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I must unite the Greek people under my empire.
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I must the Libertarian peoples under one flag
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>>275069
>Proceeds to conquer Persia instead
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>>275069
Too fucking late son
I always knew you were a faggot
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What language is written on this pyramid? It was made in Egypt. All of my searches for ancient Egyptian languages have come up with hieroglyphs which do not match the marks. Can someone help me with this?
Picture 1
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Is Nostratic real? Why or why not?
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>>274882
It is plausible, makes more sense to me than some other theories.
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>putting Afro-Asiatic and Indo-European that far apart when they have the same word for horn
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/%E1%B8%B1er-
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Proto-Semitic/qarn-
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>>274985
Oddly enough, the page for the Proto-Semitic word gives the possible Indo-European cognate with a link to it, but the page for *ker- in PIE only defines it as 'to grow' or 'to plait', or as an alternate reconstruction of *kerh-, which it defines as 'head, top', although some of the descendant words do mean 'horn'.
Why did he kill Philosophy?
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>>274868
To guide mankind beyond philosophy. Wittgenstein was a philosophical ubermensch.
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>>274868
readers of Plato killed philosophy
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>>274891
this
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Was the bombing of the King David Hotel the first act of modern terrorism?
If not, where would you truncate and consider it to be?
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>>274833
This is an outrage. Get out of here with your anti-Semitic bullshit. Does this look like /pol/ to you? There is no place for your kind here.
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>>274861
Irgun were the only people with balls to stand up the eternal anglo, I'm in a way proud of this.
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>>274833
No, terrorism has always been around, check out these crazy Germans from WWI
> http://www.npr.org/2014/02/25/282439233/during-world-war-i-germany-unleashed-terrorist-cell-in-america
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Was the Pillar of Fire, one of Moses' miracles, actually a nuke dropped by aliens? I could understand a primitive slave interpreting it as the divine.
This makes a lot of sense if you assume the pyramids were built by aliens, and there was an alien civil war in Egypt, and one side issues the equivalent of the emancipation proclamation.
I also think the burning bush may have been a hologram terminal or user interface, thus to a primitive who only knows light as fire, a hologram would seem like fire that does not burn. What was interpreted as the bush could have either been the projection apparatus, or part of the graphic user interface that Moses did not understand.
I think the plagues describe various war crimes and atrocities done by either side of the aliens in the Egyptian alien civil war.
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>>274486
>Was the Pillar of Fire, one of Moses' miracles, actually a nuke dropped by aliens?
Great question!
>This makes a lot of sense if you assume the pyramids were built by aliens, and there was an alien civil war in Egypt, and one side issues the equivalent of the emancipation proclamation.
It sure does!
>I also think the burning bush may have been a hologram terminal or user interface, thus to a primitive who only knows light as fire, a hologram would seem like fire that does not burn. What was interpreted as the bush could have either been the projection apparatus, or part of the graphic user interface that Moses did not understand.
>I think the plagues describe various war crimes and atrocities done by either side of the aliens in the Egyptian alien civil war.
Interesting ideas!
Can you find any evidence to support your ideas?
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amusing meem
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Did the Christmas truce of 1914 between British and German really happen or is it just a "nice" story for Christmas? If you do not know the myth, on Christmas day, on the battlefield between British and German soldiers on the Western Front, the two made a temporary truce and began to play a game of football, then once the game was finished they began fighting again. Some say that it is a myth and others take it as history.
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It was staged propaganda by the Germans to beat the Allies. You're correct.
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>>274340
It is fact. God damn Americans.
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Why would the Christmas Truce be a myth?
There were lots of Christmas truces, there were lots of non-Christmas truces. Trench warfare was a miserable existence, and no solider wanted to die in a battle of attrition. It was unlikely either side could advance or have a decisive victory through combat, so often both sides were content to minimize losses through truces, as long as there was no change in the lines.
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So how many of my fellow /his/torians are currently studying history at a university?
Post your university
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>>274241
I have 5 credit hours left before my bachelors.
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Vivat, Cresceat, Floreat Universitas Tartuensis in Aeternum!
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Astra castra, numen lumen.
Six more months!
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How and why did Ethiopia succeed in resisting European colonization until 1935 when the rest of Africa was taken so quickly?
