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>>3159664
J U S T
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The incredible part is that the Mongols sent TWO envoys. They fucking kidnapped one of the only examples of Mongol kindness, and got a second envoy for talking things out like adults. He fucking begged them with tears in his eyes to give a reason, any reason, not to exterminate everyone. He tried so hard for the only time in his life to be merciful and the fucktards turned good ol genghy down. The Khan came to town, every town, and wiped them clean. He reminded them that if they had not sinned, none of this would be necessary. It was all their fault, it didn't have to end like that, dying like dogs. This is the largest unforced error in human history. Nothing comes within a fraction of the sheer number of extra chromosomes displayed by the Kwarezmian leadership. Fifty thousand years from now they will be remembered still as the apex predators of poor decision-making.

>>3159664
95% is wrong

Mongols spared the Turks and Turkics because of the Ancient Pact made in Baideng.

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>>3159633
Someone likes populism.

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These two men

>opposed neo-liberalism before it completely gutted the american middle class and shifted wealth to the top
>were socially liberal, but not mindless libertarians that are just dicksuckers of the rich
>not a bunch of bootlicking career politicians
>last real chance for America to break out of the retarded 2 party system
>all around good men

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>>3159633
Only one right answer.

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Young Ottomans to be more precise

>>3159606
final nail in the coffin, and dragging them into the war. turkey was dying anyway.

>>3159606
The Ottoman Empire ruined the Ottoman Empire

autistically*

>"History" for 7-11 year olds
>Even worth anything to start with
If this was high school level I might give a shit

>>3159542
>Achilles has inaccurate gear
>This is horrible, he's wearing a Corinthian hoplite helmet which didn't exist in pre-classical Greece, and a steel Roman gladius which has no place being in late bronze age Anatolia where the Trojan war is supposed to take place.

>Achilles is a nigger
>LMAO WHY DO YOU CARE SO MUCH, IT'S ONLY A MOVIE

Life needs right conditions to manifest itself

>>3159428
Obviously, but how is it that in only 600 million years those "right conditions" occurred? If you actually look into how absurdly unlikely it is for life to arise from non-life, it really makes it seem ridiculous that 600 million years is enough. If the conditions are so easily met that life can begin spontaneously in a timescale so short we should be able to much more easily prove that it can do so, hell there should probably be some species still alive today that have spontaneously generated and developed alongside older species, but that isn't the case at all, everything shares a common ancestor despite spontaneous life being apparently so easy to generate naturally, even in the most remote places on Earth there is no species that is a result of an abiogenesis separate from our apparent own.

>>3159415
Atmosphere first had to change to oxygen to permit complex multicellular life forms. It took billions of years to do that. Once oxygen levels where set, evolution went quickly.

>>3159350
> England was an irrelevant backwater compared to: Poland-Lithuania, Bohemia, Hungary and Muscovy


Ahahaha what the fuck am I reading?

You were never relevant apart from Hungary and sometimes Poland and Czech republic, Baltic states were always irrelevant backwaters, same as the Balkans and Ukraine

>>3159376
>anglo education

Can anyone recommend a good book in English on Medival Poland?

>>3159294
Are you mentally ill? The question (?) is horrendously worded and the ideas behind it even more absurd.

>>3161234
>bumping this shit thread when it's about to fall off the board
kill yourself

>>3161234
Which ideas? Why are they absurd?

but AlexAndre was black

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>>3159296
Shieeet....

>>3159296
No, Alexander was not black, my source is http://realhistoryww.com/ who say Alexander was an asshole and ruined all the black Kangdoms

>>3159273
But I like political philosophy OP.

Political philosophy has arguably more depth than the other three anon mentioned.

>>3161148
Political philosophy cannot be justified without initially establishing a metaethics or normative ethics, which involves outlining an epistemology & metaphysics first

>the eternal beatnik

>>3159272

The Vietnam war. Nobody wanted to go die in a jungle just because LBJ said so.

increased wealth and pot

>>3159268
Godly

Probably something like this

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-230

>>3159268
like getting murdered by the gods after a few seconds of pleasure, if you could even get inside.

Do you really think that you could please Aphrodite? Hephaestus couldn't even satisfy her and he was a god. You'd probably cum upon glancing at her, and then she'd make fun your dick for a few minutes.

Think of the mortals she did sleep with.

Butes-An Argonaut. You aren't one.
Anchises- Zeus forced her to fall in love with him for constantly messing with the other gods.
Adonis-literal male perfection.

>>3159157
Let me guess, niggers and jews?
Fuck off.

Because eurangutans keep trying to convince themselves that they had a lot of struggle compqred to Amerindians. The truth is Incas were superior to europeans. History demonstrates it.

>>3159157
Source/evidence for this claim?

>>3159129
Most be ridiculously old. Most Irish metal working and knotwork art from the Viking Age and long before, is far more complicated than that

Can you give me a link lad?

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>>3159129
Isnt swastikas also depicted in most ancient european cultures as well as india and asia? often representing the sun if i remember correctly

>>3159181

Yes it's an OLD symbol. Nothing to do with Hinduism.

This isn't just non-fiction, it's also fiction where the pseuds are out in full force. Fiction was most likely originally written for fun. These days, "fun" and "enjoyment" are dirty words for the pseudo-intellectuals. All the classic novels are supposedly filled with "profound psychological and philosophical insights". Novels these days are supposed to facilitate an English professor's activity of making unfalsifiable, post hoc inferences or playing spot the allusion. Even though everyone today is supposedly too stupid to know what a good novel is, every surviving novel ("which stood the test of time" supposedly) first had to survive by having some measure of popularity in its own time, where everyone had an IQ of 200.

You can't just call something boring these days and stop reading it. You have to claim that the author's understanding of Sanskrit linguistics as applied to the design of chewing gum wrappers was deficient.

t. Brainlet

>>3159056
tl:dr i'm a lazy fuck who can't read 10 pages let alone a book

If you want to just post things out of your ass without being properly informed on the subject so be it, just don't pretend your opinion has any value

How well documented is the goings on in Axum/Abyssinia during Antiquith/The Medieval period? I want to read about the eternal struggle against Islam.

>>3159006
*antiquity

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>>3158998
Hello fellow Sub-Saharan Africanologists

Is there any chance that the Nsibidi ideographic script evolved from Egyptian symbols similar to how poto-Phoenician and Nubian did and spread throughout their respective regions?
Or is this an entirely isolated case that could potentially predate all written languages, since we don't know its true origin and only ahve traces with the Ikom monoliths of todays Nigeria?