What has been the role of intelligence services and espionage across history?
Are they always a shady institution with unknown ties and goals despite their official function towards the state or did they actually served their nations?
what do you think about Battle of Tours?
You know someone is badass when you have to say their name in latin
CAROLUS MARTELLUS
Charles the motherfucking hammer
Succeded by Pepin the short
Who was succeeded by
CAROLUS MAGNUS
Charles THE Great
>>3374376
Meme battle.
Micro-historic event.
>ywn be a British aristocrat sent off to govern parts of the empire
Why even live?
Can someone on /his/ or anyone post me some pics of some Latin-American military uniforms?
I like their aesthetics.
>>3374227
Samefag I found this.
I know the most basic details about his Muhammad and his conquest and how Islam spread afterwards. Can someone give me a quick rundown on what it is, comparing and contrasting with Christianity?
>>3374187
Islam is a shitty fan fiction of the Abrahamic source materal.
>>3374197
this
it's iirc a mix of judaism and pagan arab beliefs that's heavily expansionistic
Why are the Byzantines so fucking cool?
Because they were Greek AND Roman. Plus they had a kickass capital and a dank double eagle stanard
>>3374145
If u said the pic was Sassanid I would've believed it.
Who?
>american """"""philosophers""""""
>american """"""philosophy""""""
>constituitional republics
>seperation of powers
>making a leviathan without having a king
truly a joke, sharia law is far superior
How has this region not destroyed each other yet?
fucking your neighbor's goat isn't very effective warfare
>>3373996
the mountains make it too much of a hassle.
>>3373996
byzantines genocided them and then got blown the fuck out by turks
Which faction was cucked hardest by Franco, the Carlists or the Falangists?
>>3373989
Carlists.
>>3373989
Carlists, no doubt. They had been cucked already 3 times the past century and to begin with they barely had any reason to join Franco besides wanting to fight the reds. Accordingly Franco ignored their branch of the dynasty (and at first monarchy in general). At least falange got some more attention.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3985150/Is-written-mention-Jesus-2-000-year-old-lead-tablets-remote-cave-genuine-claim-researchers.html
>>3373855
lead tablets are pretty neato, I have heard of them being used as books, but can't find much on the internet. The author of a book I read claimed to have seen lead tablets written by Jacob or some other old testament character. It wasn't an /x/-tier book, but some historian just hanging out with Mandaeans, It is a shame he didn't obtain permission to scan them
I am hoping that this will shed more light on the ever-paradoxical life and history on the historical Jesus.
It also makes you wonder who wrote the books, if they were a misconception of Christ or more accurate than the Gospels...
>claim god was both male and female
Our Xather, who art in heaven
>Quintili Vare, legiones redde
>>3373832
how did we lose to animal fucking pagans
>>3373832
This statue is the only one of Augustus that I know that shows him with anything but a calm, stoic expression
>>3373899
>how did we lose to animal fucking pagans
>we
>pagans
>When your aerospace team is so shit you have to threaten ex-nazis with life imprisonment if they don't help you
>>3373733
The Ex-Nazis were just happy that they weren't in Russia.
Now that the dust has settled, we can all agree the Ostrogoths were the best ... right?
>>3373666
>Ostrogoths
they're just snowniggers who larped as Romans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Dynasty_of_Egypt
>Human sacrifice was practiced as part of the funerary rituals associated with all of the pharaohs of the first dynasty.
>It is clearly demonstrated as existing during this dynasty by retainers being buried near each pharaoh's tomb as well as animals sacrificed for the burial.
>The tomb of Djer is associated with the burials of 338 individuals.
>The people and animals sacrificed, such as donkeys, were expected to assist the pharaoh in the afterlife.
>For unknown reasons, this practice ended with the conclusion of the dynasty.
If the Egyptians knew that it was fucked up to scarifice people 5000 years ago why did it take the Aztecs so long?
>there was a time when Portugal was one of the richest and most powerful countries in the world
>>3373643
I get a bigger kick out of the fact that the Middle-East was once fabulously wealthy compared to the rest of the world.
>>3373643
Now it's 'Brazil's little friend'.
>>3373643
It was actually THE richest for a while.