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What was the strongest point of the United States as a world power?
1950s? 1990s? 2000s?
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>>505780
Late 40's and early 50's. Being the only nuclear power makes all the difference.
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>>505780
Bretton-Woods sounds like a good metric to me
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>>505969
Russia had nukes by 1949 m8.
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What went wrong?
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Clearly nothing.
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Luther's true goal was to convince the Catholic church to reform as a whole, which he saw the church as straying away from God's original message through the indulgence sales, sale of church positions, etc.
Well the Pope or the Council didn't budge, so the people who believed in Luther's message broke from the church and started the reformation that would end the age of a monolithic christian church.
The Catholic church did reform much in the way that Luther wanted eventually tho, but by that time the damage was done.
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>What went wrong?
Catholicism.
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Why do Anglos and Teutons and Norse (basically all Germanics) identify with Greco-Roman accomplishments and the Renaissance? Isn't that basically "le formerly monarchs" meme?
Also, how do you guys feel about Spengler's comparison of Western, Germanic architecture to Byzantine?
>In the earliest time the landscape-figure alone dominates man's eyes. It gives form to his soul and vibrates in tune therewith. Feelings and woodland rus- tlings beat together; the meadows and the copses adapt themselves to its shape, to its course, even to its dress. The village, with its quiet hillocky roofs, its evening smoke, its wells, its hedges, and its beasts, lies completely fused and embedded in the landscape. The country town confirms the country, is an intensification of the picture of the country. It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high- pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature.
He contrasts the spires efforts to reach toward an infinitely far away heaven, with the completeness of Byzantine architecture, domes that encompass heaven (indeed, Christ is on the interior of every Orthodox dome when you look up, and the ceilings are covered in angels and saints from heaven joining with the laity representing earth) and Churches that are icons of the whole of creation, an unity and love of the material instead of trying to escape from it. In fact, Spengler goes so far as to consider Byzantine style superior to classical Greek.
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Isnt this guy the brother in law of Walter White ?
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Spengler is a reductionist memelord who thinks he can explain 5000 years of history with memes, confirmation bias and shit he just pulled out of his ass.
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>>505648
Spengler had some interesting ideas (like the relationship between a civilization's mathematics and a worldview) and put forth some valid questions, but he was way off the mark with his assessments of cultures. Honestly the way he treats some civilizations is as if they almost exist in a vacuum.
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completely serious question here.
how did men hide erections in 18/17th century trousers/pants? or, for that matter, stockings?
>in4 no need to hide
i'd prefer if my baron/king didn't see that i fancied his baroness/queen and lob off my knob.
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they didn't
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>>505579
not going to lie, looks like he stuffed it
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>>505555
By ejaculating and thus triggering their refractory period where no erection is possible.
Good thing rape was socially acceptable back then.
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When neurologists have proven the nature of consciousness to be a behavioral process in the brain how long will it take philosophers to abandon the intellectual poison that is dualism?
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I don't think very many philosopher still hold the position, even the religious thinkers seem to be dropping it.
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wtf, name one philosopher who is a serious dualist in 2015.
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>>505554
A person who wants to believe in dualism will still believe in dualism.
Homeopathy has not been completely dropped yet either.
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I fear death a lot more than I used to recently.
The thought of nonexistence and my life being inconsequential is starting to irk me.
I know I wont care, because I wont exist. But the thought of not existing is pretty spooky.
How do you deal with the inevitability of death?
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>>505396
Faith, believing in a God, that my life has purpose and that my creator send me to this world for a special cause. If I believe in him, his greatness and obey his laws, he will grant me eternal peace and life after death.
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>>505396
I wish for death often but I'm too cowardly to kill myself. I'm comfy too, so it can wait. For as long as I've felt this way I've had a weird sort of romantic ideal of death and it's gotten to the point where I don't understand people who fear death in and of itself. My fear is not doing something worthwhile before death, and I kind of have a fear of dying too soon in that sense, but that's kind of assuaged by the fact that if I commit suicide I'd be dying on my own terms so I wouldn't feel like a failure. "Take up arms against a sea of troubles" kind of job.
