So I'm doing an essay on just how "fair" the trials of the Spanish/ Portuegese inquisitorial tribunals were and I just wondered your thoughts were on the matter /his/?
>>277260
Inquisitors routinely brought in Jews, women, common folk and tortured them for confessions of heresy, witchcraft, or Jewery.
Then they killed them.
>>277260
Not fair but much fairer than people think
The death toll was probably less than the common cold
>>277309
And by "routinely killed", I assume you mean " killed 1250 people in 3 centuries". You're more likely to be shot by a toddler in the US than to die from the inquisition.
Building my playlist, post the best history metal you know.
Pic related: god-tier concept album about the Roman Empire
inb4 Sabaton
>>277282
I already added their discography.
Also I did post to /mu/, no response.
This is the map of Ottoman Empire
i like it
>>277215
Did the Turks discover the American mainland or just Cuba? I've forgotten Erdogan's teachings.
>>277215
Needs moar butifel colonies.
Is god real?
I don't know.
Can you repeat the question?
I don't know.
Was there ever a time when the Irish were capable of pushing the english's shit in? Is there any possible alt history where Ireland today could realistically be independent?
I'm Scottish but I've heard every "we don't need the brits" story a million times and wonder if there's a similar attitude toward Ireland in history.
In the early medieval era the Irish were comparable to the Anglo-Saxons in population, not enough to subjugate them but surely enough to defend their land. Unfortunately the Irish were pretty awful at uniting their land so it was a little easier for the Norman-led English to establish a foothold in Ireland, which leads to everything else.
I don't know the specifics of Irish history but i'd argue the one shot of the Irish uniting would be due to defending against the Vikings, like the Anglo-Saxons did. I don't know much about Irish history but i'd say the reason they didn't unite permanently was because they didn't have the established cultural heritage, which Bede cultivated for England.
>>277158
I always imagined if an anti-brit leader would come from anywhere it'd have been in the Northern Counties, seeing as how poorly the irish up there were treated.
It's just a fun autist fantasy to imagine one of the families getting following and uniting ireland under a desire to be independent. Interesting to think how things would be today.
>>277139
>Was there ever a time when the Irish were capable of pushing the english's shit in?
Pretty much sixth to tenth century.
>Is there any possible alt history where Ireland today could realistically be independent?
Sure, just think of an althis in which an ard ri actually manages to create a stable monarchy and state for the whole island. A united front combined with well picked alliances (like Scotland and France) would probably be well enough to carry an island nation to the present day independent.
Two questions:
Why do the Russian people love Stalin? Of course, in the West, he is portrayed as an evil dictator, who killed millions. However, by his own people, we are seeing more and more admiration of the man.
http://carnegieendowment.org/files/stalin_puzzle.pdf
Second, can we assume that all "evil dictators" were actually evil? After having watched The Greatest Story Never Told, it seems we cannot make even basic assumptions about the character of someone like Hitler. Think about it, why would such a powerful man partake in the wanton murder of so many people without reason, simply because they are evil? This makes no sense. Are we simply too used to seeing things from the Western point of view, that it skews our perceptions of the reality of history?
>>277076
People in Russia admire Stalin because he saved the USSR from the nazis who planned on enslaving half the slavs and starving to death the other half, this was after the butchery they inflicted in the territories they overran.
Only poor russians love Stalin. Rest know that he was a murdering psychopath.
>>277076
You're right, it's very complex. I think the main reasons they love him are that he won the war and that he was able to bring the Soviet Union onto the world stage as a major player. I also kind of think that as people who actually remember how shitty he was die off, more people will just remember what they are told. Stalin is a symbolic figure in their history and was in charge during one of the most tumultuous events in Russian history.
As for the moral character of dictators, it's hard to tell. If you look at some dictator in South America or the Middle East, I think a lot of them are pretty much mob bosses who are extremely corrupt.
If we're looking at World War Two dictators, it's a bit different. It's hard to say hat any one person is just plain evil. These people did not live their lives in a vacuum. At the same time, just because you can understand the reasoning behind why they did what they did, it doesn't make it right.
What was crucial for a successful coup d'état?
>>277028
off the top of my head: political leverage; support of the military
>>277028
disarmament of the civil population
>>277051
Or support of a large part of the civil population.
Why do people not treat the symbol of the rising sun with the same revulsion as they would with the Nazi Swastika?
Why does everyone treat the Pacific theater as a none issue?
>>276960
If you were Korean, or Chinese, or Vietnamese you probably would. Likewise I'm sure those cultures don't give a fuck about the swastika.
>>276969
This
>>276969
I'm on Guam.
I can walk around with a Japanese imperial seal on my bag, and no one bats an eye.
So is the spookmaster actually taken seriously here or is he just a meme-tier philosopher
>edgy, irrefutable philosophy
>made Marx so butthurt he wrote 500 pages of ad hominem
>all those drawings of him
>the very word 'spook'
Perfect alchemy for a meme.
>>276957
>made Marx so butthurt he wrote 500 pages of ad hominem
Huh-wha?
>>276963
>Later, Marx and Engels wrote a major criticism of Stirner's work. The number of pages Marx and Engels devote to attacking Stirner in (the unexpurgated text of) The German Ideology, in which they derided him as "Sankt Max" (Saint Max), exceeds the total of Stirner's written works.[35] As Isaiah Berlin has described it, Stirner "is pursued through five hundred pages of heavy-handed mockery and insult".[36] The book was written in 1845–1846, but not published until 1932. Marx's lengthy, ferocious polemic against Stirner has since been considered an important turning point in Marx's intellectual development from idealism to materialism.
