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>>79431
Not near a major trading coastline.

The rats traveled faster by boat.

Jews lived there and jews actually washed themselves and didn't throw their shit in the street.

jews tbqh

no seriously poles and jews tend to be more tightly knit communities

>>>/lit/

We're not here to do your homework for you

>>79543
this is the philosophy board you fucking mong

>>79364
>Analytic
http://www.philpapers.org/archive/sinPG

>>79364
Both. A lot of analytic stuff is autistic though.

>>79515
And all continental stuff is pseudo-intellectual sophistry.

ayy

>>79297
I'm getting there. What is the key?

I think it's acceptance...

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>>79297
What you are reading here is a display of solidarity for my fellow students of virtue. May all who read this message find peace and understanding.

>>79329
Depends on what you're accepting.

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>pax mongolica

>dragged Sinic and Islamic civilizations 300 years back so the west got the chance to lead in modernization
10/10

Bitches, gold, nice horses(substitute for nice car) and fighting. Literally the dream life.

>>79024
Nuclear detonations are so beautiful.

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Regan's assassination attempt

>>78734
>Caesar
>overrated
Granted, his failure to conquer Southeast Britain was embarrassing but his conquest of Gaul was impressive.

>>78843
Wasn't to embarrassing, Caesar lead the first successful invasion of Britain, and they installed a friendly king, I'm guessing if his hands weren't tied with Gaul he would have made more of an effort

Leave.

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> tfw hebrew

>>78649
this

In a military tactical sense yes

In a moral sense no but that's total war for you

yes
winners_write_history/10

>>78485
Compared to the alternative, yes.

I have one
>facts are meme history
this is just like leddit or /pol/

The oldest wheeled vehicle was discovered in Slovenia dated from around 3300bc

fun fact: on December 13, 1937, about 30 Japanese soldiers murdered all but two of 11 Chinese in the house at No. 5 Xinlukou. A woman and her two teenaged daughters were raped, and Japanese soldiers rammed a bottle and a cane into her vagina. An eight-year-old girl was stabbed, but she and her younger sister survived. They were found alive two weeks after the killings by an elderly woman.

I love Revolutionary France and the Napoleonic wars - very fascinating. It is worth noting that Napoleon was not actually short - he was 5'6 which was average height for a man at the time. Also he was Corsican, which basically is Italian but they had their own language (a derivative form of Italian) and all. He also hated France until his mid 20's, at which time he was a Brigadier-General for the French army.

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>>78069
Watch Sharpe senpai.

Waterloo (The 70's Russian-Italian film) is also breddy gud.

That's how I got myself interested in the Napoleonic wars.

Revolutionary France is insanity, well worth reading up on. Good reads: Glory and Terror, Antoine De Baecque

Zizek presents Robespierre: Virtue and Terror

Napoleon is a great study, but can't remeber any good reads on him off the top of my head.

As for things I know nothing about: World War I/II
Muh public school.

Who was the best emperor

>>78041
Some possible candidates:

> Augustus
Established the principate, probably saved the Roman world order. Laid the foundation of autocratic rule in the West.

>Hadrian
Basically set the Empire to embrace reasonable geographic limits instead of constant expansion.

> Gallienus
This guy was a big deal in the third century crisis; he basically had to deal with an Empire that was splitting in three and had very little to work with yet did ok. Very underrated. Embraced crucial cavalry reforms that made the army more competitive in the East against the rising Sassanid threat.

> Aurelian
The restorer of the world, managed to reunite the Roman world against incredible odds; destroyed the Palmyrene Empire of Zenobia, bringing the east back into the fold.

Continued...

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>>78041
Pic

>>77953
fire /thread

the writing utensil

The internet. We can't even witnessed what the internet end game will be.

In Our Time is also a heavyweight.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth

My personal picks

5. Futility Closet
>Hosted by husband and wife team Greg and Sharon Ross, the podcast explores historical curiosities and oddities from Greg's research and eponymous blog.

>Average episode time is around 30 mins

>http://www.futilitycloset.com/category/podcast/

6. Nate Di Meo - The Memory Palace
>Ethereal, beautiful, and sentimental, The Memory Palace extols various stories from American history. Nate's narration is elegant, and the stories sometimes bittersweet.

http://thememorypalace.us/

starter episodes:
>Episode 12 (These Words, Forever)
>Episode 30 (Nee Weinberg)
>Episode 44 (Distance)

>>77926
I listened to Dan Carlin's Wrath of the Khans a few weeks ago and it got me interested in Chinese history. Any suggestions?

>>77864
>Why did Zoroastrianism decline
Mainly legal laws which favoured Islam. Causing all but the most devout to convert to gain advantages.

>and why was it replaced so easily with Islam
It wasn't. Zoroastrianism was the majority religion of Persia until the first millenium.

Islam was just more memetic.

Literally.
Only aggressively viral ideas spread and dominate human minds.

>>77982
You follow a dumbass who Makes money off you

>>77864
Zoroastrianism had a shitty afterlife