Why didnt the Austrian-Polish coalition continue to push the Ottomans out of the Balkans after the Siege of Vienna. Would it not have been in their own self interests to fully smash the Ottoman army and establish balkan buffer states, perhaps driving them across the straights altogether?
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>>3371826
they feared the Anatolian warrior
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they feared the TÜRK+BLACK+ALPHA warrior
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just in time for the 334th anniversary of the battle of vienna
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If he a meme king?
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>>3371707
Like Alexander, he inherited a strong state built by his father. He sure was a skilled administrator and commander that put Prussia on the map, but he diplomatically messed up fighting Russia, the Saxons, France, Austria, and occationally the Swedes. Prussia survived that war through a stroke of luck when the Russian Empress died, and Frederick wasn't so keen on warfare after he barely maintained the status quo.
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>>3371707
a meme? not really, he was an excellent administrator and commander who revamped Prussia into a serious power on the continent.
but I will admit it came with a ton of dumb luck, with Russia on the verse of capitulating Prussia out of the Seven Years War, only for the Duke of Holstein to rise to the throne in Russia and make peace when a Russian victory was already guaranteed.
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>>3373133
>who revamped Prussia into a serious power on the continent.
only because he begged Catherine for years to Partition Poland. And when they did, he got the richest provinces
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Other than the cargo cults themselves, what are good examples of "cargo cult thinking" in history?
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>>3371621
>Roman "Empire" was really centralized empire of modern (19-20 century) type.
>Holy Roman "Empire" was really centralized empire of modern type.
>Chinese "Empire" was really centralized empire of modern type.
>Japanese "Empire" was really centralized empire of modern type before 1860.
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anticapitalism
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>>3371621
Black market in Eastern Europe 1948-1989
Convince me to be a Marxist as opposed to being an AnCom.
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>anarcho-something
How do people justify this? Why don't you faggots just call yourselves anarchists? How are you going to enforce your particular ideology, whether it is communism for ancoms, primitivism for anprims or capitalism for ancaps, if there is no state?
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>>3371233
I'd rather convince you to take this thread to /pol/
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>>3371233
Collectivism is authoritarian, leftists cannot be anarchist.
Hahahahahahahahaha
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>>3370408
Sevres should be reimposed on the Ottomans.
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>>3371246
>This would have happened had it not been for that meddling ataturk
REEEEE
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>>3371723
REEE more wh*Te subhuman
we're here for good
Europe's name will be changed to Turkey in 40 years
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Why kill the wife, though? She dindunuffin (I think).
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She was deputy prime minister, and poster girl for romanian science, yet she never had a degree. The bitch was affecting Nicolae and his policies, her sons and rest of his family were high ranking officials (he never trusted anyone not blood related to him.
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>>3370187
She was actually more evil than him if you heard the stories. They both deserved it.
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>>3370207
Quaint. Not only do these two look almost exactly like my grandparents, but you described grandma pretty spot on.
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ITT: Retarded Revisionism from 4chan 2017-09-12 10:48:01 Post No.3370101
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We've all heard some dumbass shit on this website. My question which one is the stupidest that you've personally heard?
Mine would be that the Song Dynasty of China was full of white Aryans, and that the Mongols invaded and genocided them because of that.
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Franks weren't Germanic
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>the Byzantine Empire wasn't the same state as that of the Roman Empire
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>>3370113
That is true though
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How accurate is this map in terms of historical comparisons?
Iron Islands = historical "Kingdom of the Isles." Small, barren isles crawling with raiders and longships. These isles used to belong to the king of Norway. The so-called "Kingdom of the Isles" was made-up of Viking settlers, and alternated between a territory of Norway and being an independent overlordship. The Ironborn are obvious Viking expies.
Vale = Wales. Most of it, anyway. Heavily mountainous region with green valleys.
Dorne = Cornwall/Devon (that area used to be called "West Wales") superficially, Wales in terms of almost everything else. More independent than the rest, separated from rest of the lands by a series of mountains the people call "marches", with lords on the other side of those mountains called "Marcher Lords," and ruled by a prince instead of a lord. A mountainous peninsula with a tiny population relative to how much land it takes up. It's culturally distinct from the rest of England/Westeros, though not too dissimilar. Like Dorne, Wales was attacked by a foreign conqueror who was literally called "the Conqueror", but managed to survive the first invasion unlike most of the rest of the island/continent. Also like Dorne, they were slowly conquered militarily later, but revolts inflicted enough damage that the new conquering dynasty agreed to grant some concessions and "go easy" on it.
Crownlands = London and the surrounding areas. Mostly due to the King's Landing-London comparison. One, London kind of sounds like Landing. Just had to point that out. Two, both are massive cities that were considered overpopulated. Three, London was founded by the Romans and renovated extensively by William the Conqueror, mirroring how King's Landing was founded by the Valyrians and made the capital of Westeros by Aegon the Conqueror. Four, they're both obviously the capitals of their respective kingdoms.
Land of Always Winter = Highlands. Cold, inhospitable, full of clans of Picts/Wildlings.
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>More independent than the rest, separated from rest of the lands by a series of mountains the people call "marches", with lords on the other side of those mountains called "Marcher Lords," and ruled by a prince instead of a lord.
This is literally Wales. Vale sounds more like Yorkshire / Lancashire, a part of the country known for it's numerous vales.
