Why was HBO's 'Rome' so based?
>>458216
Rome is the best show I watched in my entire life of 22 years
>>458232
It has one BIG fucking flaw, lad.
>>458234
Which is?
How did a few bands of uncivilized, stone-wielding hunter-gatherers develop into a multi-continental conglomerate of nation-states with highly advanced cultures, economies, and technologies?
slowly
>>458203
It's our destiny, anon
>>458203
Religion in the form of colonizing Cults.
Who's your favorite historical character?
Mine is Charlie the Really Big Guy.
not gonna happen
Alberto barbossa
Mine is Dick Kitty Tummy
Could they have ever won?
>>457799
Maybe if Italy never invaded Greece and then had to call Germany to intervene
>>457799
>double quads
If the French/Poles were not an obstacle, but an ally, and the British at least economically helped them out.
Yes.
Unfortunately, faggots are the victors of recent history.
From the little I understand, the German military didn't put enough importance on supply lines and logistics.
Even if they had...that's a lot of land.
The traditional Christian response I've heard to the problem of evil is that people have free will and have fallen into sin, and the traditional atheist response I've heard is that natural disasters like hurricanes have nothing to do with free will and still cause human suffering. This is where the conversation usually ends, and I'm wondering if anyone has a good rebuttal to the natural disaster problem
As a Christian, I don't think people are punished on Earth for their sins except by the natural consequences, i.e. extramarital sex leading to STDs and pregnancy. I don't think evil makes one more likely to be a victim of a natural disaster. Stuff happens. I believe we will be punished for our sins in the afterlife.
God sends droughts and tsunami to darker people to test faith of overweight white middle-class Christians in USA and to let them be better Christians by donating $20 to charity.
I'm not making it up, this is a paraphrase of an explanation I've heard.
is there a goatse version of that picture?
Hypothetically, if you were a terrorist with a time machine, and you could kill one person at any point in time to cause the most damage to humanity, who would you kill?
Alexander the Great before he could conquer Asia and establish a dynasty that would unite all people under one flag. Just imagine, it would probably take another thousand years before another conqueror of his caliber could create a world order. Can you imagine living a thousand years ago? Wouldn't even be able to post from Mars.
>>456732
Alexander's empire barely lasted a single generation
Also >unite all people
You mean Macedonia, Greece, Mesopotamia, Egypt, as far as he could get into India, and Persia which at the time was like half the world's population to be fair but hardly ALL people.
>>456724
>Most damage to humanity
Stalin, easily. His sudden death triggers WWIII
Why is liberty so overrated? Isn't it better to live in a dictatorship/kingdom than in a hypocrite "democracy"?
I like doing shit desu senpai
It really depends on what role your playing in that situation, if you are a person, villien, serf, or slave in that political society you might not be to happy or find time to learn how to wind surf because your working 15 hours a day. The king or dictator in that same political society or corporation has a compete opposite point of view, he's got all the time he wants to become expert wind surfer and hang out getting drunk and eating chicken wings. What is his only obligation really? Whatever he decides. I believe your asking this because you never actually been free, truly free, historically speaking, men who are the subjects to another or even a sovereign state like Rome can never find happiness or security. It was a society of slaves where all men are equal under a single sovereign power, to eachother they appear to be free but actually they're not because they are equally subjects under the sovereign power in a political slave society.
Depends on where you are in that hierarchy
What was so bad about this guy?
He was really bad in the third season of House of Cards
>>454657
He got caught.
>>454657
watergate
Were they the best warriors of their time?
Nah Swadians are way better.
They lacked a proper religion of war. Even if they had a God of War (I assume?), they couldn't match someone whose sole functional purpose is to act like a spiritual grey goo.
Did they have Ulfberht swords? Because they had the best steel for a while.
Andreas Palaiologos was the last Byzantine pretender. He sold his claims to Isabella and Ferdinand.
Does this mean the current Spanish monarch has a claim on Constantinople?
>>453857
The current spanish monarch is a Bourbon.
>>453972
>Who is directly descended from the Habsburgs
>directly
no
Isabella and Ferdinand weren't even Assburgs.
How were attitudes towards homosexuals in the medieval period/Dark Ages?
>>453628
Fair
>>453628
Some feudal states would not permit marriage
>>453645
And by that he means punishable by death.
Is a human just Homo sapiens sapiens? Do other advanced members of the genus Homo count? I mean, Neanderthals, Denisovans, and that unnamed third species from Africa could all breed with us, and they were different species with advanced behaviors. What about other bipedal apes known as hominins? If tigers and cougars are all considered cats, then shouldn't they be "humans"?
>>453356
>and that unnamed third species
never heard of such. you mean h. sapiens idaltu or h. heidelbergensis?
>>453377
No, not idaltu, although that probably did happen (which is why the only race of human is extinct now, kek). It might be Heidelbergensis though.
http://www.livescience.com/15911-humans-interbred-extinct-relatives.html
>>453418
*only other true race
Are their any noticeable effects of neanderthal genes among modern human populations?
>>451451
specifically physically, i know that the neanderthal admixture changed brain composition and immune system function
Larger supra orbital torus, occipital bun, larger nose cavity, heavier brow ridge, thicker skin
Some say red hair and other characteristics but that's highly debatable and involving complete speculation
Not really. At absolute most a person can have up to 4% of the DNA that seperates them from chimps (which is about 1% of the total genome) be from neanderthals. Considering that the majority of DNA is non-coding junk sequences, you're looking at imperceptible differences based purely on neanderthal dna.
Why do so many cultures have depictions and stories of dragons despite being mythical?
>>451322
The phallus.
The word dinosaur was invented in 1841. It means terrible lizard.
Before that, they were called dragons. The reason so many ancient cultures and civilizations talk about dragons is because man lived with them. There are even pots depicting man riding on dinosaurs.
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Dinosaurs you retard
What historical nation/state/army do you wish you could have been a part of?
Pic related
Achaemenid or Roman Empire under the five good Emperors. For armies though, Prussia for sure.
>>450927
American Army during the early 1900's.
mostly cause Krag-Jorgensons are hella sexy
Imagine being the Roman soldier who drilled the nails into the hands of Jesus.
I wonder how much he is burning in hell right now