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The Umayyads wanted to be seen as intellectual rivals to the Abbasids, and Cordoba had libraries and educational institutions to rival Baghdad.

Many contributions were made in the fields of medicine (the field of surgery in particular), architecture, art, philosophy (Averroes, Abu al Wahid ibn Ruchd )

Christians who were executed deliberately courted martyrdom by publicly declaiming against Islam inside mosques and insulting Muhammad.

>>415523
doesn't get rid of the fact that they had to go though

>>415531
Why?

>>415459
What other country apart from the USA and Brazil had such a big region with an economy based on slavery? And at the same time was big and distant enough to resist external pressure to follow the abolitionist trend from (for example) the British Empire?

>>415468
Dominican Republic is the biggest I can think of, and I can guess the whole West Indies, but then again it is part of UK.

>>415459
Brazil didn't abolish slavery in 1871 precisely because they were afraid of a civil war breaking out after having watched what happened in the U.S.
Instead they agreed on a very slow process of abolition, involving laws that freed any new-born and old-aged slaves.

>>415433
>These guys murdered millions of people and planned to enslave millions more and they worship them.
Well make it equally as bad to worship the Soviets and Imperial British, which a lot of people still do, and they might see some sense.

It's entirely possibly depending on what you've read.

Of course, you can always be intellectual dishonest with yourself and actively search for shit supporting your shit. But at the end of the day it's a matter of justification.

Someone who rarely read stuff contradicting his world-view and spend all their time on metapedia is perfectly justifiable to think that the nazis where the shit.

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I don't know which is worse, Naziboo or Commie boo.

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>>415289
>American revolutionaries
>Righteous

"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."

I know of no new offices erected in America in the present reign, except those of the Commissioners of the Customs and their dependents. Five Commissioners were appointed, and four Surveyors General dismissed; perhaps fifteen to twenty clerks and under officers were necessary for this board more than the Surveyors had occasion for before: Land and tide waiters, weighers, etc. were known officers before; the Surveyors used to increase or lessen the number as the King’s service required, and the Commissioners have done no more. Thirty or forty additional officers in the whole Continent, are the Swarms which eat out the substance of the boasted number of three millions of people.

>>415363
Fuck off britshit

>>415390
Have an American tell you the truth instead, then :^)

https://radishmag.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/american-rebellion/

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Fat larper who had a steampunk wedding and chimps out about "functionality" while being obsessed with outdated weapons.

Don't get me wrong, I like swords too, but he is a typical "haha, the katana is inferior to western swords because of functionality; now I'm going to cream myself over the wester katan... i mean gross messer >;^)"


The only things swords are good for are sparing and cutting shit for fun in your back yard, even dressing up for fun is fine.
This historical recreation shit is cringe AF though

He's a loser faggot but he's cool inside of that category, at least he doesn't disrespect people

>>414991
He doesn't claim to be an expert and he does pretty good and concise reviews. He's entertaining (mostly) and does no harm provided you take what he says with a pinch of salt and realize that it's just his opinion. Also, he vaguely reminds me of that one guy from the video game Mercenaries, so that's a plus too.

Sartre had better ingredients, but he fucked everything up so incredibly bad.

There is a reason he is basically ignored in modern academia.


Camus is closer to self help than philosophy, but at least some of the things he said are useful and still meaningful.

One didn't want to cloak the reality of the gulags from the west. What do you think?

Camus by far

Sartre was a hack

>>414647
If you mean mongols that were /cg/ or /tg/ level bloodlusted then, yes, sure.

If you mean Mongols that aren't retarded and actually have their own economic welfare in mind, no. There are far greener pastures and far easier to rape women for the mongols to prey on without having to lug around a bunch of Chinese and Persian artillerymen to destroy each and every one of Europe's hundreds of stone castles.

A mongol SCOUTING PARTY devastated eastern europe

Fuck do you think?

It'd be a bigger stomp than China

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Probably, but not easily. It took them half a century to fully subjugate China, and I imagine Europe would have been no less difficult. But the Mongols were by far the most advanced military force in their day, combining steppe tactics, just about every piece of siege technology that existed in Asia, and unmatched discipline and leadership. They could easily wipe out any European army; the Poles and Hungarians were completely crushed by them. Sieges would have been more difficult, but with their technological capabilities there's no reason to think they couldn't overcome European defenses as they did in China and the Middle East. Hell, they even managed to capture the supposedly impenetrable fortress of Alamut.

Plus, the Mongols always had a great ability to exploit tensions between their enemies, and Europe was absolutely filled with tension. The idea that Europeans would all get together to kick them out is a fantasy; when the Mongols were slaughtering the Hungarians, the Austrians rather then offering any help actually took advantage of the Hungarian's weakness by stealing a few of their provinces and straight-up mugging their king. Plus that this was the same century that the West sacked Constantinople. The Mongols probably could have easily used European tensions against each other just as they did with Chinese dynasties and the Muslims.

Another idea, that the Mongols would have been stopped by Europe's forests, makes no sense. The Mongols had no problems with the semi-tropical climate of southern China.

Still, Europe probably had some the best fortifications in the world, and the decentralized nature of European states would have made them hard to capture. That would have been the hardest thing for them to overcome. They might have also had trouble with Europe's seas; naval power was the one thing the Mongols lacked.

