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Let's discuss the beginning shall we? It all started with the black hand
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how would the world look today if Franz Ferdinand had survived?
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https://youtu.be/kyCmh9G1fpo
The drawings are amazing
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Why is there a stegasaurus carved into a 12th century Cambodian temple?
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>>35669
I don't know, you tell me.
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>>35669
doesnt look like a stegosaurus. the head is very different. maybe they reconstructed/did guess work from some bones, or maybe it was a different species of lizard that is extinct now. i love alternative history theories, but there is no way that such a recent temple would have a dinosaur on it, even if they did copy earlier sources.
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>>35669
That looks like a stegoceratops.
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ITT you post the first mildly interesting historical fact that comes to mind
After Emperor Xerxes's first attempt to bridge the Hellespont ended in failure when a storm fucked up his piece of shit pontoon bridge, Xerxes ordered the waters of the Hellespont whipped. 300 times iirc
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>>35630
>believing Herodotus
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during the battle of Stalingrad a railway station changed hands 14 times in 6 hours
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>>35630
Before battle of Vienna in 1683 Grand Vezir Kara Mustafa sent a bushel of poppies to Jan III Sobieski (ruler of Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania) with a message that "our army is like these grains - it's impossible to count our soldiers".
King John III resent him basket with grains of pepper along with message "our army is like these grains - it can be counted, but it's hard to crush it".
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Who's the father of your language /his/?
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>>35305
Agricola
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>>35305
Cervantes
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ITT: Historical embarrassing/funny "wars" and battles
HARD MODE: No emu wars
Starting off with something that took place in my state.
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>Your State
Ohioans leave.
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>>35189
no
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>>35232
A
FUCKING
ACORN
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What is the greatest moment in all of history?
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The moment we started writing, obviously.
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Normandy landings
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The "shot heard 'round the world" - The Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Gavrilo Princip single-handedly set off a chain reaction which ultimately leads to the deaths of 80 million people.
With just a couple of bullets, this terrorist starts the First World War, which destroys four monarchies, leading to a power vacuum filled by the Communists in Russia and the Nazis in Germany who then fight it out in a Second World War.
Considering that all Princip wanted was to bring Bosnia under Serb control, it's a bit ironic that after a century of very messy history, it isn't. Everything about the world has changed drastically over the last century, except that.
Most historians consider the 20th century to have begun in 1914, so in essence, Gavrilo Princip is the man who created the 20th Century.
Some people would minimize Princip's importance by saying that a Great Power War was inevitable sooner or later given the tensions of the times, but I say that it was no more inevitable than, say, a war between Nato and the Warsaw Pact. Left unsparked, the Great War could have been avoided, and without it, there would have been no Lenin, no Hitler, no Eisenhower. Princip is one of the few individuals ever to make history.
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Thread for creating /his/-chan to represent the board to all of 4chan.
Ignore all shitposts and feel free to contribute.
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First for Clio.
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Hi, I'm here to discuss history and things relating to the past.
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Can't we just steal a SMT design and call it done?
So what do we call ourselves?
/his/torians seems like the obvious choice.
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/his/choolers
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>>34919
REKT
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>>34919
/his/coolers because we are OBVIOUSLY much cooler than any other thread
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Post battles that happened where you live.
Hard mode: nothing from WWI or WWII
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Seven_Oaks
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As an european there is a ridiculously high number of battle that happened near my city on in the city.
So i will go with : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bouvines
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>>35372
Pretty cool how it forced king john to sign the magna carta
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baka desu senpai
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>The Dark Ages
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Pure myth.
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i'm eternally grateful for the hyper-catholic, abortion clinic-picketing history teacher i had in 12th grade who set everyone straight
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The only real Dark Age I can think of is Greek Dark age
>Entire civilization mode collapses
>Entire writing system disappears forever, never to be revived
>The Past becomes entirely mythical
>Regress to nearly neolithic way of life
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How much of history do you believe is bullshit? Just totally fabricated and incorrect?
Because history is told using written records by humans, who have inherent biases or may be controlled by people with biases, I feel that it's very likely much of history isn't anything close to how we think things happened. Certain people or even entire civilizations may not have ever existed, inventions probably have very different inventors than who we know of, and in general history is probably just flat out wrong.
Even look at today's news media, is there even a single media source that has no bias? Imagine that effect amplified in a time when mainstream media was just a handful of guys with printing presses.
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Holocaust shitposting in 5...4....3...
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>>34654
Generally disciplinary historiography ensures the reduction of bullshit.
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Norse sagas. I mean I don't know and that's the point. We can't be sure of basically anything from the ancient times and early medieval period.
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ITT: We talk about the greatest empire in history.
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Mehmet.....
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>>34462
>memecenter.com
Point proven.
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Iceland?
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What happened with Turkic migration? How did it impact the world? did the populations that go to Europe assimilate into Europeans? Did Turks do a mass migration into Anatolia in history? Are Amerindians related to Turks?
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monitoring this thread to be honest familiar
uralics, mongols, turkics and migrations make my dick hard
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>>34439
The turkic migrations happened hundreds of years after man immigrated to the Americas.
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>>34552
Thousands, actually. Didn't the first people come to the Americas 12k years ago?
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What made Christianity so appealing compared to other religions of the time that led it to being the largest religion today. How was it so sucessful?
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promise of afterlife and charity pre 300 and state sponsorship after 300
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>>34418
Idk, but prolly it being the true religion must have contributed to its success
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>>34418
It's an all inclusive faith with a loving God at the center.
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/HIS/ RESOURCES GOOGLE DOCS THREAD - CONTRIBUTE
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Now we have a board, can we improve the resources document, add resources to any historical topics such as books, videos or podcasts. Hopefully we can catalogue a lot of resources so it could be stickied. We got a lot of resources that are unsorted, you could sort them if you can't contribute any resources.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rq0gUUpoI1Xi_NKpt7iuUdU2xdQzbwSu-g2BzpG_JBc
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A wiki would work better, as users could easily add recommended reading on topics they're knowledgeable about. It'd be easier to navigate too.
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>>34225
http://etymonline.com/
I always use it for all my etymological needs, and I like the guy's attitude
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>>34626
Sweet, thanks. I'll add it