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>>3369704
Fuck off back to whatever containment board you escaped from
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>>3369704
North = Scotland. The independence movement during the WOT5K is reminiscent of the Scottish independence wars of the 14th century, especially since Tywin is clearly based on Edward Longshanks. Many of the traditions of the North are northern English/Scottish inspired, and the presence of mountain clansmen and other 'uncivilized' peoples adds to the parallel. Like Scotland, the North is clan-based, cold, mountainous, and very sparsely populated relative to how big it is. The North takes up about a third of Westeros (not counting the LOAW) yet has maybe 1/7 of the population. Scotland makes about a third of the island of Britain yet only held 1/7 of the population too for most of its history. In the Industrial Age and onward its dropped lower.
Riverlands: north-central England. Fertile and rich lands full of rivers, but lacking natural barriers they're often used as battlegrounds during civil wars and suffer a lot of damage whenever war comes to the continent/island. Their place on the map also roughly corresponds to the core areas of the Danelaw, mirroring how the Riverlands were conquered by the Viking expies of the setting in the backstory. That it also fits relative to where the North and Westerlands are is a happy coincidence.
Westerlands = northwest England, particularly Lancashire. Small and rich hilly region that has always been fairly stable. The names of locations in ASOIAF make this one pretty obvious- the LANNisters of CASTerly Rock are obviously based on the Lancasters, who were based here. One of the Lannister family members, Stafford, also takes his name directly from the modern county of Staffordshire, which is also here.
Reach = middle-south England. Not much to say here; wide open and fertile lands, and among the most densely populated place on the island/continent. The historical Sir James Tyrell hails from here, non-coincidentally.
Stormlands = southeast England, just fits well with everything else being taken.
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Why is Belgium a thing? How did a cohesive Belgian identity develop outside of being French or Dutch?
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Why is any nation a thing?
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Their love of the true faith overcame all obstacles.
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Their identity is "not French!" and muh chocolates
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Let's talk about Hitler 2017-09-12 06:37:59 Post No.3369477
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>be young austrian farmer with above average intelligence
>Dad bitches at you to be a farmer but all you want to do is read and go to art school
>Go to Vienna to art n shit
>Both parents die, sell your families farm to pay for funeral
>Wander around homeless working construction to pay for school
>Fail art school, get told to become an architect instead
>Get conscripted by two Germans to fight in the war
>Get blown up in the war
>Nearly go blind from mustard gas in the war
>Lose your best nut in the war
>Watch all your comrades die in the war
>While in seering pain from the mustard gas after losing your best nut, and awaiting a medic's report to hear if you went permenantly blind
>Find out you fought the war for nothing
>Because you lost
Why wasn't he more angry at the world than he already was?
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>>3369477
At some point he must've also found out (((who))) profited immensely off of that war, too
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>>3369477
He was the son of an Astrian functionary.
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>>3369477
>farmer
>sell farm
In what universe
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Why was half-timbering such a common construction method in late medieval Britain and Germany? 2017-09-12 05:23:08 Post No.3369246
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Why was half-timbering such a common construction method in late medieval Britain and Germany?
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>Building's strength come entirely from wonky, exposed wooden frame
>Gaps between beams are filled with bricks, mortar, and plaster
>Bricks and mortar are heavy and expensive yet do not add to the buildings structural integrity
>Bricks usually have to be laid at weird angles
>Beams will rot and need to be replaced
>Good luck removing a rotten beam without dismantling whole sections of wall
Why not just make the whole building out of lighter, cheaper wood or just use brick and have a structure that will last forever?
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Wasn't it harder to make planks back then because saws were harder to come by? It's fairly easy to cut down trees and hew the wood with axes alone. Sawing the hewn wood would take an additional step.
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>>3369246
they look wonky now centuries later, they didn't fucking chuck up wonky houses, we still use wood to build house frames now
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>>3369246
They still stand don't they?
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Would the conclusion of WW2 have been different in any major way if the UK simply didn't get involved? Seems like it's greatest feats were just surviving until the USA and USSR knocked Germany out.
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>>3368859
Yes, Britain was essential to American involvement. The war would have probably stalled out and ended in a ceasefire once Germany could no longer afford a war in the Soviet Union though.
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>>3368883
>Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
>Germany declares war on America in soldarity
Britain was a non-factor
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>>3368887
Germany would not have allied with Japan if it did not need Japanese navy to tie down Britain.
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Do any of you know where to find images of indian buddhist art? Maybe there is some digital archive or something? I've found a bunch of them googling but usually are of loe quality.
I'm very curious about deities' original indian depiction instead of tibetan ones.
Anyways, I'll be dumping all I've got to keep the thread alive.
Unless stated in the description, AFAIK all the pics are from the Pala dynasty's illustrated manuscripts.
There are several images of unidentified deities, if anybody can identify them I'd also appreciate it.
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Green Tara
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Chinnamunda
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Unknown.
The flower, colors, gestures, etc make me think it's Avalokitesvara
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Claim your rightful clay.
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The World
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Wrong. This is France's rightful territory.
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Are this Belgian and this Danish guy right?
Did the Congolese chop each others hands themselves?
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Do not try to treat this board as /pol/ with dates.
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>>3368211
I didnt mention any date tho
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>>3368196
>introduce inhuman perverse incentives
>claim innocence when it turns into hell on earth even though you did nothing to prevent it and everything to encourage it