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Try mnemonics, family.

>>82871
The Pomodoro method is pretty great for memorizing larger chunks of information in shorter periods of times. You study for 20 minutes, then take a 5-minute break and so on. When you've done 5/6 blocks, you stop for a hour or two and then back again.

>>82871
it all depends on what you have to learn, I assume your being graded on this.

The cool thing about history is you can usually find something about it to relate to, if you have to memorize dates and geography you might not relate until you find something that you connect with.

Don't overlook history because you have to pass a boring class. Find a way to put yourself back then and take it from there.

>Best Roman Emperor
Trajan or Augustus. Honorable mention to Aurelian for reviving the Empire.

>Worst
Caracalla or Commodus for being insane, destructive bastards.

>>82348

Caligula is a given for worst.

Augustus is best.

Augustus for overall best but Trajan, Hadrian, and Diocletion

>>82083
We mostly study middle ages, empire and revolution + WWII in Russia tbqh.

I have seen this gif far too many times for it to work OP

>>82083
damn you got me bro

What do you mean she didn't play a big role.... She played one of the absolute biggest.

Did you know that she is the completed representation of Eve? The New Testament is supposed to be the completed half of what the Old Testament left off of and left uncompleted.

Whenever you see depictions and pictures of Eve, you'll always notice that the snake is above her on the branch above her head (this is on purpose). But in depictions of Mary and the snake. The snake is under her foot because Mary's role was to help finally trample evil and the devil once and for all so that no longer would evil be able to have a chance at trumping God's people. Anyone who wishes to be saved, can.
Mary played a HUGE role and this is only one example.

Syncretism in early Christianity combining the Virgin Mary with popular goddess cults in the late Roman world, such as those of Isis or Cybele.

>>81763
Most of the world worshiped Goddesses before Christianity showed up to paint the roses red.

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>>81708
Nothing like fear to make you feel alive

>>82066
What's he throwing? A brick?

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>>81708
You know, they were welcomed as liberators in a lot of villages they passed through.

>enslaving able bodied men and raping young women?
most likely true

>crucify old and weak natives en masse
why would they bother. Maybe they executed the highest nobles and clergy in an exemplary way

It was pretty fucked up and there are reports of systematic rape of nobles and priestess.

Overall they were less brutal then when the United States pushed west.

>>81583
>implying "MUUH AZTECS. FUCK THE SPANIARDS" isn't all about the Black Legend spread amongst the Anglo scholars
>implying

The societal system in Spain's colonies was far more advanced than that and established the way for admixture between Spaniards and natives, something that was frowned upon by other colonial powers. Also, their treatment of indegenous populations were miles ahead from other colonial powers (namely UK and Portugal) in the Americas.

>>81486
>1861?
UK
>1914?
USA followed by Germany and the UK

USA

>>81486
>1914
USA USA USA USA USA

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>>81478
>long story short people from CT and RI were fucking nuts back then

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not even kidding

>>81725
What is this about?

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>Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history," but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist. And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened.

>>81487
Love that essay

>What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions- they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins.

>>81547
He was pretty much a post-modernist before modernism even happened.

The thing that really puzzles me is how Mesoamerican cultures had both pyramids and dragons.

What about the Nazca lines aka runways? And the airplane statues? So many questions with no answer that makes sense... unless the anunnaki are factored in, then all of the answers become clear. How else would the pyramids have been built? And why else would people all across the world have revered the pyramid shape and worshipped very similar gods, having very similar beliefs of the afterlife and all believing in dragons?

>>81387
You mean that they had/believed in these things just like people in Egypt and Asia?

>>81325
Rome: Total War.

Age of Empires 2.

I prefer Rome 2: Total War

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WE WUZ QINGZ N SHIET

>>81608
Why did I laugh

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Tang Dynasty best dynasty

>>81131
A great military general who definitely deserves top 10. Too bad he was at a disadvatage at Zama.

>>81131
Arguably the single best general in human history. Lost
the war because of political infighting and the incompetence of Carthaginian nobility.

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>posting a fake depiction of Hannibal

bump tbqh

>>81086

Did the CIA really create and distribute crack to black neighborhoods in the US to fund off-the-books operations?

I say yes.

>>81086
bamp

>>81052
shagging, mainly, desu senpai

spending all their calories in some less efficent form of survival, fucking and fucking goats?

>>81052
Civs only started emerging in Mesopotamia c. 1500 BC