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So I just finished niall Ferguson's civilisation (audio book). Anyone else checked this treatise out? Up to but not including chapter 5 its almost as good as jarred diamonds. Chapter 5 to end seemed like niall wanted to get his word count up.
What are some other good preferably audio book works I can work my way through?
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>>3085350
Kenneth Clarke's "Civilisation" and Bronkowski's "The Ascent of Man".
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>>3085350
People who can't differentiate between Germans and Germanics should be banned from /his/.
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>>3085350
Where am I?!
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How concrete have borders historically been?
Say for example, 18th century Europe?
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>>3085173
a river or a mountain range was about as concrete as it gets
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>>3085173
tfw no nympho kuruminha gf
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>>3085173
I live in Germany, and if you wander around forests and hilly regions, you can still find old (literal) milestones from the 18th century. Basically a rectangular stone block, the width of a loaf of bread, but a metre high (designs vary), with the year and a name chiseled in, although most are pretty eroded. These were used to demarcate borders.
Europe's pretty crowded, relatively speaking, so borders were jealously niggled over.
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What are some of the biggest underdog nations? Either nations which did a lot without being part of the bigger picture, accomplished a great deal in context of what they had/stood up to forces far more powerful than them.
Particularly looking for smaller nations which then transformed into bigger nations for whatever reason, and the basic history behind this.
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SCOTLAND
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>>3085147
Thailand
A successful model of a degenerate nation
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>>3085158
Unironically this, the creation of Great Britain under the acts of union led to the closure of a french route into a land invasion bia scotland, which led to total British dominance on the Isles, which led into the creation of the British Empire, that being said, fuck off jacobite scum.
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How come it took zoroastrianism so long to die?
Persia has been conquered in 651, over 70% of its holy text has been lost yet there are still a few practicioners left and they will probably linger for a few more decades. Manicheans, pagans and gnostics disappeared pretty fast, how come this has so much staying power even after being utterly defeated by stronger religion?
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>>3084821
LARPers lad, current ideological trends embarrass them so they reach out to something old which they have romanticised and think is superior.
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>>3084827
It's almost impossible to convert to Zoroastrianism dickhead, it's why their faith is such a minority
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When the Romans wrote of the Jewish God, they identified him with Saturn, adding that Saturday was the holiest day to the Jews because it was Saturn's Day. Is this the only quality that caused them to identify their religion with Saturn, rather than Jupiter, the chief sky deity? And if so, why when the Romans adopted Christianity did they identify their own God with attribues of Jupiter rather than Saturn? Were they aware of the etymological puns at work with Deus/Dio/Pater/Iou-pater? And what God if any did the Greeks identify the Hebrew one with?
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What is the source on Roman identification of Yahweh and Saturn?
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>>3084956
Tacitus
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>>3084972
Sanchuniathon.
Eusebius of Caesarea.
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Explain the Grail to me. 2017-07-15 01:23:37 Post No.3084800
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What does it represent?
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Nothing, it’s just a plot device in fantasy novel written in the middle ages.
Kind of like the One Ring in Lord of The Rings.
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>>3084895
What does the one ring represent?
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>>3084921
Satan
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>Watch Game of Thrones
>Look up Wikipedia
>It actually happened
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The irl version is much more interesting.
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>>3084721
>Rome was cancelled for this bullshit
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>>3084721
>Rome was cancelled for this bullshit
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What was really the reason behind the push for abortion in the US?
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Jews.
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>>3084621
modern times and turning away from oboslete "christian" """morals"""
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raep
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Stupid questions general 2017-07-15 12:12:56 Post No.3084611
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I see conspiracy theorist shitpost that kabbalah and communism are related.
Can a proponent of this please provide evidence?
I realize the claim probably originates from some dumbshit picture but if there is any validity to it I would like to know.
also feel free to ask any other stupid questions
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Is there any good documentary on U.S Naval fighter planes (specifically Corsair)? I was thinking of reading Boyington's "Baa baa black sheep", but some documentaries wouldn't hurt too.
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Why wouldn't my perfect version of gommunism work
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>>3084619
maybe /k/ can help you
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Historical political cartoons 2017-07-15 11:22:31 Post No.3084514
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Historical political cartoons
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Post old political cartoons
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>>3084514
Not that old but probably can be regarded as historical already.
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Was the city of Carthage just burned and sacked or was the city seriously physically obliterated to the point where there weren't two stones on top of each other left, as some say?
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>>3084426
Probably, there are no buildings from The pre Roman layer afaik
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Well except for The tophet but That's a cemetery/burial ground
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I think it was just burned/sacked but then when the Romans built over it they demolished way more of the foundations than the army did. Though I might be misremembering. Read that "Carthage Must Be Destroyed" book if you want a good detailed account that goes over archaeology and shit.
Why do white people try to claim Ancient Rome, when they were separated by the alps?
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How many times have you been banned for shit-posting threads like this?
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>>3084084
t. White
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>>3084084
This is a legit question.
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Could Pearl Harbor have been prevented?
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>Allowing yourself to be attacked as an excuse to get into a war
>we killed your guys because you wouldn't sell us oil so we could keep killing chinamen bu you knew we were going to kill your guys and since you didn't try to stop us from killing your guys you're the bad guys
>we dindu nuffin
fucking japs, holy shit/
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If the US knew they were to be attacked at Pearl Harbor, why wouldn't they do something to better prepare for it? Instead of letting their enemy get away untouched they could engage them and inflict causilties. The would hurt the capability of Japan to wage war but still have the declaration of war and public outrage they desired.
Or if that wasn't an option they could have tried to do something about the Phillipines so Japan at least wouldn't be able to steamroll all of SEA
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>>3083758
It was actually the Romantic Candlelit Dinner of Nanking, whiteu pig
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Tell me about the Yugoslav wars of the 90's?
Who was wrong? Who was right? Did Serbia deserve to get bombed.
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>Who was right?
Sebia
>Who was wrong?
Everyone else
>Did Serbia deserve to get bombed.
No
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just a balkan chimpout ruining a good thing
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>>3083656
depends who you ask, there really isn't any "good guy" in the balkans because every side hates the others for legitimate reasons
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Who is the single greatest conquer of all time?
I don't really think you can argue against pic related.
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Behold, the great Mongol Empire.
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>>3083503
why didn't they conquer Africa ?
did they fear the African-American warrior?