellow Africans, regardless of religious standings.

Secondly, when it comes to the Christians, only West Africa really saw enslavement, and most of the people in Africa today don't have that great of interest in the past slave trade outside of general Post-Colonial resentments. Most of the conversions of African people to Christianity (minus the northeast part of the continent) happened in the later 19th century colonization of the continent; long after the Atlantic slave trade ended.

>>528455
For the same reason Slavs, Turks, South Asians, and South Americans do. Integration into the gravy train that was Christian/Muslim economic and diplomatic world.

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>Philosophy

We tried that, didn't work.

That is an unbelievably ignorant statement lol

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But science is just natural philosophy.