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>shit on by STEM majors
>shit on by public opinion
>shit on by Republicans

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>only thing I have an interest in is history
>studying history in uni is a waste of time because lol no job

>india
I guess alot of brits died from the poo trenches

I like the German guys name

Tbf he was one hell of a commander; spent the whole of the war isolated yet he went undefeated

>>313287
They weren't that dark

>>313287
Dunno but people tend to forget that the early middle ages happened at all, just look at any modern depiction of something "medieval" and you will always get something closer to the renaissance than to the fucking middle ages.

>>313482
Honestly, at least in my country, people refer the early feudal middle ages as medieval more than renaissance

>>313283
Yes, but only if the Russian state was created 15.000 years before when the landbridge still existed.

>>313459
Russia is eternal.

>>313283

I HOPE THAT EVENTUALLY, YOU REALIZE HOW MORONIC THAT QUESTION IS.

>>313258

I know Hansen talks a bit about it in general in his works, but it's stuff that's scattered throughout, I can't think of a good reference material solely for the levels of nourishment and other physical statistics.

Malnourished DYELs wouldn't be able to do the shit the romans did.

>>313258
If you were in the army or just living in those times, you were physically fit.
You had to be in order to survive, and if you weren't in peak physical condition you didn't really survive that long

>>313245
>what happened to all those Greek people living and ruling South Asia and how it influenced Indian history? And how did they rule for so long without the natives kicking them out?
Lets start with one thing first.

India is a culture that absorbs all other cultures that come in contact with it, the whole point of Hinduism and any dharmic religion of the era and area is assimilation of any and all opinion it encounters.

The Greeks called the Yavanas were more than likely part of this assimilation and interbred with the local populace until the they diluted away into the population. They were primarily found in Baktria and Archaosia, in and around the areas known in modern times as northern afghanistan, pakistan and kazakhsitan.

Here they became the Indo Greeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Greek_Kingdom

This has all the rest.

>>313306
Are there any modern evidences or influences of Greek cultural elements in modern Indian culture?

>>313332
Its possible, indian history is so saturated by foreign influence that it will be hard to pinpoint any particular instance, but I do know that the name Sikander a popular name in north western india, afghanistan and pakistan was derived from Alexander and meant skillful, also the consumption of wine became popular in those parts due to greek influence during that time, but this maybe conjecture.

Why?

>>313144

If god exists why would he give children leukemia ?

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>>313143
Agreed.

Beyond that, even an evil God should want to be more involved in our day to day lives.

>>312884
How would they have joined the Axis when Hitler literally believed that the Slavs were an untermensch that needed to be killed so the German would have living space?

>>312949

Probably by an extension of the years long cooperation they had historically, including training most of the Wehrmacht's armored corps, as well as providing them shittons of food and fuel.

>>312884

>would they have fucked the US and achieve world domination?

No. Become a dominant power in the Eurasian landmass, to be sure, but they had no long distance ability to project force, especially over the water. It's doubtful they could even knock England out, let alone the U.S.

>>312970
This.

Also remember the US had the atom bomb before the Soviets. If the Axis persisted despite this, they would've been nuked to hell. No mutually assured destruction there.

>>312852
>Why did the Eastern Roman Empire get the name "Byzantine" from scholars?

German scholars in the 16th century wanted to discredit it and undermine its connection with the Roman Empire. It's just something that has stuck to illustrate that there were some major differences between the Empire of antiquity and the medieval one.

>What exactly is or was the Edict of Caracalla?

It was a pronouncement by the emperor Caracella in 212 granting citizenship to all free people within in the Roman Empire. It meant a lot more people were susceptible to certain taxes, but most people had already acquired citizenship by that time. It meant that later in the Empire instead of whether or not you were a citizen, being a rich 'honestior' as opposed to a poor 'humiliores' was what mattered.

>Why did Justinian want to retake the "Roman Lake" despite over-expansion being a major factor in the downfall of the "original" Rome? Was it just ambition, or was there a tactical/economic goal in mind?

Various reasons. Firstly, the Romans like all pre-modern civilisations had no conception of "over-extension" which in many ways is just a meme and ignores the realities on the grounds. It was presumably mostly ambition, and the expectation that the cities of the west would be amicable to Roman control once again since most of them still considered themselves in some way Roman (he was right).

>What caused Christendom to become more tolerated?

Constantine becoming Christian, that was it. As soon as several emperors in turn began to patronise the Church, some aristocrats quickly followed in order to kiss arse. Roman culture, like our own, has lower class people suck up to their social betters which led to a trickle down effect. Before then it had only really been the urban poor.

>How did the Great Schism effect the Empire?

In the long run, it meant that westerners were much less inclined to support the Empire. Though the First Crusade kind of debunks that idea.

>>312852
>Was Caligula actually insane or was he just trying to humiliate the senators?

Hard to tell because of our sparse and hostile sources. He was very probably as mad as a march hare though.

>If they still considered themselves Roman, what was the point of Constantine I declaring Byzantium a "New Rome"? Did he mean "Rome" as in the city rather than the Empire?

Of course he meant it just as the city. Constantine wanted to create a Christian equivalent to Rome which was 'tainted' in his eyes by its pagan associations. Emperors had founded many cities before, so this was not exactly a new policy. What was new was that the new foundation, due to its position, quickly became an incredibly powerful and wealthy city, valuable shit from across the Empire was grabbed and dumped there like obelisks from Egypt (if you go to the hippodrome area in Istanbul there is a needle which records the Romans complaining about what a pain in the arse it was to move down to the Nile).

Literally asking us to do your homework for you.

>>312848
yes

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The Iranian embassy siege 1980 is pretty interesting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege

https://youtu.be/_p4DmuGyehc

>competant
Terrorists that stand against local armed forces on first world countries tend to die quickly

Not a genius, but incredibly conniving and cunning. Good at forging alliances and manuvering himself into power. Like when he gave a bunch of people the wrong day for Lenin's funeral.

>>312862
How did he actually manuver himself into power? Like what were the actual things that he did to achieve his ends?

>>312842

Crafty and treacherous, sure. Smart? That's a stretch. His education was a lot more limited than most of the bolsheviks.

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>>312781
Uh, kinda. Depends om what you think is an ethnicity.
>PopCorn Sutton
He was his own species entirely

Is African-American an ethnicity?

No. Yankees are. Dixies are, but they're pretty spread out and interbred at this point. In the modern world, the ease of travel means that ethnicities dissolve, not form.

>>312722

When they saw OP coming.

>>312722
I'd go with the period of the religious wars in Europe during the 17th century, that left the country bankrupt. This was also combined with a huge inflation coming from the gold from the Indies and several famines and plagues that reduced Spain's population.

If by "become shit" you mean stopped having hegemonical power in Europe...

Spain during the Thirty Years War. The decisive moment was the battle of Rocroi in 1643, where Spain was defeated by France. From then on France dominated Europe.

That lasted until 1815 at Waterloo.

>>312720
Well, one of God's Title "King of Kings" is a ripoff of the Persian "Shahanshah."

Ancient Heebs were Persiaboos you know, when those cunts destroyed Babylon.

Not a rip off; parts of it inspired by maybe

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Judaism obviously originates from an earlier polytheistic religion and was influenced by Zoroastrianism. Most of the similarities that are played up by things like Zeitgeist and Religulous, like Horus having 12 disciples, are bunk though.