Did the "The Rape of Nanking," really happen?
>>18844
only japs think that it didnt happen
>>18844
Yes, it did. It's a little tricky to calculate numbers on it because all the Japanese records on it were burned towards the very end of the war, but it certainly occurred and 40-300k citizens died, depending on who you believe.
>>18844
Go home Shinzo Abe.
And you can take Hiroshima with you.
Is it true that Malcolm X initially advocated for ideas such as black segregation and separatism? I understand he was also against racial mixing and was essentially a black nationalist.
If this is true, he would be a modern American liberal's nightmare for holding such ideas and a poor example of them to use as a leadership figure for blacks in the USA today. Did he renounce these ideas and shift his ideology?
sage and reported
>>18778
what's wrong?
>>18764
>Did he renounce these ideas and shift his ideology
His idealogy changed when he made his pilgrimage to Mecca and saw everyone regardless of skin color praying together, realizing that racial problems stem from differences between cultures and not something inherent. The Nation of Islam didn't like that because they always preached about the White Devil, so a bunch of members of the NoI shot him.
So in the end were the Normans beneficial for England or did they just genocide a bunch of English and destroy their language?
>>18697
The British Empire would not have existed where it not for the Norman conquest.
>brought true fuedalism to the still semi tribal Anglo Saxons
>truly entrenched interest in the Roman Empire in English nobility, leading to much of the inspiration for British Imperialists
>expanded the English language greatly
>seizure of the throne by William I and integration of Normandy into the K. of England led to the Hundred Years War, therefore causing the rivalry between France and England that survives to this day
Both
Before Normans the English were just Anglo-Saxons.
They were germanic, did not use horses, had a loose feudal system that had early forms of representation. That would later reappear as the Parliament
The Normans who were frenchified northmen introduced french, and thereby more Latin, forms of feudalism with your classic dukes and barons. Big castles, horses, chivalry, all that good stuff.
It also would fuel the blossoming french-english relationship as sharing a land border would.
But yeah William the Conqueror also killed a bunch of rebels and burned some houses
However he was the last to have the privilege of getting to conquer/invade England, kill a bunch of pesant men then rape the widows
He was what, the forth?
>>18697
The Normans are what made England relevant.
What is your favorite ancient civilization? And why?
I'd personally have to go with Ancient Egypt. Their culture, architecture, religion, art... I just find it all so fascinating.
Greeks
Ancient Rome on the account that the Punic Wars were just damn awesome.
>>18694
Old Sumeria personally. I guess mostly because of the mystique of being the crib of human civilization. It makes even what little we know right now feel more weighty.
>How can one man be so right about literally everything?
>>18476
maybe because he wasn't at all?
he was a deluded materialist just like you are.
>implying anyone knows who this fat cunt is
by literally parroting john lock word for word
What happened to Argentina?
Before WWI their GDP was higher than the GDP of Germany, Italy and France
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21596582-one-hundred-years-ago-argentina-was-future-what-went-wrong-century-decline
>>18458
not white
>>18458
Peronism maybe?
They were flooded with Europeans that were either escaping fascism or were escaping fascists.
How did religion begin?
Fire
>>18306
Heraclitus pls.
fear of dying
Post your favorite battle
Battle of France, the elusive dram of a six week campaign against a great power became a reality for the only time in the 20th century.
Let the British butthurt commence
Battle of Medina Ridge
historically when did art objectivly become terrible
I personally think it was when they rejected hitler into art school and allowed mumbo jumbo stuff
everything post 50s is disasterous
When Avant-Garde became a thing?
Early 20th century.
like every cancer of western civilization
don't think it's all terrible but >>18001 is right
Name a better president that isn't Lincoln.
>>17812
/pol/ fuck off
Are we talking effectively, potentially, or character?
Carter wins in character and probably potential.
>>17812
jefferson davis
Which historical army had the most /fa/ uniforms and why is it the Japanese?
the Japanese in general are /fa/ as fuck so it does make sense
They look prussian as fuck.
>not having your uniforms designed by hugo boss
talk about Russian history ITT
>>17697
Basically an endless cycle of autocracies one upping each other.
jews killed Alex II
first fase was the russian empire, second fase was the USSSR, third fase is now the russian federation, and troghout the history, nobody have been able to destroy it.....only themselves
Can we talk about the history of art and how techniques developed over time? I'm curious to know how we went from the same art style for a good few hundred years to what the op image is.
>>17660
Photography and film. Everything since from Picasso to Pollack has been just meme artists. Metropolis and 2001 are greater than any painting of the last 150 years
>>17660
Civilisation is a pretty great documentary series.
Thread for creating /his/ tan to represent the board to all of 4chan.
This represent YOU so get in here and help come up with something you can be proud of
>>17530
fuck you and everything you represent
>>17530
voting for marble ancient philosopher and post-industrial loli
OC can switch between them depending on what people want. It'll work.
>>17579
marble Socrates wizard
What are your favorite languages, and what parts of those languages make them your favorite? Also what is your most hated language?
Flemish I love because it sounds so fucking CUTE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXqF5XFqUuA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL8PGnfDXGk
Also Finnish and Icelandic for similar reasons. There are very few harsh sounds (with Flemish it's basically dutch without the hard gggggggg throat sound) and it sounds very pleasant even when people are angry.
Also I like the Mayan languages because the writing system gets so awesome, and it has pretty weird hard consonant clusters. Also the ɬ sound where you like use your cheeks, like like NahuaTL or TenochtiTLan:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Nawatl.ogg
Last cute language is Gaelic, here's a good example of scottish gaelic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7HbJtop2Q
Lastly, fuck German.
>>17477
>the hard gggggggg throat sound
I fucking hate that sound.
>>17477
German would be cool to use when you're pissed. Its all guttural and blunt. It's ugly as hell, but it's kinda like a dog that's so ugly it's cute.
>>17507
yeah that's why i said flemish
actual dutch, and german and swiss german all have that sound and it's fucking retarded