They could only have taken Europe so long as they were as committed to it as they were with China, and used every resource they had.

>>414602
It was an interesting empire, to say the least, with a lot of contradictions. It flitted from Liberal Democracy to an Autocratic Stratocracy, an ally of democratic movements in China to its greatest enemy, its economy both capitalist and oligarchic. Few nations have changed in such a bipolar fashion within the span of less than a century as the Japanese Empire between 1868 and 1945, and it's really interesting in that respect.

>>414602
I feel bad that that hopeful outlook Rurouni Kenshin gives us about the Meiji era turned into shit

>>414602
>Trade with China via Korea
>Invade them three different times
>Develop based on Chinese culture
>fight four different wars with them and try to make them japanese
>Opened up by the US
>bomb pearl harbor
>Based their military on the Germans
>Attack them at Tsingtao while they were busy in Europe
>Bought their early navy from Britain
>Invade them while they're busy in Europe
Is there a nation as prone to betrayal as Japan?

>>414545
>it does raise some valid points
Like what?

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So stupid it makes me rage every time.

>>414545
>vagueness surrounding the construction of so called "Ancient" constructions

more easily explained by ayy lmao's?

Yes. It was a portrait of your mom

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>>414408
Yes, she was a beautiful lady.

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>>414399
This one did.

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>>414391
They're all tripping over themselves to be the most slave-like and the most oppressed

>>414391
>Why do Christians have this "I'm a better Christian than you" mentality?

Thats literally an American thing, all those Americans and their silly denominations are just retarded. Nobody in the Orthodox world considers himself a "better Christian" that concept doesn't exist in Orthodox Christianity, and im sure it doesn't exist in Catholic Christian countries as well.

>>414419
>Jesus himself said that the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven would be like a slave to the rest.

Yeah the greatest in the material of Ceaser world be like the slave to the religiously great but materially poor slave.

That combined with the fact that many Christians are Christians by inertia or convenience than by conviction

>>413839
>finland is the heir to the roman empire

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that's fucking awesome.

all Feudal states were like that, only difference is that whereas the kingdoms managed to consolidate their state, the empire just split up to several different kingdoms.

>>413922
might as well

>>413839
>Finland is heir of RE
>Finland has claims on whole Europe
Kek

>>413007
>She soon opened a hospital, a chapel, a pharmacy and an orphanage on its grounds. Elisabeth and her nuns worked tirelessly among the poor and the sick of Moscow. She often visited Moscow’s worst slums and did all she could to help alleviate the suffering of the poor.

>In 1918, Lenin ordered the Cheka to arrest Elisabeth. They then exiled her first to Perm, then to Yekaterinburg, where she spent a few days and was joined by others: the Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich Romanov; Princes Ioann Konstantinovich, Konstantin Konstantinovich, Igor Konstantinovich and Vladimir Pavlovich Paley; Grand Duke Sergei's secretary, Fyodor Remez; and Varvara Yakovleva, a sister from the Grand Duchess's convent. They were all taken to Alapayevsk on 20 May 1918, where they were housed in the Napolnaya School on the outskirts of the town.
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>>413010

>At noon on 17 July, Cheka officer Pyotr Startsev and a few Bolshevik workers came to the school. They took from the prisoners whatever money they had left and announced that they would be transferred that night to the Upper Siniachikhensky factory compound. The Red Army guards were told to leave and Cheka men replaced them. That night the prisoners were awakened and driven in carts on a road leading to the village of Siniachikha, some 18 kilometres (11 miles) from Alapayevsk where there was an abandoned iron mine with a pit 20 metres (66 feet) deep. Here they halted. The Cheka beat all the prisoners before throwing their victims into this pit, Elisabeth being the first. Hand grenades were then hurled down the shaft, but only one victim, Fyodor Remez, died as a result of the grenades.

>According to the personal account of Vasily Ryabov, one of the killers, Elisabeth and the others survived the initial fall into the mine, prompting Ryabov to toss in a grenade after them. Following the explosion, he claimed to have heard Elisabeth and the others singing an Orthodox hymn from the bottom of the shaft.[5] Unnerved, Ryabov threw down a second grenade, but the singing continued. Finally a large quantity of brushwood was shoved into the opening and set alight, upon which Ryabov posted a guard over the site and departed.
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>>413015

>On 8 October 1918, White Army soldiers discovered the remains of Elisabeth and her companions, still within the shaft where they had been murdered. Despite having lain there for almost three months, the bodies were in relatively good condition. Most were thought to have died slowly from injuries or starvation, rather than the subsequent fire. Elisabeth had died of wounds sustained in her fall into the mine, but before her death had still found strength to bandage the head of the dying Prince Ioann with her wimple. With the Red Army approaching, their remains were removed further east and to China before being ultimately taken to Jerusalem, where they were laid to rest in the Church of Maria Magdalene.

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>>412854
>atrophy dorces them too
what are you trying to say here?

>>412875
Humans are forced to fight eachother.

>>412854
>This isnt possible because good and evil are defined by us.
So is neutrality

Y-Yeah...well.....at least I'm not dead

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>>412476
With optimism

Thats a naive and cynical view of religious belief