>The critique is a polemical tirade filled with ad hominem attacks and insults against Stirner (Marx calls him a "petty bourgeois individualist intellectual").[4]
He never published it, probably because he realized he hadn't refuted a single of Stirner's theses
Were the Romans unique in having a public entertainment system devoted to fatal combat?
Seriously its like a gorier WWE except you actually own the people in it.
>>276722
Romans were degenerated psychopaths and the Greeks are the real Jews of the world.
Both of them should be annihilated and erased from history forever.
>>276722
No. For one thing the Greeks have a Monomakos: which is a boxing/wrestling match that can be deadly.
For another, the guys that came after them: the Medieval Europeans, had Tournaments. Early medieval tournaments were pretty deadly, especially the Melee.
I'm pretty sure that contrary to popular beliefs most of these fights weren't to the death. I have no sources though so completely ignore this comment.
What is the impact of writing systems on history? Not the existence of writing, but the merits of one system versus another.
Is it possible the part of the reason the West came to dominate the world is that it's (latin alphabetic) writing system was superior?
For one, I'd imagine it's massively faster to learn to read and write with an alphabet vs. something logographic like Chinese in particular. Back in the day where people mostly would have just had a few years of schooling (if any) that would have given the West a big leg up (having a literate population).
It's also difficult (to the point of impossibility?) to print using movable type in many writing systems. How many hundreds/thousands of different 'blocks' would you need to print a Japanese book? Is it even possible to print something like Arabic? Even something as 'simple' as Korean I can't imagine being possible to implement in a typewriter. Hell, even older computers wouldn't be able to display or deal with any of these languages.
>>276486
>Is it possible the part of the reason the West came to dominate the world is that it's (latin alphabetic) writing system was superior?
1) What makes a writing system superior? I can flat out state that Chinese Characters are superior because they are logographic as opposed to a phonetic representation of a word. Meaning two foreigners who can not speak the same language but when they write in Chinese characters, they'd understand each other.
So what is superiority then?
2) False analogy, the Latin Alphabetic writing system came to dominate because of the West not the other way around
The Latin alphabet is just a script. In English, it has mixed advantages and disadvantages. For one, English spelling is horribly irregular due to mixed linguistic influences, but this also allows the history of a word to be easily traced to its linguistic roots. Logograms like Chinese Hanzi seem really perplexing to a Latin alphabet writer, but children seem to learn it by rote quite easily, however, for a country like China with many dialects it makes communication much easier between them than a phonetic script would, and also makes written language slower to change over time. I would also argue it's aesthetically much more beautiful, and adds subtle nuances to meaning when you can examine a logogram and see it's composed of smaller logograms squished together. It also enables their language to express tones, which adds semantic depth. In English tones can be ignored for the most part, although when it comes to stress, nouns are stressed on the first syllable and verbs at the end, usually.
Interesting little thought experiment on if English wrote with Chinese-style characters:
http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm
>No french-speaking first world South Vietnam
It hurts to live.
>No French-speaking first world united Indochina
It hurts to just be
>>277145
have france devolve its empire like the british did after ww2
+
not lose to the commies at dienbienphu
So what did he get wrong this time?
>>276429
Is this that history pod everyone listens to?
I never figured why people are so hot on history podcasts when there's audiobooks lying all around written by scholars and researchers who took like 3-5 years to research the subject.
I have listened to Mike Duncan's stuff but he takes 3-5 years just covering a fucking subject.
>>276434
recommend any audiobooks? or sites for that matter
>>276429
He's very, very, very good at making history interesting.
As a popularizer, he's educated enough to have a decent grasp on what he's talking about, and is an excellent place to start on almost any topic.
A great example would be the episode American Peril, which covers the Spanish American War and the reconciliation and contradictions of the United States as a colonial power.
Podcasts like Stuff You Missed In History are hot garbage though.
If you want a better explanation, here's a recent article.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dan-carlin-hardcore-history_5643b5b5e4b08cda34875511
Where do Kurds come from?
What were they up to 100 years ago?
I hear that they're the most victimised group in Iraq and that they're not Arab, meaning that they're native Mesopotamian, is this true?
I support a Kurdish state over al historically Kurdish land such as Turkey, Iraq and Syria. Biji Kurdistan, truly the most promising and liberal group in the Middle East. Christians are irrelevant in the Middle East I'm guessing ever since Islam took over.
I understand that they've struggled for independence for centuries and were subjected to harsh treatment from those around them but how comes that never stopped them from breeding 30 million Kurdish people by today?
>>276354
They come from Iran.
100 years ago they all either lived in the Ottoman Empire or in Persia.
They're not native Mesopotamian, they're Iranian.
>>276362
Then why do they live not in Iran? The're the only real ethnic group living in Mesopotomia that I know of, everyone else is part of some fake extinct minority.
>>276354
Poo in Loo
Post information or images relating to Egyptian and Sumerian/Akkadian Art.
pic related is from the Tomb of Ramses VI of the New Kingdom of Egypt
>>276281
>Tomb of Ramses VI
2 headed figure
>>276284