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Immediately before its dissolution in 1806 was the HRE even important? I mean did it really serve any important function at that time or was it just an artifact of the medieval era?
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>Austrian Netherlands
gets me errytime
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>>315255
It was part of Austria, the most powerful country of Europe
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>>315280
This map intrigues me every time I look at it.
Why didn't euros convert their northern African colonies? Turning Algeria into French speaking Catholics and Egypt into English speaking protestants etc
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They tried.
As it turns out, not that many people care what the missionaries have to say.
In the rare situations that they did, it usually caused more harm than good.
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>>315202
Because 90% of their populations didn't die to plague.
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>>315202
Maybe Muslims are not keks?
What makes the Jewish faith and history unique?
I know its a huge topic. There are many branches of Judaism including esoteric and occult branches like kabbalah but none the less.
What traits of judaism make it distinct from all other world views/ways of conduct/ways of constructing and thinking of society?
How does Judaism think about beauty and aesthetics?
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>>315059
>What makes the Jewish faith and history unique?
Being persecuted by just about everyone.
Also being both an ethnicity and a religion.
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>How does Judaism think about beauty and aesthetics?
All about the shape, feel and metals that make up the shekel, ahi.
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>>315059
>What makes Judaism special?
Christianity and islam
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crossbows are superior to longbows
if you disagree you are literally perfidious Albion
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>>315000
checking those numbers m8
anyway
crossbow useful for short range combat
longbow - useful for long range combat
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Crossbows are better if you have more money than labor.
Longbows are better if you have more labor than money.
England happened to be a poorfag nation that had to use a peasant levy instead of mercenaries.
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>>315030
It's not that expensive to build a crossbow
How do I into Victoriana? What are some good overall texts?
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V2 etc
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>>316180
Already done that part
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>>316180
Best Paradox game.
When is V3 coming?
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What if Sulla actually decided to kill Julius Caesar during the proscription?
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>>314759
Pompey'd probably pull off a similar stunt, but due to lack of a legacy, have the Republic come back for a little while longer before some other opportunist rose up. Antony maybes.
>Emperors are now called Antonions
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>>314759
The republic probably would have lasted a few more decades.
It was inevitably on a course towards despotism. Sulla proved that more than anyone.
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>>314771
Without Caesar I have my doubts Antony would even be remembered these days,
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Hi /his/, HS Senior here. I've always loved history and have decided to major in it at college. Now, because of this I am being bombarded by questions from others like, "What job can you get with your degree?" or, "What marketable skills will you get?" I know that there is more to university than preping for a job and learning "valuable skill", but I want to have a way to answer these questions. So, history majors, how do/did you respond to them?
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Eh, the job market is being oversaturated with degree holders; sooner or later, they'll all be as worthless as a history degree.
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>>314723
Nigger just learn a trade and get history textbooks
There a whole college education
Do you really think a professor lecturing at you all day is gonna help you advance along your interest?
The only other thing I'd add is making yourself write papers since that actually is useful
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>>314754
>the old "get a trade" meme
Hope you enjoy being tied-down to a single blue collar industry because you have no transferable skills.
Even in today's degree-saturated world a degree is a bare minimum for advancement in the corporate sector.
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ITT: Historical keks.
>Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine
>In 1660 Barbara Villiers, his wife of one year, became mistress to King Charles II. The king created Palmer Baron Limerick and Earl of Castlemaine in 1661, but the title was limited to his children by Barbara, which made it clear to the whole court that the honour was for her services in the King's bedchamber rather than for his in the King's court. This made it more of a humiliation than an honour.
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The three sons of Phillip 4.
Their wives were caught sleeping with knights.
There was also Claudius.
>On 14 April 1659 he marriedBarbara Villiersagainst his family's wishes; his father predicting at the time of the wedding that she would make him one of the most miserable men in the world. Roger was a quiet, studious, bookish man and a devout Roman Catholic while his wife was an accomplished sexual athlete
He asked for it. Who would think it would be a good idea to marry a slut?
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>>314694
Hey, one of the wives were just covering up for the other two. Don't drag the Burgundian sisters THAT hard.
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>>314704
You never know. Her husband just didn't divorce her because he wanted her inheritance.
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So enables a society or civilization to breed philosophers and philosophies, /his/?
Why did nations like Egypt, Persia, Greece, the Mongols, France, and America breed philosophers whereas others like Zulus, Aztecs, Carthage, and (independent) Scotland did not?
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>>314611
they probably did breed philosophers. Then they were forgotten due to the lack of writing or loss/destruction of said writing.
Other than that, probably luck.