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>>505396
Once you're dead, you too will be /his/tory
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Suppose the Crisis of the Third century never happened, Christianity never became the state religion of the Empire, and Rome (including the West) never fell up to the year 2016. Is it really probable that we'd have advanced further technologically by now? Or did conditions in the empire create stagnation and we actually needed the conditions of the Early Modern Period to advance like we did?
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>Suppose the Crisis of the Third century never happened, Christianity never became the state religion of the Empire, and Rome (including the West) never fell up to the year 2016. Is it really probable that we'd have advanced further technologically by now?
No. Modernity and the search for "new shit every week" wasn't invented until the 16th century. Your question is retarded anyway.
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>>505158
The existence or eventual lack-there-of of the Roman state had very little weight on the pace of technological progress through the centuries (not that it would be quantifiable anyways). Rather, the empire simply allowed for the scale and application of certain existing technologies to flourish due to their civil or military applications, while others technologies become footnotes.
I suppose the only real advantage that a united empire might have brought was better diffusion of ideas from east to west and vice versa.
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>>505158
>Or did conditions in the empire create stagnation
yep. employment, not innovation, was the order of the day, so technological advancement was not a priority
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Why did the Byzantines neglect statues? It's really bad for their image through contemporary eyes because mosaics and icons look quite comical and primitive in comparison to statues. It encourages the "art went to shit during the dark ages" narrative when art was always quite shitty before the Renaissance if you ignore statues and architecture.
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>>504785
> It's really bad for their image through contemporary eyes
They really didn't care
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>>504785
Good relief sculptures are far, far harder to do than free standing ones. You've just been culturally conditioned to see one as a symbol of the glorious Roman Empire and the other as that of a degenerate Byzantine Empire superseded by glorious western European civilisation.
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>>504800
Anyhow, statues were always a major motif in the ancient world so it's weird how they stopped doing it between the Renaissance. Is it really because of muh Idols?
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Were the Indo-Europeans practically mongols? Apparently, horses were particularly important to them. What caused their migration? Were they extraordinarily warlike?
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>>504588
This isn't historically answerable as they didn't leave documentary records.
Linguistics is unable to answer your question.
Archaeology is unable to answer your question.
Your question is unanswerable.
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It is highly likely the first Indo-Europeans were steppe nomads from the Russian steppe. We know that they invaded various locations throughout Eurasia, bringing their language and culture with them. The commonality of horse-related rituals, the wheel, animal husbandry, lactose tolerance, and bronze working suggests that these advantages were spread by Indo-Europeans, a warlike nomadic people.
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>>504588
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans#Culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_society
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So I heard that germans never won a war.
Realistically, how many wars did germans win anyway?
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>what is the Franco-Prussian War
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is this some autismal as fuck 'hurrr prussia isn't germany' thread?
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>>504481
"Prussia" had Old Prussians speaking prussian.
So, yes, we can call it a "Prussia isn't Germany" since it had other nationalities besides filthy krauts.
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>anno domini 2016
>he doesn't main mongols
explain yourself
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Their imperial age economy is awful and they can't train halberdiers
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>>504268
I'm not finnish
Came from /tv/ who was biggest guy in history?
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Bump for justice
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muhammed
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>>504257
So tell us why doesn't he like his pictures taken ?
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Post tragic images from history.
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A bomb-disposal expert walks towards a device in Belfast.
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>>504033
Unfortunately, even hardened vehicles like the STR-1 eventually failed. So the USSR was forced to use men instead. With grim humor, these men called themselves the 'bio-robots'.
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>>504033
Usually do image dumps on /k/, give a go here on /his/.
Residents of West Berlin show children to their grandparents who reside on the Eastern side, 1961
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Post only based explorers and conquistadors.
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>based
>owning slaves
Back to /b/
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>>503994
Technically they weren't slaves, but close enough.
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The most based explorator of all
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shoo shoo