Did Islamic armies ever have Pikemen?
Don't think so.
>>410248
i've never seen any sources for it but its odd that such a integral infantry strategy was never utilized by such a large part of the world
>>410205
Sure they did.
That's like asking if the Africans ever used bows.
How did Americans get so fat /his/? When did it begin?
Are there any other instances in history where a population became extremely fat?
The closest I can think of are the babies in the Netherlands born after the second world war, who were so deprived in the womb that the way their bodies treated food changed, and many grew up to be very obese.
If you look at the obseity rates in England or any other successful country in Europe they arn't much better than America. Certain states in America are actually leaner than the average country in Europe.
So it's not an American thing it's a developed-country thing. The reason for it is because we have a very fucked up sense of nutrition. For instance we are told that bread, rice, pasta, and grains are what the majority of your calories should come from when that stuff is basically as bad for you as pure sugar. Than we told that butter, egg, greasy meat oil, and fats are bad for you when it should be core of your diet.
>>410071
Fuck off Mr. Paleo
>>410031
Drugs for fattening cows has vicarious effects in the people.
Were the Spanish Muslims mainly white or Berber?
I'm reading Don Quixote, some of Sancho's dialogue implies the old-Christians and Moriscos were the same race
pic unrelated
Race is a social construct. Back when Don Quijote was written it was probably
>are you tan, dark haired and hairy
>then you are mediterranean race
They probably didn't have the idea of White race. That seems to originate from the U.S when they were trying to decide which Europeans they liked and which ones they didn't. I don't mean white as in European I mean white as in the stupid discussions on various forums with bait titles like
> Why are (insert European nationality) considered white?
>>409823
>Arabs
>Visigoths
Come on dude, there's clearly a difference.
>>409823
Because Saracen is an American term?
Which of these theories is more plausible? Would Jesus be white by our standards today?
>>409692
Why does that picture only shows Levantines who are descendants of ""whites"" also?
No, Jesus was in no way a white. He was a Sami, simple as that.
>>409692
Depends on what you consider white
>>409692
Well, by old 19th Century racial theories, Middle-Eastern Semites were Caucasian and therefore technically white. But most people don't consider them white, so he wouldn't be by our standards today; he'd be brown.
>1935
>walk into bar with hot fraülein
>tonight is the night
>her eyes long for the bratwurst in your lederhausen
>suddenly julius streicher walks in
>slaps your fraüleins behind
>wat do?
godmode
>your last name is goldstein
Play my favorite song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBlVg8T3kZU
This a fucking faggot thread
Also join the Red Army and burn down berlin a few years later and then kill/rape as many fagermans as i can to remove the cancer what is fagermans from europe
>>410489
>Joining the Russian infantry and not some allied chair force
Oh shit nigger what are you doing.
People are always talking about historical inaccuracies in movies. What are some of the most historically accurate movies out there? Pic obviously unrelated
>>409404
Tora Tora Tora is pretty accurate.
Which is why its so fucking boring.
>>409430
He's actually got a PhD in History; he knows more than you.
>>409404
There isn't one. Some odious tosser will always complain about the buttons being from the wrong decade or the uniforms being too green or the dirt road being wrong or the crops being wrong or the lighting being too bright.
Pic unrelated...
Maybe, possibly Theirs is the Glory, seeing as most of the actors were real soldiers in the battle it's portraying.
ITT: We talk about morality
1. Are morals relative, absolute or something else? Why?
2. Your religious beliefs?
3. Your political beliefs (conservative/liberal/other)?
3. Why do morals change over time?
>>409200
Morality is an illusion.
>>409200
Science and Math faggot
>/sci/ - Science & Math
>>>/pol/
What are some moments of history where /his/ and /x/ coincide? That is, what are some genuine historical moments that verge on being totally inexplicable, at least without recourse to spooky stories?
>>408363
None. No supernatural survives scrutiny.
There are currently unexplained things that are definitely hard to figure out for sure right now like qualia, though.
The Munich Talmud was the only complete Talmud known to exist and was penned in 1342 AD. In 1553, the pope ordered the burning of all Talmuds but a few printed copies of the Talmud escaped that edict and found their way to England as well as other countries.
In the uncensored editions of the Talmud there follows this important passage
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>>408394
If a human lacked qualia, how would their behavior be different from a normal human?
Is Latin worth learning? How enlightened will I be?
That depends. Are you religious, or do you plan on reading a lot of historical texts?
Cause otherwise the only good it'll do you is reading the engravings on old buildings and learning Romance languages.
Unless you're specializing in that area or are attending a medieval university, can't say it is. I'd learn a language that at least a million people can speak.
I've known a biologist who said he found knowing Latin very useful since all those complicated organism names are easier to remember when you actually know what they mean.
>england had the biggest empire in history
how do we stop this meme
>>407732
winniepedia says the closest to them were the mongols
>>407821
>when the sun never sets on your empire
The same could be said for the Spanish or Portuguese empires.
>>407821
B-b-but the parts that make it bigger than my shitty barbaric homeland's former empire don't count
t. Non-anglo (aka nigger)
philosophy won't make god real
>>407695
are you turning hegel on his head
>>407695
God makes philosophy true, though
DUDE THESIS ANTITHESIS LMAO
What ever happened to speakers of Tungusic languages?
Why are there so few of them and why are they in danger of extinction?
WE
WUZ
QINGZ
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SHET
Probably got sinicized
They wanted the Little Han Cock and sinicized themselved
You wake up. You are now Jefferson Davis, President of the CSA. The year is 1861. You have four years to defeat the Union Army. What do you do?
Ask them nicely to please stop and be friends again
Party like it's 1861
>>406286
apologise and hope I don't get hanged for treason
Is the bible really meant to be interpreted allegorically?
I mean, it was written around a time when everyone believed in anthropomorphic gods and had fanciful creation myths.
Genesis seems to be similar to the Hebrew's closely related neighbor's creation myths, yet there's no signs it was an allegory to them.
And God sure does act like a typical anthropomorphic deity, leading the Israelites against their enemies, demanding animal sacrifices, appearing before Moses, etc
>>406267
depends
Catholics aren't literalists when it comes to the old testament (a catholic who is against evolution and is a young earth creationist is a catholic who doesnt understand their own faith) while most protestants say that yeah all this stuff totally happened
>>406267
The interpretations changed through out the years. For instance Catholics and Orthodox insist that the world flood is an allegory about the world being baptized despite the fact that the concept of baptism didn't exist when the story was formed.
Most likely the flood was at one point considered literally true since it's written like a documentrary (it devotes more time to explaining the exact scale and size of the ship than any other part). Most Jews do not see it as literal today. I think only Protestants think it actually happened.
>>406282
>most protestants are literalists
Lutherans sure are not, mr. Ameriblob. Stop judging all protestants by your hillbilly churches.
Was Soviet Occupation really that bad for the other Slavic countries?
>>405483
>Estonia
>Latvia
>slavic
Was French Occupation really that bad for the Maghrebi countries?
Depends on how bored the soldiers were