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>>369889
Cuba after the CMC.

>>369889
Britain is still very geopolitically relevant.

You are just comparing it wrongly to the level of power and influence they exhibited while they were a global Empire.

They are still a huge economic and political power, and is a nuclear weapons state.

>>369897
OP didn't say the UK was irrelevant, he said it experienced a massive drop in relevance.

Which it did, the UK went from being THE superpower. The one that set the precedent of what it means to be a superpower for history. The country that the word had to be invented to describe.

Now it's gone from that, to the USA's right hand man, the mere accomplice of their old colony. And France is prime to take that honour at a moment's notice.

>>369815
Read Foucault.

>>369815
Just art and culture became hugely popular, leading to patronage. See things like Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Donatello, Raphael, etc
Patronage provided for artists, musicians, playwrights, authors, etc, but often they would tend towards a bias for their patrons... to keep the money flowing.

Write about how the Renaissance was ridiculously overrated thanks to the enormous influence of its own thinkers, and that while it came with a lot of revolutionary art techniques, Renaissance Humanism was intellectually disastrous and plunged the West into 300 years of intellectual dark ages.

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>>369802
well i can think of Robyn Youngs triology, Brodherhood, crusade and requiem (these are the name in my lauge so they may differ for you sorry) its a bout a boy who gets invitet to the templar and ends upp joining a secret order within the templar and you get to follow him thru his life
and the triolgy of Arn the templar(translateded from my lauged to) not all of these books are about the crusade but a large pice of the books take place in it,
sorry for bad english

>>369802
>sex may last for 10-15 minutes at most
>crusades will be drawn out over multiple centuries

>>369802
>Deus may or may not Vult
kek

Is the Quran itself too biased for you?

>>369667
Try reading the Quran.

>>369691
No. Reading any ancient or medieval source without context is an exercise in masturbation. All you'll get out of it is to be able to say you read it.

>>369659
Being Max Stirner is just a spook.

>>369665
Came here to say this. Stirner is a spook and trying to "be" Stirner is pretty fucking spooky.

>>369665
>>369680
b-but it's a spook i can agree with!

also where to buy fine cigars?

Glorified cheerleader.

>>369666
Glorified motivational speaker

>>369567
>no photographic evidence
>no unbiased primary sources
No, he obviously did not.

>>369228
Boomp

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>>369228

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>>369228
Cyrus to Alexander by Pierre Briant

Definitive book on the arachaemenids.

>>369001
Pirani, Fitzpatrick, Andrle.

>How does it compare to its fellow super power and are there any misconceptions about them that should be cleared up?

Super-power is a pretty bourgeois western conception.

>Was the KGB any different from the CIA?
Conquest, Great Purge. (More like the FBI).

>Was the US as big of a threat as many in the USSR thought?
ha ha ha ha ha ha oh wow.

Read some fucking books first. Pirani, Fitzpatrick, Andrle.

>>369001
>What can /his/ tell me about the USSR?

They did it wrong, like all real world Communists. Also they were very, very bad for everyone.

>After Stalin, were they really the "bad guys"?

According to people on this board who grew up behind the Iron Curtain, yes.

>>369037
>>27939
>When discussing history, please reference credible source material, and provide as much supporting information as possible in your posts.

culture of high infant mortality, dying at 30 and small heda

>>368946
They were closer to the rawness of a world that was not kind, I mean without a reedemer god who forgave all transgression and preached kindness I don't think they could have a peaceful identity.

Peaceful cultures got killed.

Death was all around them. Mothers died often in childbirth, many children did not survive the first few years of their lives, common illnesses that we can easily survive now killed many, and complications from injuries or infections were much more fatal as well. Life was difficult and short, if you couldn't take a blasé view of violence and suffering, you'd go insane.

>>368755
>Did they practice human sacrifice
Classical Athens still did.

>there were too many to do all of them at once.
yh

>How exactly did the Greek's actually deal with all their gods and godesses?
It was less like honoring benevolent protectors and more like appeasing violent bullies
>Did they practice human sacrifice
Sometimes
>How did they decide which Gods to worship
Some cities worshiped all 12 Olympians, others had a patron

>>368755
>How did they decide which Gods to worship
Depends what type of life you led. If you lived off the land than Artemis is a good choice because she is a nature goddess. If you were a fisher or sailor Posidein was a good God. A warrior would worship Ares. If you were sick there were healing Gods.

It was really a personal matter. You could have one or many Gods.

Well

They had a really cool name, at least.

Is it true that most of them settled in Austria?

>>368873
Well, there probably were settlements there but I believe that most of them moved to Italy. Austria got settled by the Bavarii and slavic tribes later on. There were remainders in the Pannonian basin, Crimea, and probably Austria, but they got assimilated/displaced by later invaders.

i believe turks are from central asia

>>368377
>is modern day Turkey originally Ethnic European land?
For the western side, yes, if you consider the Ancient Greeks to be European in a modern sense. The eastern side was dominated by nations in the far east like Persia.

>>368377
Anatolia was originally Greek, yes. The Turkic people came from Central Asia, and with the successful invasion of Anatolia by the Turkic Seljuks, Turks migrated there and established it as their new homeland.

>>368197

Hebrew.

You can make enormous numbers of people butthurt if you know Hebrew.

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>>368123
>Hey Christian-anons. Is having premarital sex immoral?

Were you born stupid or is this just a teenage phase?

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>religion

>>368123
You have to consider that Christ the man was a person of his times. He taught and his followers taught according to the sexual mores of religious Jews two thousand years ago. Since then, a lot of repressive acts by the church have restricted Christian sexuality (forcing priestly celibacy, contrary to Peter's own example comes to mind).

I'd say from a moral point of view, sexual intercourse is intended by God for reasons of procreation and expressing physical love. You should only do that with someone whom you love completely, and are willing to raise a child with. Generally marriages are more stable environments for nurturing long lasting love and raising children.

I think this is a case in which the authors of scripture and the church fathers were using God's authority to preserve the fabric of society. Broken families and fatherless children due to premarital sex is bad in any age.

Take it for what you will. Catholic here, btw.