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>>274204
Because although they both have dark skin, Ethiopians are a different race than the common sub-Saharan African.
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This again? Ethiopia has never been isolated like the other african tribes, they had structure and civilization.
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>>274213
Validate your argument with more than race or fuck off to /pol/ where that kind of reasoning is excusable, race is a lazy excuse in isolation. What about their race made them successful? Give data, prove your argument.
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Let's discuss the hypothetical Soviet invasion of Western Europe in 1985.
-let's presume nuclear and chemical weapons won't be used
-let's presume Soviets manage to achieve surprise
How would this war go? Would NATO be able to stop Soviet advance?
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NATO would win, especially since they'd have USA support
They'd probably be freedom riots and rebellions in the USSR too, a war that large would be bigger than WW2
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http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000500655.pdf
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>>274122
Care to explain why would NATO win?
Soviets would have advantage in number and equipment early on. I also said that you should presume they will achieve strategic surprise.
I mean I'm not saying Soviets would definitely win, but it's not ''NATO wins'' by default.
In your opinion, what caused the fall of Rome?
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Rampant avarice and debauchery
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Intellectual and scientific stagnation desu.
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There is the only one empire.
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Have they stopped shitting on the streets yet?
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>China
>one consecutive empire
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Reminder that religion was BTFO by Russel's Teapot, and Betrand Russel in general
> The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. When you hear people in church debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings.
>here are a great many ways in which, at the present moment, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts of people undeserved and unnecessary suffering. And of course, as we know, it is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy."
>Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
>The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.
>The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress without which human society would stand still or retrogress.
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Wew, I don't even know what to say, I thought the same crap when I was 8 years old. Engine of progress? Set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness? Just a senile degenerate spouting inane shit.
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You forgot an even more important concept by Russell, the great turkey problem
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>>273717
That image is absolutely hilarious.
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Nothing is forever. A bitter fact that man must face, gnawing at his conscience in moments of quiet thought. It is the reason that he procreates, to further a line of his blood. It is the reason that he went about building the first cities and learning the first writings, to create something that stood well beyond his years. Perhaps more than women, land, wealth or power, perhaps not, it is the reason for those who rise among us and lead us to glory and greatness do so. What we have is never enough to what we can have, what we can attain.
Forever. Found deep in the consciousness of the ancient Hellas, whom took to the book of Homer as Muslim to Holy Quran, or Christian to Bible. Not a prophet of God or Gods, the man Homer. He was a prophet still, a speaker wise in how might men attain immortality, to be spoken of in years to come and for whose behavior and exploits might be imitated in centuries yet to arrive. A man who seemed to still stand despite his death, though those he stood within were not of his blood, not of his faith, not even of his origins.
Such a man was the Roman Empire of the East. Not ruling from Rome, not centered upon Latin blood, not speaking Latin nor even praying to Rome's Gods. Yet they were Rome. A different land, a different people, a different world. And yet Rome lingered, as changed as a hairless crying kitten might change into a muscular, roaring lion. And one would fear, change into a toothless frail old beast. To those of the Middle East or of Europe in the Dark ages and early Middle Ages, the Roman Empire of the East must have seemed something that was to be forever, a capital held by walls not even God's Angels could breach.
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And yet it was not immortal, not dipped in the river styx but up to its heel. Countless barbarians raging across its land, coming to batter shield and axe upon the gates of Constantinople. Eastern Sassanians, Arabs, and Turks existing as the greatest foes of the state, so too coming to clash spear and arrow upon the walls of their Capital.
While time had come to dilute the presence of ancient Rome and Greece, that indomitable spirit of the Eastern Roman's ancestors stood strong, and in every case, though land would be lost [Perhaps forever, but what is forever?], it was never the defeat of the Empire. Tactics were adjusted, failing Emperors removed, alliances made, and eternally the successor to the eternal city went on.
Yet nothing is forever.
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>>273715
first for ottomans
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>tfw 1453
Is there a precedent in Roman history for the current situation with ISIS in Europe? I.e. random attacks by an uniformed enemy that can't just be attacked in the field.
I wonder if there's something we can learn from Rome. What would someone like Crassus do about it?
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>>273711
Drink a pint of Gold
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>>273711
Crassus would sell the refugees as slaves.
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The sengoku jidai