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Let's have a thread for strong women in history.
>Franca Viola (born in Alcamo in 1947) is a Sicilian woman who became famous in the 1960s in Italy for refusing a "rehabilitating marriage" ("matrimonio riparatore" in Italian) with her victimizer after suffering kidnapping and rape. Instead, she and her family successfully appealed to the law to prosecute the rapist. The trial had a wide resonance in Italy, as Viola's behavior clashed with the traditional social conventions, whereby a woman would lose her honour if she did not marry the man she lost her virginity to. Franca Viola thus became a symbol of the cultural progress and the emancipation of women in post-war Italy.
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An obvious one
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Nzinga Mbande. Google and tell me she's not someone you wouldn't like to meet.
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>>70662
I wonder how hairy her vag is.
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How did Russia become so big?
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>>70471
because it's a barren wasteland filled with nothing of no value anyone wants, so nobody has bothered to capture and take any of the frozen wilderness and keep it
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>>70471
Nobody wanted their land.
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>>70471
Miles and miles of empty forest. Not very impressive desu
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Who here has a degree in the humanities?
I'm on my second-to-last semester to completing a Bachelor's in History.
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Same as you anon. Got my dissertation coming up and I'm a little freaked out about that
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>>70528
What'll you be writing about, m8?
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>>70464
I don't have a degree in Humanities, but I have a job, so it balances out.
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I'd like to know more about Hungary, it's a quite fascinating country. It seems weird how they sometime were so powerful, and soon after became shit. I'm not an expert but it really feels like they missed the chance of having a stable state like all other monarchies in western Europe finally got.
Also they were the only ones to win clear big victories against the Turks, that counts for something.
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>Also they were the only ones to win clear big victories against the Turks, that counts for something
Almost all of Hungarian territory except for today's Slovakia was conquered by Ottomans
Hungarian gov't fucked up with its policy of Magyarizition
Pre-WWI Hungary was agrarian backward shithole with the political system from the Middle Ages
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>>70407
>feels like they missed the chance of having a stable state like all other monarchies in western Europe finally got
I guess you could say that. Hungary was the frontline against the turks for about 150 years with being at war with them for most of the time. During this time of almost constant fighting Hungary was largely depopulated and impoverished, so they didn't have the chance to develop their industry and society like Western Europe did.
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>>70407
Okay, I'm gonna dump everything you want to know, just wait a few minutes.
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Which figures of history do you think aren't deserving of the praise they get?
Overrated people of history thread.
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>>70346
Pic related.
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Will you learn Ancient Greek with me, /his/?
We can make it in to a daily thing, like Japanese threads on /a/.
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>>70216
I would prefer to learn Latin, I think. Idk. I'm a Christian, so it would definitely be useful, but maybe not as useful as Latin, really.
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>>70244
I'd be open to Latin as well.
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>>70216
I took 3 years of it at university if you want to ask anything.
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ITT: We talk about the greatest empire in history.
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>>70069
>ottoman dickriding will be a daily affair on /his/
Not half as groundbreaking as the Romans desu
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Sure thing friend
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S I C K M A N O F E U R O P E
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>blew the monarchy the fuck out
>blew Catholics the fuck out
>blew the Irish the fuck out
How can one man be so based?
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cromwell is a fucking cunt and literally ruined the entire world
his ancestors and anyone remotely related to anyone who signed charles death warrant should be forced into systematic poverty and barely kept alive on government welfare
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>>70115
Irish scum detected
Everynight I dream of cromwells return
t.englishman
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>Puts his Betafag son on the Throne
>They dont even bother to kill him when he is deposed
Republicans BTFO
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/his/torians, what do you think would have happened if Zoroastrianism had become the dominant faith instead of Islam?
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>>70050
>Britain
is this a meme?
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>>70050
It could never have happened. Zoroastrianism, unlike Islam, can not spread easily or even convert people as it needs both parents to be from this religion.
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>>70050
islam has a lot of the elements of zoroastrianism, just like judaism and to a lesser extent christianity
in a sense, i would argue that islam is the continuation of zoroastrianism.
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ITT: Times the good guys won and the bad guys lost
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Too bad it didnt last
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>>69983
WW2 definitely, could you imagine the world if germany were victorius? The opression, the racism, the intolerance.
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>>70049
>the racism, the intolerance.
There would only be Germans though so there wouldn't be any racism or intolerance
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How dark were the Dark Ages?
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How dark were the Dark Ages?
Are there no merits to the title? If we're willing to measure societies, wouldn't this era be on the low-end, with respect to the west?
>Visual Art
>Music
>Philosophy
>Literature
Seems kinda dark, desu.
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>>69972
They're called dark ages because there's little source material on them that survived, that is all
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>>69972
>visual art
colourful heraldry was neat
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Are classifications/categories social constructs?
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>>69921
On the grander scale, yes
Tribalism is, however in human nature and we often times classify ourselves into specific tribes based on appearance.
Race is the least specific (white encompasses norwegians, Italians, Serbians etc, all diverse populations but still a part of the same group) and can be further broken down into more specific categories (Balkan, Slavic, Scandinavian etc) and further into individual ethnic groups.
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Literally everything is a social construct. Humanit does not exist outside of society.
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>>69921
Beautiful painting țbh
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How can there be free will and choice when there's causality?
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Having free will or not does not make any difference. Regardless of if it exists we are all defined by who we are rather than by any conscious effort.
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There cannot. But is there causality?
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>>69950
>But is there causality?
Anyone who seriously asks this question should be punched in the face.
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>Hunger and powerty reign in Germany. In four and half months of war Germany has lost four and a half million soldiers.
https://youtu.be/8IGbjPqFFvA?t=281
What did he mean by this?
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>>69805
>What did he mean by this?
People die in war?
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>>69805
God damn Stalin really did suck at public speaking. It's the one thing Hitler had over him.
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>>69878
Stalin was ruthless motherfucker
Hitler was a weak bitch compared to him
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Can we get an essential /his/ /lit/ list?
I have a few books that we could add:
>The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
>A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
>the Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
>Mein Kampf
>principia mathematica
>The Republic
Anyone else?
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>>69648
So, specifically for history? We could make them for certain time periods, but not for all history, unless you want just general recs.
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>>69648
Mein Kampf a.k.a. Butthurt Manifesto is objectively garbage.
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>>69648
The Prince?
The Divine Comedy?
The Odyssey?