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Only Greece had great Philosophers. Maybe China before the Emperor of Qin decided to destroy philosophy schools,
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>>314611
>Egypt
>Mongols
>philosophers
Do you have down syndrome?
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Was Christianity a revolt against Roman values? Did Christian values undermine The Roman Empire? (Nietzschean slave morality vs. master morality)
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>Nietzschean
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>>314519
I don't know
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Christian Ethics are similar to Stoic Ethics.
A stoic sage and a saint would behave similarly.
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Okay so let me get this straight, the Soviet Union adopted state capitalist policies and they still collapsed and suffered economically?
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>>314457
It didn't fix the tension with ethnreligious minorities, the repressions of freedoms, and the already-established discontent with the regime. Gorbachev's reforms with failures because it was too little, too late. It only made them want and demand more changes.
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>>314475
That's not what happened. A poll was taken throughout the USSR, right before Yeltsin's illegal seizure of power and repression of protesters, and the vast majority of people said the USSR should stay as is.
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>>314535
>Yeltsin's illegal seizure of power
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>yfw you realized God exists.
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mfw he doesnt
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>tfw he doesn't but he should
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I was ecstatic when I had my first vision of God. I was high as shit on mushrooms and I forgot most of it when I came down.
Then I had a vision while sober, and that turned my life around.
Jesus is risen, /pol/. Bow a knee to your Lord.
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So, who exactly were the Hyksos? Hurrians? Semites? Indo-Europeans?
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>>314361
Jews.
Or for a non-meme answer, proto-Greeks.
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>proto-Greeks
Dude what
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>>314361
Huns
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"Nietzsche was interesting in a lot of ways. He was really the first thinker who forced us to deeply question religion and society. I don't think his story has ever been told like it should be."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_uDlBhjvzQ
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>>314325
Gentle reminder that Jimmy Franco is more educated, accomplished, and intelligent than you are
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>>314338
>dumb fuck wants to a Blood Meridian film adaptation
>educated
Nah
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>>314325
I mean a Nietzsche film would be neat but uh damn that faggot is ignorant
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I don't want to come off as a troll but all of philosophy apart from Hume and Stirner and Socrates seems like unremitting bullshit or just opinions repackaged as authoritative because they come from the academic classes.
Whenever i look at Reddit Philosophy (I'm sorry), I see nothing but a stream of spooks. e.g. "What is the good life? Well I have figured it out, assuming you instantly believe all my axioms!" I don't mean a reddit user claimed it, it's usually a link to an Ivy League / oxford professor who talks this shit!
And this Rawls / Nozick debate (which I skimmed over on wikipedia and heard second hand): Rawls makes up some axioms, says it leads to the perfect society, and then Nozick picks a hole in it and we all pretend he's smart? Are you fucking kidding me? Why is ethics even a thing? It all fucking depends on the axioms ffs, that's it!
Also I hate to say it but the Greeks and Romans get their balls licked so hard it's not even funny. It's laughable but I'm going to say it: People who do "American Studies" (if universities even offer it, which they don't, which says a lot) should get as much respect as people who do Classics. But no, the middle / upper classes need greek / latin to be fashionable. When Aristoculus says "Being good is good but being good is not good, it is bad" then that's supposedly a sign of insane wisdom that you'd have to be a barbarian not to love above everything else. Give me a break. Appeal to authority up the wazoo. Though I do appreciate that plato etc were obviously very smart, and so on.
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Also history (the academic profession) is just (and I'm not an SJW so this pains me to say) Old Big Authoritative White Men Praising And Hyping Old Big Authoritative Dead White Men With Grand And Barely Falsifiable Statements And A Boatload Of Stamp Collecting. Yeah there's the SJW variant as well, but that's what history departments are as a whole. Stop this bullshit pls.
Also the standard answer from lit: "Unfalsifiablity as a criterion for worth is an unfalsifiable conjecture!!!!" Ok then, but why does Ayn Rand get so much crap thrown at her while X philosopher gets their balls licked while being twice as outlandish? Nothing to do with political fashions... (I've read nothing of Rand, substitute anyone else if you want).
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good post, but I have nothing to add
bump
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>>314245
>Also history (the academic profession) is just (and I'm not an SJW so this pains me to say) Old Big Authoritative White Men Praising And Hyping Old Big Authoritative Dead White Men With Grand And Barely Falsifiable Statements And A Boatload Of Stamp Collecting. Yeah there's the SJW variant as well, but that's what history departments are as a whole. Stop this bullshit pls.
If you aren't an SJW you definitely don't have any understanding of history as an academic study.