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hey /his/, was the deadliest warrior show accurate?
It was a fun show and they did bring in weapon experts, but they would always have something live experience or something like that for fights.
I started to doubt the integrity of the show with the episode that said somali pirates could beat a columbian drug cartel
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It lost all credibility, for me, after
>IRA vs Taliban
what in the actual fuck
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>>15058
I didnt really know anything about the IRA so I just assumed it was right
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>>15001
>George Washington is a better general than Napoleon
It's shit.
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To celebrate the new board, I thought it would be cool to have a fun thread where you post historical stuff you bought. Primarily historical texts if you have them, but fiction set in time periods of your choice, and miscellaneous items related to history are cool too.
Pic related, a recent purchase I got at my university's book sale. Has a great amount of pictures in it both in black and white and color, and was a steal at two bucks. Also got a collection of Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs as well, some great stuff.
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I got this in the Afghanistan Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World's Fair.
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>>14949
It's in storage right now, but I have a 20 kopek coin from the Soviet union. Stalin's death sentence coin. It's pretty cool.
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>>14949
I will be doing this in about 13 hours time
Expect a fair amount of items and documents
Look for the name scipa
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Who would you consider to be the quintessential "Great Man" of human history? For me, it would have to be Julius Caesar.
Caesar managed to be one of the most brilliant politicians of his era, a phenomenal writer and orator, and perhaps the greatest general of the Ancient World (if not of all time).
Usually when I hear of great men, they are usually super adept at one main task: warfare. Alexander the Great was an absolutely phenomenal tactician and highly charismatic, but not much else.
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>>14942
Saul of Tarsus
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>>15382
Saul of the mole men.
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>>14942
Aisha, Mother of the Believers.
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From the Yukon to the Pampas, post Native American art and architecture.
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Does anyone have any resources on native american art in New England? specially Maine
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What went wrong other than Islam?
It clearly started declining before islam showed up.
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>>14679
Islam wasn't that bad in it's early stages. The crescent just got massively fucked by the black death, especially Egypt.
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>>14679
>What went wrong other than Islam?
Wow, starting off the thread with some heavy loading there guy.
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Literally a desert
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Who was the last true Roman?
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Cato the Younger.
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Romans exist today.
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Why the Turks trigger the crusaders and how come they easily beat the crusaders?
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Because Papal state saw they was next in line to get raped by the Turks.
And because Muslims were overwhelming the entire region and groups of men coming from long distances couldn't effectively stop them for long.
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>>14359
The Crusades were launched to curb Islamic aggression. Most of them weren't succesful because of bad organisation, commitment, Arab terrain advantage combined with the logistical nightmare of getting all the crusaders there in the first place.
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>easily beat
Not really, Crusaders did bretty good for being a continent away and still keeping them at bay. They literally made the place better too
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No Crusade thread?
I recently finished 'The First Crusade: A New History' by Thomas Asbridge. Would highly recommend, it gives a brief account of the Crusader's motivations, but in general it mainly talks about their battles and journey to Jerusalem. It's well written and easily accessible.
Now I want to move on to the Iberian Reconquest because 'muh heritage', but I don't know what book to start with.
Oh, and are there any apologists for the Reconquista and Spanish Inquisition?
Heretics and moors not welcome.
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What about pic related?
It's obviously biased, but how's the accuracy of the author's claims?
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What is the best book on the Third Crusade? Richard the Lionheart is my favorite figure in medieval history.
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Not a clue how to pick favorite books, but its a tossup between Baldwin IV or Godfrey of Bouillon.
Mostly for acting the most Christian in what turned into a very brutal campaign/s.
was 50s America the peak of human civilization? What went wrong? Was it the [spoiler]socialists[/spoiler]?
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>>14169
no
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>>14169
How would one measure a level of civilisation or decide when it has peaked?
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>>14169
By "peak", you mean constant nuclear war and commie paranoia, then yes.
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Do you believe that if all humans and animals (things that undergo experience/sensation) ceased to exist, there would still exist something?
As in, do you believe in a mind-independent world?
If so, how is it you know?
And, what is the nature of this thing that exists? (eg, atoms, platonic forms, etc)
If no, would you describe yourself as an idealist? Explain your views.
Basically this is a thread to discuss your thoughts about the structure of reality.
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>Do you believe that if all humans and animals (things that undergo experience/sensation) ceased to exist, there would still exist something?
>As in, do you believe in a mind-independent world?
Yes
>If so, how is it you know?
Because if I exist now, and if I know that there are things I am perceiving that are external to me, me dying won't change that fact.
>And, what is the nature of this thing that exists?
Atoms and such presumably. Maybe also "souls" for "living things" and/or consciousnesses
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>external to me
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>>14599
Do you imply I need to prove that everything I experience is not a mental construct or some sort of self-produced illusion generated by my existance?
This board is irrelevant. /pol/ is the board for history, philosophy, etc. It's all tied to politics.
It would be like splitting /s/ up into sub-boards for specific fetishes (boobs, butt, feet), there's literally no reason to.
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>>13750
>/pol/ is the board for philosophy
>not /lit/, the place with graduates from Oxford university
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>not wanting /ass/
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>/pol/ is the board for history, philosophy, etc. It's all tied to politics.
Good one anon
/pol/ is just for shitposting tangentially related to politics. Some examples
>I feel sorry for manlets, it's like being emasculated 24/7
>R: 176 / I: 30
>>>/pol/54809119
>Ask an Israeli ex-IDF troop anything.
>R: 217 / I: 49
>>>/pol/54808525
>Crackers BTFO: This is what they think a characterization of white people is. What do you think /pol/? Did this gay nigger in white-face nail it?
>R: 168 / I: 38
>>>/pol/54805029
In the hour I've posted on /his/ I've seen more moderation than being on /pol/ in a year
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So what year did the British Empire stop existing?
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>>13481
1997
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It's called America and friends now
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>>13596
So that would make the British empire the latest empire?
Unless you count the EU
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Was Japan getting nuked twice justified?
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>>13357
yes
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Shit sucked, but whatever. Stopped the war.
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No one cares desu
It was still better than what happened to Detroit
Who's Baal, /his/?
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>>13356
poor babylonians
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Ba'al just means 'Lord' in Northwest Semitic languages (Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hebrew)
It actually isn't a single god, there's Baal Hadad, Baal Hammon, Baal Haramun, et cetera. But the Baal that is generally referred to as just 'Baal' is Baal Hadad. Baal Hadad was the storm god in a lot of Semitic pantheons. Think of him as semitic Zeus. He's sort of the big player, but he's not actually the creator (El is). Like how most people think Zeus has feuds with Hades, Baal has a feud with Mot (Death) in something called the Baal cycle.
There's a Baal we're all familiar with, actually, Beelzebub. Beelzebub is from the Hebrew 'Baal al Zevuv', or if you speak Arabic, Ba3al adh-dhubab, literally 'The lord of the flies'. It's a word with a good history behind it, some semitic pagans worshipped a god named Ba'al Zebul (Lord of the manor), and the Israelites would mockingly call him Ba'al Zebub (Lord of the flies, pests, et cetera).
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Is he Baal?
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Post things about the past which you think were misconstrued or wrong. i.e. Nero never burned Rome or played the fiddle.
Also anything regarding events or people during WW2 is forbidden!
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Bush knocked the towers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdr_2IAJWU
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>>13314
bro it has to be before '91
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>>13314
jet fuel cant melt dank memes